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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. .’ I say everybody can be great because everybody can Twive!”"

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a couple of GTD tips for processing your email and being more efficient from LifeHacker. Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). I told her just to try it and see what happens. Save Yourself Time.

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Social Media Monitoring in 30 Minutes or Less

NetWits

Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips.

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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Most interesting, I thought are the comments on " reputation management " and the role it plays in opening up a process like this. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post.

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Putting the Public Back in PR - New Book from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In other words, that you can monetize the process of engagement. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . It also refers to the reach of your content/story - the process of spreading word-of-mouth referrals or sparking new and related conversation threads.

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