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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

Care2

The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience. Great question.

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The more things change …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. keyword to use. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. How can they enhance or support? lots to ponder here.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. " (which you'll recognize on Twitter by the use of the hash or # symbol prior to the tag).

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail. The First C: Content.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Ugliest MySpace Pages

See3

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big. First a little background.

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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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