Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Care2

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. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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APRIL 29, 2009

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

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! My husband is a strategic services consultant for a software company. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. I have been married since 1993.

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APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! My husband is a strategic services consultant for a software company. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. I have been married since 1993.

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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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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. Who set them up? . Do other organizations that work on the same issues have a presence?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Public Service and Graduate Education Resource Center (PSGERC): Articles and help for those considering returning to school for a graduate degree in public service. 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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AFP Blog

MAY 14, 2008

It’s likely that you Digg stories and even possible that you Twitter. These technologies and services, together with a growing number of others, make up the social web. From Sustainablog.Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media : Sustainablog: "f you’re reading this blog, then you’re on board with social media.

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MAY 13, 2011

She’s a native of the great, rainy, Pacific Northwest and has held customer service, product management, marketing and community management roles at some of the internet’s greatest game changers including Amazon, Slide, and Digg. Jen Burton leads the community and support efforts for Causes.com.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence. 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. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The origin of this phrase was a blog post announcing BackType Connect , " a one-stop destination for retrieving comments on just about any topic across a wide variety of blogging platforms and social services." The conversation graph is the mapping of conversations and how they're related across social platforms and blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. 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. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online.

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JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big. First a little background.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

They'll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time. Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". letting people do whatever they want,” Mr. Nye said.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence. 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. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. There are other services: CoComment. Williambrook mentions a plugin to follow your comments. Co.Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. It's key goal is to pair pro bono professional services with nonprofit organizations who need them. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Which one worked best?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

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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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Care2

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. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker. Listen to Jen, she is right. All rights reserved.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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JUNE 7, 2011

However, while this specific number is impressive for a single networking service, I believe nonprofits can gain more from this study by discovery the gems of data that will be found by reading between the lines. Here are some quick takeaways to consider: 1) The Ease of Social Sharing is Important. 2) Search is Still King. clicks and 1.7

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. To create content that is appealing to a certain group of people, you need to know what they’re talking about, what they feel, what they eat, drink and dream. All rights reserved.

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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. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline.

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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. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When Web Sites Become Web Services from the Read/Write Web. 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. Here's a few: Web 3.0:

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. Meaning the lack of knowledge of traditional digital media gets in the way of something that the social media - and service providers related to it - kind of make up for. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

" Causes facilitates these communities and combines them together, though Jen was quick to differentiate them from a software as a service. Lady Gaga teamed up with Causes to donate a million dollars to five different youth services in NYC. I was most recently at Digg. Strengths of the Causes Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

But they need to keep on providing services while they’re doing it. Twitter & Digg? I never said (re-read it) that we should turn over “service sector into a crowd-sourced cyberlibertarian throw of the dice at utopia.”. Wall Street, big insurance, government – now they really hate change. and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Google's customer service supports this product primarily through automated emails, so you may have little recourse if you encounter problems. Stats are better for long term trends or very short events (like measuring a "digg effect" or getting Tech Crunched).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. 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. We didn’t build it all ourselves. This means we didn’t need to code too much.

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