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StumbleUpon Launches Program to Help Nonprofits | GoodWorks - Advertising Age

AFP Blog

StumbleUpon Launches Program to Help Nonprofits | GoodWorks - Advertising Age : "StumbleUpon is officially launching Stumbling for Good, a new advertising program to help nonprofits increase awareness and site traffic.

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6 Takeaways From ShareThis’ Study on Social Sharing

NetWits

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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Great reads from December 12th through December 13th

Amy Sample Ward

The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook: The Most Egregious Sins on Social Media Sites, Exposed » techipedia | tamar weinberg - A great primer on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Social News sharing, FriendFeed, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Blogging and more.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

ShareThis – While the three social tools mentioned above are the baseline, what happens when you want to give your participants access to other social networks like StumbleUpon®, Digg®, and Yahoo!®?

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Online Discussion on June 23: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Robert Weiner

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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Transcript: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Robert Weiner

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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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

NTEN

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. While I have accounts with StumbleUpon and Reddit, I rarely use them. Tags: NPTech stumbleupon idealistnews.org idealist.org reddit web2.0

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Online Discussion on June 23: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Tech Soup Blog

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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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon. too bad they don’t have stumbleupon included. But I’m not so sold on stumbleupon anyway. I think those are better ideas than community blogs – and it’s so easy for people to get involved. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!)

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Transcript: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Tech Soup Blog

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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Social Network Tracker: How to Find your Supporters on Social Networks

Care2

StumbleUpon. Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. LiveJournal. Match Rate: The anticipated match rate for Social Network Tracker data append is 70% to 80%. However, results may vary for your file.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. We currently use a plethora of online tools to spread the word and talk to people.

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WeAreMedia ToolBox: This Week We're Working Crowdsourcing, Micro Media, and Lifestreaming Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources? Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.

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Guest Post by Angus Parker: Review and Book Giveaway - The New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finally, since I've never really been able to understand StumbleUpon , a social bookmarking service that we use to great effect at WiserEarth, it was a revelation to read the description in the book. If you have any feedback for Tamar about the book, she is collecting it on her blog: [link].

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon referred nearly 17,000 people to nature.org this past January, and what most marketers don???t a lot of our initial efforts weren???t but now that we???ve

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Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. This means choices will be made. Some will spread the peanut butter a little thinner, trying to make it stretch further.

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. That being said, maybe I have somewhat of a problem reaching whoever I want to reach by the more 2.0 July 2, 2009 | Maarten I think a great tracking tool for social media sites is Social Sniffer. Its definitely worth mentioning in this post.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content.

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

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. Anne was excited, but still wary about how much of her job she could actually commit to this social media stuff. I told her just to try it and see what happens.

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8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

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. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup Blog

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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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A lthough neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. " It goes on to describe a panel discussion from the MIT Emerging Technology Conference that featured what Rashmi might describe as "object-based social networks."

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. Libsyn , Hipcast ) Video sharing (i.e. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. The First Step Get a champion in the organization. They don't have to be social media butterflies, but they need to have influence and support in the organization.

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Guest Post: 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experiment with StumbleUpon. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Finish the social media strategy map. Refine strategy based on listening first. Set up a Facebook Page. Finish plan, get more expertise to help with implementation. Set up RSS Reader, Start Commenting on blogs.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

See3

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories).

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Intersting Post: Information Overload and the FOOD IS THOUGHT Metaphor

Network-Centric Advocacy

Surely, even with the most efficient recommendations from StumbleUpon and all sorts of filtration tools, those tenths of seconds still must add up? After all, you have to, at the very least, glance at a news headline or email subject line for a tenth of a second to decide whether or not you want to process (or eat) it.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" 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. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. { 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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Digg This?

Allegiance Group

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. These are huge questions that I’ll just sort of ignore.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Dave Winer says why rss subscriber numbers alone don't matter and Kaushik has some advice on measuring this. Avinash suggested Technorati. This is hard to pin down. Does the number of embeds fit in here?

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Netscape wants its gatekeepers back | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

It’s a form of wikiality, to be sure – StumbleUpon is almost built to be a network of goofy stuff. But in a way it puts the onus on the consumer to pick a site with like-minded readers to find the news that interests them.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Wild Apricot Blog : Social Annotation: the Next Generation of Social Bookmarking

Wild Apricot

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.)

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A Photo A Day Keeps Lack of Engagement Away

Care2

Photos on Pinterest are referring more traffic than Twitter, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, and Google+. On Facebook's top 10 brand pages, photos and videos drive the most engagement. A whopping 42% of all Tumblr posts are photos. Where is your audience talking?

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