Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content. re doing offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Interview with Scoble where he answers these questions: Which RSS reader does he use and why? How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? How does he configure it to save time? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

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. We have been pretty happy with Collactive so far; if anyone has any questions about these campaigns I'd be happy to relate our experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. Nick asked the question. Now, I have some questions. I replied by email with a cc to Michele. I saw this on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm going to riff on Ivan's advice, " You Don't Have To Be Everywhere" (like Mastercard) After an organization has identified an audience, objective, and strategy, a question that often comes up: What social networks should we establish our presence on? But, it isn't a black and white question in my mind.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts. The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. My response to the question: are we moving on from traditional social networking? s 35 innovators under the age of 35.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

  Jonathan will focus on using Digg.     So, if you are attending E-Metrics or were going to attend and come to our session, what would your burning question be? .  Laura and Jonathan will be sharing awesome case studies based on their experience. 

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MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. The fact that this question was only asked after groups of services and not after individual services produced what seem to be unreliable results. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

rest of the session will be discussion/questions). It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. These are all on the on the topic of Web2.0 tools and fund raising. For BlogHer, I'm on a panel with Britt Bravo and I have to present the widget fundraising case study in ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Many of the same questions are being asked. Ask questions about the total relationship with the supporter now. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Déjà Vu All Over Again Web 2.0 in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Lots of talk. Lots of uncertainty. Lots of buzzword bingo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The conversation brought out some interesting questions, so I summarized and added my thoughts in a follow up post called " How Do You Define Creative Commons Attribution?". That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

A helpful question to ask is, "who is this content intended for?" Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. Individuals who are new to tagging might find themselves asking what tags are best to use for their content.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Nonprofit Organization libraries : The Nonprofit FAQ answers common questions that organizations run into and there are resources for all kinds of staff from webmasters to volunteer managers. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. You can make a donation and read the full letter from Ami at the following link: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. John left this comment/question : If many people and nonprofits adopted this method of fundraising would it flood the market and become less effective? Here's the report. What's Next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Reply to every (rational) question. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? " Here's some questions to ask yourself as you star at the blank comment form: What did they say well? Answer questions. Update: While routing around the FriendFeed ProBlogger Room , I noticed that this question: ???I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

freakishly high, we do analyze for things like the digg/slashdot effect, so if one post in someone's blog gets a really unusually high amount of engagement compared to the norm, we don't allow that to completely skew the analysis afterwards, e.g. "dooming" the next bunch of posts to a PostRank of 1.0 Should also note, re.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! One reason is that it’s ugly. Take a look. The Facebook news is big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Sometimes clarifying questions. And occassionally, there might be a post where some good soul has summarized the learning from the last time that particular question was asked on the listserv. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group. I'd love to see some workflows shared too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. What do you think?

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Which features are most popular?

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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

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. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video. Here's how you can participate in 10 Questions. Social Bookmarking.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2008

The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why Jon Stahl's link list points to an article called " The Question " - The number-one question lurking in every executive???s Michelle Murrain responds as do others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The question you want to ask yourself, then, is: how can I design a Collaboration based campaign so that it can be used to build a long-term Community? Perhaps, in phase one, you would want to start with a campaign built around Content and focused on Collaboration, with elements of co-creation and/ or collective action.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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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. The question is "When is video a good. ForumOne Communications blog answers the question " How do you engage 5% of your audience that are most important to you ?" Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Use the Rule of Thirds : (1/3 Web + 1/3 One Way + 1/3 Social) = Online Marketing Budget The rule of thirds is not an Einstein theory, it is actually comes to us from the art world.

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