Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

  I've decided rather than show how wonderful and perfect everything is - I'm going to drill down on how metrics can really help you improve results if you're not getting them at first and how to determine the return on investment.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg. 

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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. comments??? content creation??? ???It's

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Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). If you don’t have the capacity to actively engage elsewhere, then don’t – its takes time and some effort to get results. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

He has, however, expressed concern in the recent past about the way the term has been mis-applied and his definition, taken from a recent blog posting, attempted to clarify some of the issues: Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrival [sic]. Vander Wal, 2005).

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Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. For the best results, target your most engaged and well-connected supports first as they will have a higher propensity to respond to calls-to-action and get others involved. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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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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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.

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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 ). The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Few results. 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. Lots of new vendors. Lots of tools. Few experts. Few owners. Many of the same questions are being asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. First, let me repeat the caveat that my smart colleague, Katya Andresen points out: These results are not typical. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. Why was it a success?

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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 27, 2007

We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. What were results? How did the idea of using YouTube to message about your organization come about? Taping and interviews were done in less than 24 hours. What were the goals?

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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. Also, if you are writing about the same topics repeatedly on your blog, when a reporter is searching online for an expert on your issue, your posts may come up at the top of their search results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

As KD Paine said on our SXSW ROI Poetry Slam , "You have engagement fully measured, now calculate the resulting treasure!". Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . For nonprofits, that tracking donations from social media engagement. We know that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

The ROI on the other hand is about revenue - did your effort yield results? Measuring Your Blog's Results (Revisiting). Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. How does it inform your strategy, improve your content/program, or get results? Some people call this continuous improvement. Was it worth it?

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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). In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info. Again, what are your goals. Another Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. The message is really important and it has to focus on why you are passionate about the cause and the results of raising the money. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. 16 AM) over the last two days. What do I need to think about?

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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

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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MAY 28, 2009

When this happens, the community rarely benefits from the resulting application. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. The first is often overlooked in favor of the more exciting second step. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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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. 6 Hours per week x number of weeks = results The point is that social media takes time to see results and there isn't instant gratification.

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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. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.)

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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. Monitor the Results. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

What are the results? I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr. Are there other experiments going on? Anonymous Blogging.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The result is a rapid boom and bust cycle that conveys the worst of "next big thing" mania. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. Toy stores have their toy of the year; Web 2.0 has its hot app of the moment.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. FL: What else can we expect to see as a result of Convios Open initiative? If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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MAY 3, 2011

Case studies have shown surprising results. Another case study, this time with Trees, Water and People , showed similar results. " The end result, though, is a singular focus on investing in nonprofits. I was most recently at Digg. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? So each time we complete a major effort on these social media venues, we measure our results and report back on our progress. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s

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JULY 2, 2009

However, it’s important to note that none of them are 100% at measuring results. The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. Lets dig in. Its definitely worth mentioning in this post.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.) But we'll only get there if we join Brooklyn in the lab and start our own experiments to test the hypotheses, measure the results, and find out what clicks. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The method by which this tool monitors traffic results in lower numbers (such as fewer visitors, and fewer page views) than some other methods. This is an important metric if, for example, you're using GoogleAdsWords, which pays based on a percentage of page views which result in a click through for an ad is what pays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter. Is that how we measure social impact now? One final thing; the post also tars all non-profits with the same brush, ignoring huge amounts of innovative work with web 2.0 and social media.

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MAY 27, 2010

You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. The results. We also have several conversations with the press underway as a result of the campaign. We set the right kinds of goals up front.

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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 Oxfam ran a campaign against Starbucks with a video being crucial to the resulting success. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

But define some terms first: Measurement is the process of determining the result of a strategy (source: J. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Metrics are the attributes or factors that are important to understand (source: J.Owyang ).

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