Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. The YouTube Video describes the feature and the official blog post will tell you how it works. You can customize the search results page too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

re working with???something Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

The beauty of it is that the work I've been doing with my large non-profit can be translated to even the smallest message. 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. Test for What Works. Track Referrals and Traffic Trends.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2009

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? Does it seem to be working for them or do you think you can do it better?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. The first perspective we heard was that folks are sharing via email because it works best. On the call, it was noted "We trust someone who we know to summarize but to scale it won't work because you loose trust. a social searching program called lejit.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

The speakers include: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. See the full alert here. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. You will instantly be able to see what's working and what needs to be tweaked. emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook. tweeting your site on Twitter. sharing your site on LinkedIn. listening to audio. watching videos. downloading PDFs.

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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. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. Failure is imminent if you don’t learn how to master this skill. I don’t say that to scare you, but to motivate you.

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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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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). A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. Participants who enter here can win a Playstation 3 from Dixons and have their ??1 Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I'm going to start the session with an overview of ROI thinking - mostly making the point about how measurement is more than math, but how it can help you figure out what is and what isn't working in social media.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg. 

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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. So, will make it easier for us to find and retrieve information we need to do our work? Will be efficient? And if you???re

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

In this context I'd say "idea discovery", or "policy discovery" is enhanced by having that content get picked up and commented on, cut-n-pasted into blog posts, snippets linked to from course curricula, woven into other people's work, etc. with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Do other organizations that work on the same issues have a presence? Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services. Who set them up? .

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

As someone who currently works in Corporate Online Marketing at New Media Strategies, but has a history of working in politics and non-profits, I often see a big discrepancy how the private sector reacts to an online crisis versus the public sector. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Through these simple steps and reviewing Savvy Social Media Webinar you will be armed with the tools and resources needed to create your next social media strategy with confidence. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

She shared insights into the inner workings, vision, and future of Causes, along with best practices, success stories and sneak preview of now launched custom Facebook tabs. More on how it works. He currently works at HopeLab and organizes the Black Rock City Farmers Market with his beautiful wife. Over and over again.

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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 ). Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Back in the early days of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

It has nothing to do with the tools, have you avoided getting distracted from your to do list or work flow or too much multi-tasking-- social media can be ADD producing. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools. 5 hours per week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

We don't have to personally attack other people to show the problem as evil (although at times, it has undeniably worked). It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. Villains should feel evil in your story but that doesn't mean you have to vilify your opposition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blogs can help you work faster. 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 give you the press you seek.

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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. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room.

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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. Idealist.org doesn't just aggregate existing information and resources, they also produce new content and research for those working in the nonprofit sector.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blogs can help you work faster. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

I'm sure it will work out just fine. It doesn't work that way. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. The only remaining control is the illusion of control. You can avoid having a conversation. You can even pretend the conversations aren't happening elsewhere. Lose control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

I pulled these metrics from a tool called Postrank that uses a model called the " 5 C's of Engagement " in some email back and forth with Melanie Baker, the community manager for Post Rank, Sue Waters and I asked her if she could unpack the 5s a bit further and tell us a little bit about how it worked.  Should also note, re.

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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.

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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. This particular video, was it produced by staff in-house or did you work with a videographer/production company? How much time did it take?

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