Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Apply your learnings to the next project. I started with very small and modest projects and have used AMORE along with intensive experimentation. It got 189 diggs. I'm going to call it AMORE. Why was it a success?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The site is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit founded in 1995 with a rich history of helping people share resources and information. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. I hope that they will be able to continue to enrich our community which is why I am writing about Idealist.org today.

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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. possibly related classroom projects??? There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia. Which one worked best?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. At some level, every open source project is a community-driven effort. These projects grow and improve only through the coordination and efforts of many individuals, which requires (you guessed it) community-building tools. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" " If you have project that you've been holding in your back pocket, consider adding it! The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. NpTech Talk.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. How about Digg ? But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

It's a project of a nonprofit organization called mySociety , based in the UK. " You can use the site to find others to help you get something done -- folks have used the site for a wide variety of projects, all needing broad support to actually work. those might be. There are loads of uses for the site ???

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. How about Digg ? But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Emily Weinberg from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project ChipIn News Blog CrowdFunding (that is that awesome vlogger Sull) First-of-its-Kind (Peter Dietz - excellent advice on how to go about these campaigns) My Cambodian blogger colleagues have linked or posted about the campaign. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Wendy Harman from the Red Cross gave her case study on Project Listen. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference. Social Housing explores social media. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! Details are here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. Follow the links from here. Who has time for Video?

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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. This article was written by Jen Nedeau, Project Manager at New Media Strategies and blogger. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You'll want to identify easy, simple first projects that flow from your organization’s internet marketing plan. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. The important thing is having the conversation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. There are resources out there--experts, leaders of projects already underway--who can furnish you with stats to serve as arsenal. Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Causes is thoroughly integrated with social media, giving fundraising projects new ways to reach their audiences. She then described her most recent birthday, when she used the Birthday Wish feature to support Project Nightlight. Last month, unbeknownst to Causes, they set up a fundraising project in response to the 2011 quakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Goal: What is your most important organizational, business, program, or project goal? Dave Winer says why rss subscriber numbers alone don't matter and Kaushik has some advice on measuring this. What happens?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. This project might take its toll, but then again it might have soul… Say …. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. Most museum projects that allow visitors to create content only allow for the most basic of prioritization. The choice of what to display on the front page is not just about design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Vladislav Chernyshov , a self-identified geek and masters student at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) in Novosibirsk, Russia and who is currently working on a next generation social network project called Genome identifies five major "burning" problems with social networks. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award. There are almost twenty projects on the nomination list so far from all over the world, including several from developing countries.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. Most museum projects that allow visitors to create content only allow for the most basic of prioritization. The choice of what to display on the front page is not just about design.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? Pope I just stopped by to offer a followup on the Veeker/YouthNoise project, VeekTheVote 2006 that you featured above. November 6, 2006 | Kemble K.

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