NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Here are a few ideas for you: Keywords you use on your website or in your analytics. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. Here are some steps to get you started listening … 30 minutes or less, I promise. Step One: Determine what you should be listening for. Mentions of your organization. Products you sell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

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. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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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. Disclosure: Forum One built the site.): Our favorite story was about Greenhour.org shared by Danielle.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Don’t focus on the tool : Some of the worst-designed websites have some of the most effective and vibrant communities. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2008

As you might suspect, user ratings and reviews on websites matter more than they ever have in terms of influencing consumer behavior. Whether it's Twitter or Digg or Facebook or LinkedIn, it's about those relationships. " (Search for that title on the Universal McCann site.). It's a bit of a misnomer. It's about friends. .

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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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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

For about 2 years I worked first as a writer, and then as Managing Editor of Web Worker Daily , a wonderful website devoted to teleworking in the digital connected age. 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'm in the DC area once or month or so. once which was a trip.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

For about 2 years I worked first as a writer, and then as Managing Editor of Web Worker Daily , a wonderful website devoted to teleworking in the digital connected age. 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'm in the DC area once or month or so.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Website visitors, one-time donors, lapsed donors, and those who open emails but don’t give should be some of your targets. Create an ambassador portal on your website or start a Facebook Group specifically for ambassadors of your institution and use messager to stay in touch.

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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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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

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. It is essential not only to read the blogs and websites of the influencers in your community, but also become a frequent commenter. Don’t be a lurker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you're writing an e-newsletter, you can point back to the original blog posts, which will also drive traffic back to your organization's website. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

If you're writing an e-newsletter, you can point back to the original blog posts, which will also drive traffic back to your organization's website. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. If the thought of what ranks as worthy of bookmarking is daunting, a great way to get started using social bookmarking sites is to tag content on your organization's website so that others may find you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Who owns the website? They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Few results. Many of the same questions are being asked. Will people give online? Will people give through Facebook? How can we use email? How can we use Twitter? Who owns the blog? Don't repeat the same mistakes.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. How about Digg ? But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Our website shows feed-based, folder view in Google Reader with our extension installed shows thematic, as an example -- thematic is comparing the posts of all feeds you've added to a specific folder against each other. So trackbacks and comments get more weight than clicks and views. Should also note, re.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. How about Digg ? But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Banding together with organizations, either regionally or ideologically close, is a very powerful way to drive the development of new applications or features for community websites. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. Takeaway: Ensure your website has sharing functionality integrated for easy social sharing, such as those offered by free services, such as ShareThis or AddThis. clicks and 1.7

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

His advice was; keep the video relatively short (under about 4 minutes); don’t just talk at a camera; if posting on Youtube, make sure the description is compelling; use many different video websites (digg, reddit, youtube, dogooder, myspace, bliptv) to host your video so that lots of different people see it; and develop relationships with bloggers (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Laura Quinn at Idealware has been offering Webinars and I will be joining her " Introduction to Website Analytics " on Thursday, September 27th 1:00 - 2:30 EST. You can register here. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Click through for larger image. NEW SEMINAR! What are visitors doing when they get there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. is an attitude , not a download.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

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. It is essential not only to read the blogs and websites of the influencers in your community, but also become a frequent commenter. Don’t be a lurker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

era websites. I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr. I expect it isn???t t always going to be a ???build stickiness???

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Open allows nonprofits to capture more rich data such as constituents interactivity with the Website, not just their name and address. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

I'm not suggesting we publish our home addresses on museum websites. I AM suggesting that we publish complete staff directories with phone numbers and email addresses on websites. Frank doesn't give people some office address behind a generic business name--you are writing to a real person at a real house.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks. The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

For instance, you can embed a widget on your website, or you can utilize an existing fan page. 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. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. Stats are better for long term trends or very short events (like measuring a "digg effect" or getting Tech Crunched). What is the visual metaphor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We had links to the Visible Government website, and generated enquiries there. 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. The website was pretty blunt about donations.

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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 Of the people that friend them, 29% found their page via search, and 13% came from their website. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. And so slightly traffic came tapping, tapping on my website door, I used listening to confirm I saw it - then I recorded to be sure.

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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. Here’s how it works: Users (free to join) submit websites, blog posts, videos, etc. to Digg that they think are awesome. The unique function Digg provides is the popularity contest. There sure is. Well… somewhat.

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