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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". They've recently announced a Myspace platform, with structures and capabilities strikingly like those of it's rival. The new developer platform.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Don't use the same thinking, structures, or processes as you did with Web 1.0. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. How can we use email? How can we use Twitter? Who owns the website? Who owns the blog? I've seen this movie before and you probably have too. not revolutionary.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Look forward. Look backward. Ask what if? Williambrook mentions a plugin to follow your comments. " So, maybe it looks like this?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

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The LinkedIn platform isn’t structured exactly to support direct fundraising, and I think people don’t necessarily appreciate when you don’t respect the medium. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon.

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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. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? applications have changed the rules of online community.

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What lies beneath?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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