Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits. While I have accounts with StumbleUpon and Reddit, I rarely use them. Tags: NPTech stumbleupon idealistnews.org idealist.org reddit web2.0 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. MORE
Between Digg’s redesign, Founder Kevin Rose leaving the company, and other dud product launches like Newswire , Digg just can’t compete with other social networks where people go to share news these days – Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google+, Care2, etc. MORE
Thanks to everyone who voted for our submission in Reddit's FeedANeed.org contest and has donated to our $20.09 This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. MORE
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in my blog about the entry of Social Actions/Change the Web in Reddit's Feed A Need contest. This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. As the days wore on, and the contest gained momentum, our team remained cautiously optimistic that a win could be clinched. MORE
Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Did you know there are now over 2.3 billion active social media users? As usage numbers continue to grow across all age groups, it is safe to say that social media has become an essential element of digital marketing. MORE
Twitter and Facebook are still the two most used outlets, but other spheres, such as Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and more are gaining more ground every day. Image courtesy of DoJiggy. The holiday season is meant for giving. MORE
Well, several social media sites like HootSuite , SCVNGR , Reddit , Quora and Foursquare use Amazon’s services to host their content. Yesterday, Amazon had a server problem for their cloud-based clients. You can read more about it here. What does that have to do with social media? MORE
Reddit, Instagram, and Snapchat may someday have their day in the sun, but as far as Congress is concerned, Facebook is king and Twitter is the crown prince. Social Media is an aspect of technology that has been more enticing, faster-moving, more powerful, and more fickle than any other mode of communication—an almost daily topic here on npENGAGE, and one that nonprofit grassroots activists are constantly trying to harness. MORE
Reddit Blog :: reddit.com/r/blog. Reddit. The nonprofit sector has a large community of technology bloggers committed to helping nonprofits stay current on emerging trends in social media, online fundraising, and mobile technology. MORE
Speakers at the rally included Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, technology thinker Clay Shirkey and others from the city’s tech startup world. This afternoon, our friends at The New York Tech Meetup took the protest against wide-ranging anti-piracy bills to the streets of Manhattan. MORE
We can use these methods to collect data in real-time and analyze them to see the relative rise of your campaign message vis a vis other message frames on Twitter, Facebook Pages, forums (like reddit), Instagram and tumblr. In a world where everyone is their own publisher on social media, the conventional wisdom that “content is king” is simply incomplete. MORE
Tumblr, Reddit, Engine Advocacy, the Center for Rights, and other of our customers gave their users the power to more directly petition their legislators. As Reddit writes , “One day of organized protest turned Congress completely on its head.” MORE
Users on Reddit also crowdsourced ideas to draft new Internet legislation in place of SOPA. Our desire to reach people wherever they are any time of day has radically changed the way we communicate with constituents, colleagues, and friends in the last decade. MORE
The referral traffic came from Reddit. So What? The news piece that was on the top of the Reddit site was about the server outages for major online services. The comments were discussing what people did when Reddit was done. MORE
About 27% of memes orginated on websites and 14% on Reddit. Telling a good story is important to moving people into action. Amy Sample Ward and I talk about this in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , which is coming out next month. MORE
Easier to determine–and something I can now instruct you to do for yourself–is to learn the difference between Digg , Reddit , Facebook , Twitter , and StumbleUpon. After all, it takes work to gain the status you need on a site like Digg or Reddit to get your submissions noticed. People who submit links to Digg, Reddit, or one of the other commonly used social networks likely already have a method of doing this, and an icon on your pages is unlikely to help them do so. MORE
The Charity Social 100 Index | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : Voluntary sector blog banner The Charity Social 100 Index Charities need to develop more effective social strategies for a cash-strapped age reddit this Comments (2) Anne McCrossan and Steve Bridger Guardian Professional, Monday 19 September 2011 04.30 MORE
The Charity Social 100 Index | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : Voluntary sector blog banner The Charity Social 100 Index Charities need to develop more effective social strategies for a cash-strapped age reddit this Comments (2) Anne McCrossan and Steve Bridger Guardian Professional, Monday 19 September 2011 04.30 MORE
The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The Reddit fundraising challenge that raised almost $60,000. The Atheist, Christian, and Islam subgroups of Reddit , the social news site, decided to raise funds and challenge each other at the same time, in a good-natured way. On December 9th, redditor maggieed suggested that the reddit Christianity subgroup start a fundraiser MORE
Last night, I attended the Berkman Thursday Blogger Meeting which featured Alexis and Steve, Reddit Founders. Reddit is a community news service with ratings. "Not enough money to live in luxury, but enough to be able to work on Reddit and live."). Reddit is like del.icio.us Alexis and Steve received venture capital from a company that funds projects by youth (these guys must have been all of 22). MORE
Thanks to everyone who voted for our submission in Reddit's FeedANeed.org contest and has donated to our $20.09 This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. MORE
University of Reddit. This site is a great resource, although quite unknown compared to the mighty Reddit, this site gives users the opportunity to share information through classrooms. This is a guest post by Sandra Miller, a tech writer from Brooklyn. MORE
I'll be interested to see how reddit coordinates the actual doing of the volunteer work, and what the results are. reddit volunteer online webReddit.com , a social news site, is pairing volunteers with nonprofits between now and February 14, 2009 as part of its Feed a Need project. MORE
Amid all the bad stuff, you'll find some ridiculously generous human beings on Reddit. I'll admit it: when people have asked me how brands could engage effectively on Reddit , the super-popular link-sharing social network, I've usually rolled my eyes and said, "They can't.". In light of the success of that event, people are asking once again if brands and nonprofits can use Reddit effectively. What's wrong with Reddit. Annie Lynsen. Director of Awesomeness. MORE
Latest Episode Highlights Danger and Potential of Reddit Fundraising - Social Media - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas Over Labor Day weekend, the same subreddit that helped disseminate a cache of nude celebrity photographs tried to organize an online fundraiser "in honor of" Jennifer Lawrence, one of the actresses victimized by the leak. MORE
Wasting Time While Doing Good: Nonprofits and the World of reddit. One of the best outlets for that is reddit. Despite what your boss might think, you can actually use reddit for good. As we complete another trip around the Sun, one can’t help but feel a little nostalgic. (We MORE
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. 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. See the full alert here. MORE
Last year, social bookmarking site Reddit partnered up to raise over $3,000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), a non-profit selected by the website’s users to benefit from the fund-raising drive. It's partly an acknowledgement that many people have few funds to spare, and partly a nod to the wealth of high-tech talent found among Reddit users. MORE
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in my blog about the entry of Social Actions/Change the Web in Reddit's Feed A Need contest. This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. As the days wore on, and the contest gained momentum, our team remained cautiously optimistic that a win could be clinched. MORE
This is viral philanthropy, through which users of online communities, such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, spread awareness and raise money for those who need it Viral Philanthropy: The Impact of Crowdsourced Compassion : Bus monitor Karen Klein didn’t ask the world for sympathy, and she definitely didn’t request money. But once Internet users watched the heartbreaking viral video of young students harassing Klein, they reached for their wallets. MORE
Reddit. If you’re not currently visiting Reddit to grab ideas for your blog, start doing so immediately. And dedicated Reddit users can sometimes get into some pretty lengthy discussions on topics in the comment sections, which is certainly a place bloggers should be checking out for current interests. One of the biggest obstacles bloggers encounter—whether they’re on the WordPress platform or not—is how to create content that is based on currently trending topics. MORE
Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged. MORE
Host a Twitter chat or Reddit AMA. Image courtesy of athgo. Social media is well documented as a necessary marketing platform for all nonprofits. They allow you instantly connect with millions of users who represent every demographic under the sun. MORE
Reddit is getting a fundraising button - Technolog on NBCNews.com : Now, for the first time, Reddit users will be able to execute some of these fundraisers within Reddit-branded pages MORE
Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. Image courtesy of imdesigns.ca. Responsive or mobile design. MORE
Imagine my great joy upon learning that Reddit is hosting a fantastic resource to connect volunteers of all stripes with organizations that need them this holiday season -- and those volunteers could win some BACON! You may have read about my intense love of all things bacon. I talk about it some(all the)times. MORE
massnonprofit news :: : "Web Users Vote to Give $246K to Three Boston Area Nonprofits February 27, 2015 — Three Boston area nonprofits will each receive a donation exceeding $82,000 from reddit, a social networking service and news website, sharing 10% of the organization’s gross 2014 ad revenue with seven other nonprofits nationwide. MORE
Certainly you’ve read all about what happened at Reddit ( see this long and full rundown if you need the backstory ), where the community revolted after a beloved community manager was unceremoniously fired without explanation, and which eventually led to the CEO’s firing. MORE
My one stop, time-wasting source is a little gem called reddit. So, what is reddit? Reddit is, as its tagline boasts, the front page of the Internet. Reddit is the amalgamation (22 point word on Words with Friends) of everything that is the Internet. It’s Friday. MORE
One Reddit user proposed that anyone who looked at these illegal photos should donate money to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. On Tuesday, September 2, the Prostate Cancer Foundation released the following statement : A post appeared on Reddit late Monday afternoon, September 1, 2014. A Reddit user directed other Reddit users to make a donation to the Prostate Cancer Foundation without the Foundation’s knowledge. MORE
Use Reddit. Reddit , like Craigslist, is probably one of the ugliest but most useful websites on the internet. And if it’s received a lot of attention on Reddit, chances are it will do well with your Facebook Page. MORE
Use Reddit. Reddit , like Craigslist, is probably one of the ugliest but most useful websites on the internet. And if it’s received a lot of attention on Reddit, chances are it will do well with your Facebook Page. MORE
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Reddit is getting a fundraising button - Technolog on NBCNews.com : Now, for the first time, Reddit users will be able to execute some of these fundraisers within Reddit-branded pages
SocialFish
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Certainly you’ve read all about what happened at Reddit ( see this long and full rundown if you need the backstory ), where the community revolted after a beloved community manager was unceremoniously fired without explanation, and which eventually led to the CEO’s firing.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Amid all the bad stuff, you'll find some ridiculously generous human beings on Reddit. I'll admit it: when people have asked me how brands could engage effectively on Reddit , the super-popular link-sharing social network, I've usually rolled my eyes and said, "They can't.". In light of the success of that event, people are asking once again if brands and nonprofits can use Reddit effectively. What's wrong with Reddit. Annie Lynsen. Director of Awesomeness.
NonProfit Hub
OCTOBER 30, 2015
My one stop, time-wasting source is a little gem called reddit. So, what is reddit? Reddit is, as its tagline boasts, the front page of the Internet. Reddit is the amalgamation (22 point word on Words with Friends) of everything that is the Internet. It’s Friday.
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Latest Episode Highlights Danger and Potential of Reddit Fundraising - Social Media - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas Over Labor Day weekend, the same subreddit that helped disseminate a cache of nude celebrity photographs tried to organize an online fundraiser "in honor of" Jennifer Lawrence, one of the actresses victimized by the leak.
Wild Apricot Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2008
Last year, social bookmarking site Reddit partnered up to raise over $3,000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), a non-profit selected by the website’s users to benefit from the fund-raising drive. It's partly an acknowledgement that many people have few funds to spare, and partly a nod to the wealth of high-tech talent found among Reddit users.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 11, 2005
Last night, I attended the Berkman Thursday Blogger Meeting which featured Alexis and Steve, Reddit Founders. Reddit is a community news service with ratings. "Not enough money to live in luxury, but enough to be able to work on Reddit and live."). Reddit is like del.icio.us Alexis and Steve received venture capital from a company that funds projects by youth (these guys must have been all of 22).
Social Actions
JANUARY 6, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in my blog about the entry of Social Actions/Change the Web in Reddit's Feed A Need contest. This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. As the days wore on, and the contest gained momentum, our team remained cautiously optimistic that a win could be clinched.
Social Actions
JANUARY 6, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in my blog about the entry of Social Actions/Change the Web in Reddit's Feed A Need contest. This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community. As the days wore on, and the contest gained momentum, our team remained cautiously optimistic that a win could be clinched.
Social Actions
JANUARY 6, 2009
Thanks to everyone who voted for our submission in Reddit's FeedANeed.org contest and has donated to our $20.09 This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community.
Social Actions
JANUARY 6, 2009
Thanks to everyone who voted for our submission in Reddit's FeedANeed.org contest and has donated to our $20.09 This honor translates to 160 hours of pro-bono programming and volunteer hours from the Reddit community.
AFP Blog
MARCH 4, 2015
massnonprofit news :: : "Web Users Vote to Give $246K to Three Boston Area Nonprofits February 27, 2015 — Three Boston area nonprofits will each receive a donation exceeding $82,000 from reddit, a social networking service and news website, sharing 10% of the organization’s gross 2014 ad revenue with seven other nonprofits nationwide.
NTEN
MARCH 5, 2009
Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits. While I have accounts with StumbleUpon and Reddit, I rarely use them. Tags: NPTech stumbleupon idealistnews.org idealist.org reddit web2.0 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.
Beaconfire Wire
JUNE 3, 2009
Easier to determine–and something I can now instruct you to do for yourself–is to learn the difference between Digg , Reddit , Facebook , Twitter , and StumbleUpon. After all, it takes work to gain the status you need on a site like Digg or Reddit to get your submissions noticed. People who submit links to Digg, Reddit, or one of the other commonly used social networks likely already have a method of doing this, and an icon on your pages is unlikely to help them do so.
NTEN
DECEMBER 16, 2008
Imagine my great joy upon learning that Reddit is hosting a fantastic resource to connect volunteers of all stripes with organizations that need them this holiday season -- and those volunteers could win some BACON! You may have read about my intense love of all things bacon. I talk about it some(all the)times.
AFP Blog
JULY 11, 2012
This is viral philanthropy, through which users of online communities, such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, spread awareness and raise money for those who need it Viral Philanthropy: The Impact of Crowdsourced Compassion : Bus monitor Karen Klein didn’t ask the world for sympathy, and she definitely didn’t request money. But once Internet users watched the heartbreaking viral video of young students harassing Klein, they reached for their wallets.
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
One Reddit user proposed that anyone who looked at these illegal photos should donate money to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. On Tuesday, September 2, the Prostate Cancer Foundation released the following statement : A post appeared on Reddit late Monday afternoon, September 1, 2014. A Reddit user directed other Reddit users to make a donation to the Prostate Cancer Foundation without the Foundation’s knowledge.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 25, 2015
Reddit Blog :: reddit.com/r/blog. Reddit. The nonprofit sector has a large community of technology bloggers committed to helping nonprofits stay current on emerging trends in social media, online fundraising, and mobile technology.
NonProfit Hub
DECEMBER 23, 2015
Wasting Time While Doing Good: Nonprofits and the World of reddit. One of the best outlets for that is reddit. Despite what your boss might think, you can actually use reddit for good. As we complete another trip around the Sun, one can’t help but feel a little nostalgic. (We
NCE Social Media
APRIL 22, 2011
Well, several social media sites like HootSuite , SCVNGR , Reddit , Quora and Foursquare use Amazon’s services to host their content. Yesterday, Amazon had a server problem for their cloud-based clients. You can read more about it here. What does that have to do with social media?
Byte Technology
JANUARY 12, 2017
Reddit. If you’re not currently visiting Reddit to grab ideas for your blog, start doing so immediately. And dedicated Reddit users can sometimes get into some pretty lengthy discussions on topics in the comment sections, which is certainly a place bloggers should be checking out for current interests. One of the biggest obstacles bloggers encounter—whether they’re on the WordPress platform or not—is how to create content that is based on currently trending topics.
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
The Charity Social 100 Index | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : Voluntary sector blog banner The Charity Social 100 Index Charities need to develop more effective social strategies for a cash-strapped age reddit this Comments (2) Anne McCrossan and Steve Bridger Guardian Professional, Monday 19 September 2011 04.30
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
The Charity Social 100 Index | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : Voluntary sector blog banner The Charity Social 100 Index Charities need to develop more effective social strategies for a cash-strapped age reddit this Comments (2) Anne McCrossan and Steve Bridger Guardian Professional, Monday 19 September 2011 04.30
Frogloop
JANUARY 3, 2011
The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The Reddit fundraising challenge that raised almost $60,000. The Atheist, Christian, and Islam subgroups of Reddit , the social news site, decided to raise funds and challenge each other at the same time, in a good-natured way. On December 9th, redditor maggieed suggested that the reddit Christianity subgroup start a fundraiser
TechImpact
APRIL 16, 2014
Host a Twitter chat or Reddit AMA. Image courtesy of athgo. Social media is well documented as a necessary marketing platform for all nonprofits. They allow you instantly connect with millions of users who represent every demographic under the sun.
Mobile Commons
JANUARY 18, 2012
Speakers at the rally included Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, technology thinker Clay Shirkey and others from the city’s tech startup world. This afternoon, our friends at The New York Tech Meetup took the protest against wide-ranging anti-piracy bills to the streets of Manhattan.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
The referral traffic came from Reddit. So What? The news piece that was on the top of the Reddit site was about the server outages for major online services. The comments were discussing what people did when Reddit was done.
SocialFish
JANUARY 21, 2013
University of Reddit. This site is a great resource, although quite unknown compared to the mighty Reddit, this site gives users the opportunity to share information through classrooms. This is a guest post by Sandra Miller, a tech writer from Brooklyn.
Frogloop
AUGUST 3, 2012
Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged.
Frogloop
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Users on Reddit also crowdsourced ideas to draft new Internet legislation in place of SOPA. Our desire to reach people wherever they are any time of day has radically changed the way we communicate with constituents, colleagues, and friends in the last decade.
Frogloop
DECEMBER 22, 2011
Between Digg’s redesign, Founder Kevin Rose leaving the company, and other dud product launches like Newswire , Digg just can’t compete with other social networks where people go to share news these days – Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google+, Care2, etc.
SocialFish
MAY 9, 2012
Use Reddit. Reddit , like Craigslist, is probably one of the ugliest but most useful websites on the internet. And if it’s received a lot of attention on Reddit, chances are it will do well with your Facebook Page.
TechImpact
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Twitter and Facebook are still the two most used outlets, but other spheres, such as Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and more are gaining more ground every day. Image courtesy of DoJiggy. The holiday season is meant for giving.
Frogloop
JANUARY 29, 2013
About 27% of memes orginated on websites and 14% on Reddit. Telling a good story is important to moving people into action. Amy Sample Ward and I talk about this in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , which is coming out next month.
TechImpact
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. Image courtesy of imdesigns.ca. Responsive or mobile design.
John Haydon
MAY 1, 2012
Use Reddit. Reddit , like Craigslist, is probably one of the ugliest but most useful websites on the internet. And if it’s received a lot of attention on Reddit, chances are it will do well with your Facebook Page.
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Did you know there are now over 2.3 billion active social media users? As usage numbers continue to grow across all age groups, it is safe to say that social media has become an essential element of digital marketing.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 5, 2017
We can use these methods to collect data in real-time and analyze them to see the relative rise of your campaign message vis a vis other message frames on Twitter, Facebook Pages, forums (like reddit), Instagram and tumblr. In a world where everyone is their own publisher on social media, the conventional wisdom that “content is king” is simply incomplete.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 15, 2015
Reddit, Instagram, and Snapchat may someday have their day in the sun, but as far as Congress is concerned, Facebook is king and Twitter is the crown prince. Social Media is an aspect of technology that has been more enticing, faster-moving, more powerful, and more fickle than any other mode of communication—an almost daily topic here on npENGAGE, and one that nonprofit grassroots activists are constantly trying to harness.
Mobile Commons
JANUARY 25, 2012
Tumblr, Reddit, Engine Advocacy, the Center for Rights, and other of our customers gave their users the power to more directly petition their legislators. As Reddit writes , “One day of organized protest turned Congress completely on its head.”
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