Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2009

How do you show that this new technology is something worth the staff time invested? If you are interested in implementing a social media program (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg) but are unsure how to measure the impact or know what success looks like, attend this free TechSoup Talks webinar on Thursday, August 13, 10 a.m.

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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. I know they'd suck up too much time. digg social news. While I have accounts with StumbleUpon and Reddit, I rarely use them. That's cool.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning takes time, but it’s something that you can start to pick up very quickly and with daily or weekly work you’ll become effective in no time at all. Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. www.digg.com.

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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. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

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. Allows you to see engagement trends over time. Daniel Brigida who heads up their social media likes to use Greasemonkey script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

How does he configure it to save time? How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? Interview with Scoble where he answers these questions: Which RSS reader does he use and why? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

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 becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

You will now receive all of your information concerning your reports in real-time streaming, a feature many of us have been waiting on for years. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. If so, get ready for a new, redesigned version that is packed with some great features and analytics. emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I admit I drank the kool-aid for quite some time, but came to my senses around 2004 or so and now I'm more of a "right tool for the job" kind of gal. once which was a trip. It's "my thing." I'm a Mac fan, but not a fanatic.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I admit I drank the kool-aid for quite some time, but came to my senses around 2004 or so and now I'm more of a "right tool for the job" kind of gal. once which was a trip. I'm a Mac fan, but not a fanatic.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Flickr Photo: mfilej I've spent most of the last three months on airplanes, so I'm a little behind the times here, but I still want to talk a bit about a report released this Fall, "When Did We Start Trusting Strangers?" Whether it's Twitter or Digg or Facebook or LinkedIn, it's about those relationships.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 Time: 10:30 PDT, 1:30. Search engines keep improving, sometimes imperceptibly, but my money's on social search. We'll find. the Google Reader Sharing.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name. Word of mouth, etc. Brand Your Issue.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog. Here's one visualizing the recession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

  Jonathan will focus on using Digg.  I suspect we may have several different types of people in our session: metrics measurement geeks in nonprofits and government - it's their full-time job. .  Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success. 

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Media outlets both online and offline.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). If you don’t have the capacity to actively engage elsewhere, then don’t – its takes time and some effort to get results. You don’t have much to lose except a little bit of your time. Examples of niche social networks include: . What are the drawbacks? .

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Each network will have a different peak impression time so be sure to schedule posts for when your content is most likely to be seen. If you haven’t already, it is time to come to terms with the idea of paying your best social channels for premium visibility. Make it personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

The NonProfit Times has an e-newsletter. This came just in the nick of time as I'm remixing my Web 2.0 So, I am thinking about some of the advice in that Nonprofit Times article on how to do this. We don't have to personally attack other people to show the problem as evil (although at times, it has undeniably worked).

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

Keep your ear to the ground at all times. 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. Before creating a reactive strategy, you must have a proactive strategy so that nothing comes as a surprise.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati.

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

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I am willing to bet just about anyone that has worked in the nonprofit sector for a notable amount of time has benefited from the work of Idealist.org. Every time I come back to their site, I find something new. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. Author: Corey Pudhorodsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

This diagram, credited to the “ New York Times via Ed Philp ,” (original source ) illustrates the flow of comments on a blog. But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. 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 you reach more people. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

They'll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time. Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". letting people do whatever they want,” Mr. Nye said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

The importance of monitoring in real time and demonstrating what's working through active listening and continually taking the temperature. Don't have the time to read the entire book cover-to-cover today, but I have a long flight to California on Sunday, this book is high priority plane reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Now feed-based PostRank doesn't rank new posts against ALL past posts back to the beginning of your blog, but it analyzes back a ways based on time frame and posting frequency (among other things). We also check for metrics for existing posts for a set length of time. (We've since it won't have any engagement yet.

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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

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. How much time did it take? It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular. Taping and interviews were done by a staff person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can help you reach more people. As an excerpt in your e-newsletter, and clicking through to read the rest.

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