Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. a lot of our initial efforts weren???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Nick Temple from the UK left a comment on the link I shared on Facebook: It smacks of someone who knows the marketing and internet world very well, and the non-profit world barely. Twitter & Digg? Godin replies on the comments of Tom Watson's post: Sorry to hear it didn’t resonate with you.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

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. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). Comment on the post and thank the writer for the mention. Test for What Works.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. 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 be fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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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. I was googling to find an article about social network policies, specifically friending policies. You can customize the search results page too.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. Receive monthly updates 13 Comments | by Share Article in Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0 Reader Comments (13) I like Quantcast better than Xinureturns for an overview that includes social media profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

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. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience. Postrank Analytics. Do you know who they are?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. with feature for people to comment on the text. with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc. This would massively improve what bibliophiles call book discovery.

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

60) Search « Lean, Mean Blogging Machines | Main | Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad » Friday Nov 10 2006 Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) Friday, November 10, 2006 at 01:37PM | by Mark Source: Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment. 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 also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. commenting. Blast Advanced Media explores some of the site interactions that you will now be able to track with events as goals (though some of these options require additional tracking code setup): printing pages. emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook. tweeting your site on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. I would like to see if number of comments correlates. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Most interesting, I thought are the comments on " reputation management " and the role it plays in opening up a process like this. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

  Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. So trackbacks and comments get more weight than clicks and views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. comments??? It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

His page features a famous clip of Seinfeld's George Castanza shouting "I was in the pool, I was in the pool." People who donated enjoyed the opportunity for innuendo in the comments. He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. While a modest amount raised, Erin surpassed his fundraising goal by 50%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. If that's your intention - go right ahead. But know there are other video hosts. Get Found on Technorati. Take your rank with a grain of salt. Measure Your Traffic. Yep, google analytics is great. And here's a good listener's guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  LifeStreams: Individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.   This includes FriendFeed and Social Thing.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! Leave a comment » 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. once which was a trip.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! Leave a comment » 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. once which was a trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. The first six people to leave a comment got the invites. Oh, a few of your friends might discover it early on and leave comments on the wall like "So Facebook is teh web 2.0 My Flickr Stream. It was invitation only.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Think of the comment area of your blog like a cocktail party.

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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). There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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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 [.] One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big. First a little background.

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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. Leave comments on blogs. Add your comments below. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

In the comments to a post , Jonny Goldstein, pointed me to the above video from SEIU in YouTube. 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. So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes). It got 189 diggs. Use feedback in action to adjust as you go. So, this is rough.

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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. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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