Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Twitter Search - shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don't use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately). Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Tweetmeme - tells you the most popular tweets about a subject. Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This breakdown of data will let you determine just how successful and engaging portions of your website are, and determine how people got to each particular page--was it a google search? tweeting your site on Twitter. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. A link from a blog post? traffic source, campaign, browser). commenting.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Examples of niche social networks include: .

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

that will search through blog comments for mentions. In other words, it helps you discover if anyone is talking about you in the comments. When I teach workshops for nonprofits about listening with free tools , it's one of the half dozen basic tools that should be included in the tool box. It searches for links on Twitter.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. 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. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. When someone emails it to them.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links. s community using Twitter. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. They actively engaged the site?s Finally, she submitted the site?s The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. As an excerpt in your e-newsletter, and clicking through to read the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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. Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. Recently, I read about twitter squatters.(Remember Who set them up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This idea came to me from Twitter. One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. And, if nothing else, Twitter can be a terrific muse and stimulate creative thinking.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Right now its Twitter and Facebook; five or six years ago it was "viral Flash movies."

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

2) Search is Still King. Although social sharing accounts for 31% of website traffic, search engine referrals account for almost twice as much, or over 50% of all website referrals. Takeaway: Ensure your nonprofit website is optimized for Search Engines. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network. clicks and 1.7 5) More is More.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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JULY 15, 2008

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It’s called the #CommBuild chat and was born out of a facilitated monthly Twitter chat called #4change. You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. You can “scoop” content (add it to your topic page) from the Scoop.it I think Scoop.it

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. Google Blog Search. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Eight social media tracking tools: Act.ly: New tool to launch petitions on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s nearly identical to organic search traffic ??? t exactly home runs ???

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Twitter at @Scav. A: I wish our search was better. Search is hard. on Facebook and search for organizations, causes, and charities related to specific terms. [Jen I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. But it’s important to realize the differences between a short-term campaign (minimal upfront work, strong word of mouth, modest goals, and real-time virality through Twitter) and a longer one. What worked?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Get them on Facebook and Twitter. This started a twitter hashtag #squirrel. Be proactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

I'm writing this post for the benefit of our "Twitter Backchannel Moderators" who will be live tweeting the panel and posting these URLs to Twitter. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? Opinions about Twitter are divided. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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