Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

We could imagine just about any non-profit with a lightly visited website and little dedicated social media support being able to pull off the same sort of results. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. .): Our favorite story was about Greenhour.org shared by Danielle. They actively engaged the site?s

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

On MoreBirthdays.com, people can support, give, and celebrate surviving cancer or loved ones by creating a birthday wish through e-cards, music video, or musician phone call. ” Friends and strangers then pledge to support the project; pledges will only be received if the project reaches the tipping point. More on how it works.

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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. Blogs can help your supporters and potential supporters get to know and trust you. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. What is Earned Media? Tweets on Twitter.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. 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

JUNE 30, 2009

Ask questions about the total relationship with the supporter now. The other important aspect is that social media represents a cost effective way to engage potential new supporters in large numbers compared to traditional channels. And it is the lingua franca for dealing with Generation Y and younger-minded supporters.

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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. Blogs can help your supporters and potential supporters get to know and trust you. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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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

MARCH 6, 2007

I also found this bit extremely important - the whole that actually talks about tagging in the context of "wisdom of crowds" - so what are the differences between, say, tagging and collaborative filtering with digg. How can they enhance or support? VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. lots to ponder here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. The campaign.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To ensure that resource is available for future job posters and seekers in the nonprofit sector, we must support Idealist.org now. 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]. Pass it on to your friends, coworkers, and other organizations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. 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. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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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. It's the wisdom of a Technology Steward.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. 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. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts. community was built around a series of videos Amber Lee Ettinger made to support Obama’s campaign. by asking its supporters to send pink panties to the Sri Ram Sena as Valentine’s Day gifts. The Obama Girl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

What advice would you give to your supporters so they are successful in a group fundraising campaign? So, how do you give your supporters the freedom to run with it while ensuring that it won't backfire? Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. What do I need to think about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. 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. Source: Skelliewag. Look forward. Look backward. Ask what if?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

" You can use the site to find others to help you get something done -- folks have used the site for a wide variety of projects, all needing broad support to actually work. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us.

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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. million to support a project based on feedback from the online community. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

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. Justin says “there are cheaper ways to acquire email addresses.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The best way to think of it as taking a little chunk of your marketing plan that supports your marketing goals, but incorporates social media. You don’t want to create an extra program or extra work, it has to support your existing marketing goals. The key benefit is that drives traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs. " and tells exactly why.

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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. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. They don't talk much about trusting their teacher's information; instead, they focus on teachers' willingness to engage and support them as learners. But here's the problem. I don't entirely trust these reports. It's very relational.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

At this month's packed Online Community Meetup (also referred to as #OCTribe), Jen Burton , director of Community and Support at Causes.com , spoke about Facebook's largest fundraising platform and its role in supporting nonprofits. Nonprofit Support. Causes also offers dedicated nonprofit support.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

She launched the month-long campaign with a goal of $40,000, again to support DonorsChoose.org. He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. A year later, Sarah Bunting announced. that it was time to do it again. Not the head shaving, she selected another type of public humiliation. Gary Vaynerchuk.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Carie 24 Oct 2007 Kathleen Hello, Thank you for supporting Oxfam America! People can also support the cause by sending a fun and free e-card to their friends from [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

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. This made it easy for people to support us and spread the word. Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

community managers do, what behaviors and visitors they want to support and which rules will make those people feel most at home in the institution. There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. Museums should consider, as Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

So there I was, sitting lonely needing support, but thinking only, For Social media change we needed to move past communication days of yore. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream".

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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. If the suggestions are ignored because they don't carry the weight of many visitors' desires, why not let others add their vote and support to their priorities?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. Other users do the same, and or check out these new “diggs” on the site via connections they have to other members, interest areas, or general browsing. There sure is. Well… somewhat.

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