Monkey Vs Robot – My Weekly Idealist post
Vote for Idealist!
We produce a lot of content here at Idealist that’s easily shared on social networks like Digg, Reddit, Delicious and StumbleUpon. If you search through those sites, you’ll see that our blogposts, podcasts, videos, photos and other resources are already up there. Some of the content we’ve submitted ourselves but much has been posted by our network of supporters. What sets these networks apart from sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace is how they aggregate submitted content. Digg, Reddit and the others use a version of the vote-to-promote idea, which basically is the promotion of stories and news by voting, and the links with the most "votes" float to the front of those services. Unfortunately nonprofit content doesn’t get a lot of love on these sites, and to date, there’s no service solely designated to promoting nonprofit ideas via vote-to-promote. What can you do to help you ask? Well, that’s a very considerate of you. Below I’ve set up a spreadsheet where you can see which Idealist links have been submitted to Reddit and Digg. If you have an account on either of these services, you can click through the urls to vote for Idealist. If you don’t have an account, you can easily set one up. The more votes we get, the easier it is for people to find out about us.





