NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. digg social news. Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and determining the plot arc by deciding which page to turn to. Goal: To understand how to use blogging and video blogging tools to strategically tell your organization’s story or get others to share the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. Ivan's story adds an excellent example to accompany these resource links. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

First off, if you are a slideshow fan, you will no doubt recongize this style of storying telling. When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re doing offline.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Tips, tools and stories from the trenches from three people who focus on online engagement and have more links, friends and followers than some small countries have citizens.   I've done it with a lot of story telling and loads of humor.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Also, when appropriate tailor your pitches to broader topics that are generating news and frame your story in a similar context. Make sure that the stories you are sharing or pitching are: Media outlets both online and offline. Photo sharing sites like Flickr.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post. Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Also, I wanted to lay this out in a sequential manner -- obviously you're not going to stop listening once you begin sharing your story. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. And for spreading buzz for that matter).

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Our favorite story was about Greenhour.org shared by Danielle. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. Disclosure: Forum One built the site.):

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. I know you and you know her and i connect to you, I can be connected to her. s 35 innovators under the age of 35.

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Care2

APRIL 13, 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. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This story is the fundraising equivalent of the bikini-clad woman in the Slimfast ad - a special success story. The numbers don't tell the whole story. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. What stands out to me is stories.

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AFP Blog

MAY 14, 2008

It’s likely that you Digg stories and even possible that you Twitter. 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. There’s a good chance you belong to social networks like Facebook or MySpace. NPtech NPBlogs.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about?

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

She shared insights into the inner workings, vision, and future of Causes, along with best practices, success stories and sneak preview of now launched custom Facebook tabs. Jen recently spoke at TechSoup’s Online Community Meetup. Make sure to read the full recap on the TechSoup blog.). She loves interacting with communities online.

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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 ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. 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

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. If any picked up on the story of the campaign, an email was sent to our activist list in Texas with a campaign update, a link to You Tube and a mention of the news coverage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Rather than crossing your fingers that a reporter will cover a story about your work, blogs can help you create your own coverage. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". “We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” 3) MSNBC meanwhile ran a report that it had purchased social news site Newsvine.

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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. Rather than crossing your fingers that a reporter will cover a story about your work, blogs can help you create your own coverage. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post.

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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. . It also refers to the reach of your content/story - the process of spreading word-of-mouth referrals or sparking new and related conversation threads.

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Care2

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

It is a story about a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ant worked hard to store up food for winter. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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See3

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). He said it’s important to start with stories and to have a strong call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling. Others suggest that numbers alone don't tell the story. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. What do you think?

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Care2

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Third, a pledge called " Bakul-Library " is definitely one of my favorite stories. 2) Tell a story. Pledges always work best when potential pledge signers can identify with the story behind the pledge. It's a great example of loads of people pitching in what they have to create something useful to an entire community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. . * Continue to talk about the fundraiser in multiple posts, updating and describing the cause or event.

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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. Online/Offline and Open/Closed Content A story in CIO talks about how the Internet has boosted employee productivity and points to Pew Research that shows that the boundary that existed in people???s Some reflections about the newest web2.0

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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. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Your friend who tells fascinating, colorful stories may not be the person you turn to for the straight dope. You may remember the NPR stories in 2007 about changes in the way that doctors acknowledge mistakes and offer apologies. You can't be equally committed to both. There are trade-offs to each of these. Be honest about mistakes.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

First, here’s a news story and infographic. It demonstrates who uses the biggest social media tools – the gender, age, education and income of the people who engage with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Digg and LinkedIn pages. Today I sahre with you to sources detailing it.

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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. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s One of our foremost social media strategies is to try to link to and promote as many stories as possible outside of our own site.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

This gives people a chance to get their story out, and has a huge effect on engagement. 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. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg. Sneak Peaks. Fan Page tab integration.

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