NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? If it’s out there Google will probably find it. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Anyone interested in nonprofits and fundraising online is welcome to participate in this interactive chat, sharing questions and tips from the field. On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.” The Guest Speakers for NPLive: Fundraising.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Here are a few tips to make sure the online landscape is your friend, not your foe, even when facing a PR crisis: 1. 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. Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Beth Kanter tipped us to this flowchart on how to respond to blog posts about your organization. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats." It's also a great segue.

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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.   Jonathan will focus on using Digg.  And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

As the article Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging suggests, "be a lemming" and follow what others are doing which can also help you discover more specialized, niche tags. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

He gave a series of tips that will help video become popular, but stressed the fact that some videos will never go viral.

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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 [.] 25 May 2007 Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Take a look.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. 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. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity. Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I pick up some tips and tricks, but I had a strong urge for "Practitioner Worksheets" which made set up this spreadsheet. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . The chapter is a great overview for the C-Level suite.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Pinterest and Flipboard are for bookmarking and content sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. 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. Some excellent tips: 1.) Look forward.

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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. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise. Which one worked best? Alternative Approaches. Digidave of Spot.Us

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. 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). This is something anyone studying the space knows.

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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? Tips for Using Your Social Networking Presence for Professional Networking. 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. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Whether your thinking about getting a presence on a large social networking platform like facebook or myspace or a more focused network on ning, Green Media Toolshed tells us why your group should be on a social networking site and some tips - both posts live blogged notes from the New Organizing Institute. New (to me) Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. You can find more stories and lots of tips and resources in the WeAreMedia Listening Module and really basic primer from the NTEN Social Media Newsletter. #4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks!

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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. Also see the Top Ten Flickr API Hacks and Top Ten Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. The Donor Blog condenses it into two ways ! and asking for ideas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Causes is a.com and not a.org, so it does work to generate profit, mostly from advertising, sponsorship, and user-driven "tips." 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. Q&A Session with Jen Burton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

While written from a business or commercial perspective, Eric Enge has an article called " 9 Ways to Make Money on Analytics " which includes tips and suggestions for thinking about how the data can help you think through improvements that may lead to more donations or revenue. The WebMeterics Guru Blog. Social Media Measurement.

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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. As a victim of a "twitterstorm", I have a few survival tips. I talked about the importance of finding influencers at the first step and shared a few tips and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

We're not going to debate: Google Reader Stats Are Bullshit - but if you want some tips on how to do that, see Avinash Kaushik's Convert Data Skeptics). Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Life was good. Avinash suggested Technorati.

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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 6 Jun 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

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". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Till I found myself crying `Wow this is much easier than before -. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Hat Tip Stephen Downes. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. BTW, a huge big hat tip to Connie Reece who pointed me to the notes from her session on social networking at Blog Orlando awhile back.). (4) Photo by Leppre. Got drunk together at conference, messed around, not sure how far it went. - s face it, I don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. It means antenna of an ant.

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