Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I got a message from one of my readers, Ashley Messick, on Facebook about a recent post about Social Actions Twitter for Good Facebook Group and TwitterFeed Mashup I wanted to Digg post about Save the World with Twitter and wasn't quite sure how to categorize it when submitting. Wouldn't it be nice to have a place in Digg for nonprofit news?

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

It demonstrates who uses the biggest social media tools – the gender, age, education and income of the people who engage with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Digg and LinkedIn pages. So are you targeting women with your social media sites?

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 23, 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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Robert Weiner

JUNE 26, 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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube. You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. button to your bookmarks bar).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Twitter Search - shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don't use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately). Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Boardreader - shows forum posts by keyword.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. If it’s out there Google will probably find it. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times." While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?

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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.). I told her just to try it and see what happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit. While Allan has been in Vietnam celebrating the lunar New Year and eating exotic foods, he has still managed to get online, play with Pipes, and IM me about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

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. [link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Goal: To understand how to use blogging and video blogging tools to strategically tell your organization’s story or get others to share the story. Generating Buzz. Presenter: Holly Ross. Chat Leader: Danielle Brigida.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

And if you think this is cool, go digg it. Here's the list.

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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. I also mentioned the desire to have some collaborative filtering - like digg, perhaps using pligg as Allan Benamer and Marshall had suggested. When I mentioned this, Jerry suggested I take a look at Dabbledb -- especially the screencast on analyzing digg data with it.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter. Is that how we measure social impact now? One final thing; the post also tars all non-profits with the same brush, ignoring huge amounts of innovative work with web 2.0 and social media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are interested in implementing a social media program (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg) but are unsure how to measure the impact or know what success looks like, attend this free TechSoup Talks webinar on Thursday, August 13, 10 a.m. How do you show that this new technology is something worth the staff time invested? Pacific time.

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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

MAY 18, 2007

How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships?

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Digg Reader. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Additionally, with the recent departure of Google Reader you might also be looking for a worthy replacement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

In this case, it's Kevin Rose of digg fame. They did, so she did. Gary Vaynerchuk has come up with a variation on this and he isn't shaving his head. He's calling out someone else to shave their head. Meanwhile, if you want to help out DonorsChoose.org and use wordpress, here's something that doesn't require you (or Kevin Rose) to shave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

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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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

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. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? Allows you to see engagement trends over time.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. 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. listening to audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. Shaving your head to supercharge a fundraising campaign has continued to be popular into 2008. Gary Vaynerchuk. used a variation on the personal challenge theme by asking a friend to do take a personal challenge for charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag.

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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! 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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