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Digg is Dying. Who are the Players Now?

Care2

Digg, the once beloved link-sharing site that power users were able to game has been dying a slow death over the past couple of years. Since January of 2011 Digg’s unique web visits have declined by more than 50% and gone from 9.4M Sites like Reddit.com have clearly benefitted from Digg’s demise.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

As you’ll see below and in the full research report using social networking tools has a significant impact on fundraising success, but a relatively small portion, slightly over 50%, take advantage of the opportunity. So, how does the use of social networks have such a significant impact on fundraising?

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Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Lean, Mean Blogging Machines | Main | Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad » Friday Nov 10 2006 Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) Friday, November 10, 2006 at 01:37PM | by Mark Source: Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. By: Simon Jackson.

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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Your organization's social networking strategy doesn't have to be like mastercard - you don't have to be everywhere!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps you need to look existing secondary research on demographics and characteristics of users (see this post for some places to start finding free information). You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services.

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The Lurker to Contributor Ratio: Tagging Communities Compared To Other Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. Recent research in this area distinguishes between ???comments??? comments???

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Things We Like (March 2009)

NTEN

was invented to allow physicists to share research papers. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW. How awesome is it? was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats."

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