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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t know Beth and ignored the request, because I thought it sounded like a scam (I can be pig-headed sometimes). Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. t until Chris Brogan tweeted a request to help that I actually did. Here's the report.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Sounds like an European version of change.org ? The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. Which one worked best?

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. isn't as negative as it sounds. Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.? Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. 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. In other words: try to act as, or at least like, an individual.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

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They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Be an ambassador (as cheesy as that sounds), validate fears, and then assuage them. Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 Pull back the curtain constantly.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

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This may sound obvious, but we all fall victim to featuritis when we get seduced by the idea of live bodies. 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.) They don't want your home address to send you brochures.

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