Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0. This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

We could imagine just about any non-profit with a lightly visited website and little dedicated social media support being able to pull off the same sort of results. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Disclosure: Forum One built the site.): Our favorite story was about Greenhour.org shared by Danielle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I believe a strong society takes care of its citizens, even when there's no profit in it. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I believe a strong society takes care of its citizens, even when there's no profit in it. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. While this technique has been widely used by for-profits for years, nonprofits are now catching on by finding social media ambassadors who are willing to donate their networks and voices to support their causes. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

As someone who currently works in Corporate Online Marketing at New Media Strategies, but has a history of working in politics and non-profits, I often see a big discrepancy how the private sector reacts to an online crisis versus the public sector. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. " Last month I summarized multiple threads about how social networking sites like Facebook can be time wasters for both for-profit and nonprofits. More from the Convio Summit this week.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come. Deadline is March 2n.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? ” This got me thinking about how non-profits can use social networking.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". “We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” 3) MSNBC meanwhile ran a report that it had purchased social news site Newsvine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. It was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise in Dublin in 2005 by serial. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. One of the things Ive noticed as a trend everywhere, but most acutely in the non-profit environment, is an attraction to the new. RSS feeds are your friends.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0 last week he selected his 25 web companies to watch in the near future.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. as a tool and organizational back-end for a local non-profit. First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

This is where I can see great merit in Jim Spadaccini and others work with smaller museums and non-profits, choosing to harness already existing, and already ???sticky??? situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? stickiness??? factor right with their target audiences. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Its great to see the proliferation of APIs in the for-profit world, but what about nonprofits? If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Causes is a.com and not a.org, so it does work to generate profit, mostly from advertising, sponsorship, and user-driven "tips." How does it assist efforts for a for-profit organization to have events to raise money? As a for-profit company, we do have a burn rate. I was most recently at Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

None of them are non-profits. Nick Temple from the UK left a comment on the link I shared on Facebook: It smacks of someone who knows the marketing and internet world very well, and the non-profit world barely. Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. cost your non profit a mint. To them your non profit. Come measure success. word is bond.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Thank you for your support, Kathleen 26 Nov 2007 » Resource Roundup: Social Media, Networks for Non Profits [.] certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. It means antenna of an ant. technologies.

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