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. It then got me thinking that I often am unsure where to go on Digg to find good nonprofit news. I try to just use the search function or rely on shoutouts. It made me think that it would be great if Nonprofit had its own category on Digg. I think there's enough news and stories out there (my Google Reader's full of it!) to merit something. Wouldn't it be nice to have a place in Digg for nonprofit news?
So I sent an email to Digg and the response suggested that maybe a good idea would be to have someone blog about the idea and have us all Digg it to show Digg that there is a real community out there who would love to have a Nonprofit section. What do you think? Let's start a nonprofit Diggfest?
I remember how disappointing it was not to see this post
about Social Actions Ad Widget not make it to the top of Digg. Do you
think with a nonprofit category we'd have a better chance of getting
social action alerts and news rising to the top of Digg?
What do you think?
(Cross posted at Social Actions)
I dugg this article and the Social Widgets one. I would agree we should have a category on Digg, but I don't know if we can get enough people to digg articles to make Digg think it is worthwhile.
Can I say digg any more in 1 comment?
Posted by: crossn81 | September 26, 2008 at 02:37 PM
Thanks for writing this post Beth. Now it's up to us to use all our resources to start the Digg fest :)
I think my main idea was less about the "make it to the front page" goal and more that Digg would be a great forum for nonprofits to use as a resource center for current news and changes taking place in the field. Right now I know rely a lot on bloggers like Beth and others to keep me up to date on any new happenings. While this is great I know I am also likely missing stuff because there are plenty of people who aren't bloggers but who have great articles or links or newspages to contribute that I just don't know about. Digg would be a great spot for us to all gather this information and collaboratively agree on what is really big-time nonprofit news.
Posted by: Ashley Messick | September 26, 2008 at 02:53 PM
A better question, Beth: Is Digg the right network? Or, like R-igg, should the focus be on another?
Posted by: Ari Herzog | September 28, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Yes! I never know where to put nonprofit stuff when digging stuff! Post dugg.
Posted by: Erin McMahon | September 28, 2008 at 08:07 PM
The digg community has changed quite a bit since I first started digging, but one of the reasons I loved it was because it was full of people looking for knowledge and interesting resources. I put NWF content on digg because I wanted to distribute our content as an education resource.
Here's the problem with giving nonprofits our own category: A very similar audience to what we already get would use it and read the content. Part of the reason i've enjoyed using digg is because it allows me to distribute NWF content in a way that allows many readers to see it. Both people that agree and disagree with our stance on things. This is just my opinion, but I see a value in learning and distributing to a larger audience and maybe getting a few new people each digging attempt to read our content.
What do you guys think?
Posted by: Danielle | September 29, 2008 at 11:26 AM
You should check out http://www.cthings.com, which aggregates change-the-world news across all categories of human endeavor...
Posted by: Dan Pallotta | October 01, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Searching for the Digg of non-profits as I type!
Beth, I'd love it if you took a look at what we're doing at http://urbantastic.com.
Feel free to drop us a line if you want to share ideas.
Posted by: Benjamin Johnson | March 04, 2009 at 03:59 PM