Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I need social network analysis software as the back-end to the donation software that tracks who donated because of whom or at least heard about it via one a friend. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. Here's the report.

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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. How did the idea of using YouTube to message about your organization come about? It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Open source software reacts to rapidly changing technology. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Traffic: Suggests partnering with the web team and using analytics software to track the referrals of unique visitors to site from a site. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

One thing he spoke about was mashups with content from other sources, the ability to make "playlists" of tools, and some collaborative filtering or "digg like" features. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, and even crowdsourcing and wikinomics can mean similar or slightly different things depending upon who is using it.

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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. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

In terms of editing, most computers younger than 8 years have some sort of editing software and, again, that is really all you need for most web videos. Most digital cameras today have a movie function and, unless you are planning on making a documentary, that is really all you need.

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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. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. New (to me) Blogs.

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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. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. It is really important to understand how your software tracks unique visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Susie's Blog, winning hearts and minds over to FOSS, points to an interesting article about how to convince management to approve free software. Laura Quinn's resource roundups ( here , here , and here ) always resources not discovered elsewhere. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Perfect Password generator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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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. 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. Strengths of the Causes Network. [Jen

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As web sites got bigger, their log files got bigger and even smarter humans created analytics software that could generate cool reports based on standard metrics like page views, unique visitors, referring sites, pages visited, and time on site, etc (Source: Avinash Kaushik 's "Web Analytics An Hour A Day"). The Web is changing!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Customers' judgments made for more confident, streamlined strategy discussions: Before this, customers' ideas had fallen like snowflakes, enveloping the development process in an undifferentiated blanket of suggestions.

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