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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

Have Fun • Do Good: Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us - "You cannot run a community if you're not informed. It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times."

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Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It

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Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Think about it. When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted?

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Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name. ” Think about it. Word of mouth, etc.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Many social media practitioners who are from a marketing or public relations background are focused on creating conversations.

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Lean, Mean Blogging Machines - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Well report back in a few days.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!" Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience. David James is the only slate that uses "underdogs" as a criteria for narrowing down the choices to ten.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. public information??? Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations.