Diggers for Pickens Plan

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Do you have an account on Digg.com? If you do, please join this group! We want to spread the word to as many people as possible. We'll use our Digg accounts to vote for stories about the Pickens Plan. Check this page for upcoming stories.

Website: http://digg.com/users/pickensplan
Location: Digg
Members: 75
Latest Activity: Aug 20

Pickens Plan Guide for using Digg.com

What is Digg?

Digg is a website that allows you to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories.

Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most dugg stories appear on the site’s front page. It typically takes between 75 and 150 diggs for an article to get promoted to the Digg front page.

On the Digg website, stories that have made the front page can be accessed via the Popular tab, with submitted stories that have not yet made the front page accessible via the Upcoming tab (see screenshot below). Like a newspaper, Digg divides its content into a variety of categories, allowing users to self select the kinds of information that read.

Stories and websites that appear on the front page of Digg enjoy huge influxes of traffic, with tens of thousands of new visitors being referred from a single link.

Registered users can also set up profiles, make friends with other users and send other users notes (called “shouts”) alerting them about interesting new content on the site.

How will the Pickens Plan be using Digg?

The Pickens Plan will be using Digg in two very focused ways:

1. We will generally be promoting positive news articles about the Pickens Plan that appear on various media outlets and blogs in an effort to spread the word about the Pickens Plan.

2. We will be submitting stories and action items that appear on www.pickensplan.com to the site in hopes of building our site membership and generally increasing traffic.

The official Pickens Plan Digg account will serve as the center of Pickens Plan activity on Digg.

What Can You Do to Help?

Following are the steps you can take to aid our efforts.

1. Create a Digg account. Only registered users can digg and comment on stories on the site, so you’ll need an account in order to help out.

2. Start digging and commenting on stories. Once you create your account, start participating. The best way to do this is to watch the Pickens Plan account and vote for the stories we are promoting, although we will send periodic email reminders to everyone when we identify important stories we want to promote. Please also try to vote for other, non-Pickens stories you find interesting, as Digg rewards users who have a varied site history.

3. Join the Digger for Pickens Plan Group on Push. This group will be used to help encourage our Push community to help in our efforts on Digg.

4. Recruit others to help in our efforts. Please encourage the people you encounter on Push and in other venues to help out with our efforts to promote Pickens Plan content on Digg.

Below are some online resources that provide more detailed explanations of how Digg works:

• Beginners Guide to Digg
• How Digg Works
• A Tour of Digg
• 8 Ways to Get to the Digg Front Page

Upcoming Stories on Digg

Has Natural Gas's Moment Come?

After a decade-long wild ride, North American natural-gas prices seem to be entering a period of stability, which is likely to change the way Americans heat their homes, generate their electricity and maybe even fuel their cars.

Renewable Energy Focus - US agency predicts greater use of r

The consumption of solar electricity will grow by more than 14% per year over the next quarter century in the United States, according to the latest forecast from the Department of Energy (DoE).

Pickens speaks bluntly on experience, energy

A book by a billionaire on how to make your first billion may seem like an absurd reading choice as the United States continues to saunter through recession, high unemployment and a weakening dollar. But if that billionaire is T. Boone Pickens, and the account is not just a story of one man's past but the country's possible future...

Oilman Pickens to keynote Texas State commencement

Oil businessman T. Boone Pickens will be the keynote speaker at one of four commencement ceremonies to be held at Texas State University Dec. 18 and 19 in Strahan Coliseum.

Living Through The New Energy Crisis

The debate rages over whether we have already reached the point of peak world oil output or will not do so until at least the next decade.

More…

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Comment by John Wesley Nobles on July 3, 2009 at 5:20pm: We are pleased to announce that US Congressman Ken Calvert, CA 44 signed the Pickens Plan Pledge last Friday, making him the first California Congressman to sign. Congressman Calvert is a cosponsor of HR 1835. We hope our other California Elected Representatives will follow your lead. THANK YOU CONGRESSMAN CALVERT !

Comment by John Wesley Nobles on June 29, 2009 at 8:21pm: We hope you will call in with a Conversation with T. Boone Pickens, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 11:00 am PST @ 347-637-3101 to talk or to listen. Blogtalkradio.com/Mr-Wayne. Thanks for your support.

Comment by david@PickensPlan on May 27, 2009 at 11:25am: Quick update - Digg has changed how people can share submitted articles.

You can read about the changes here.

Comment by david@PickensPlan on March 31, 2009 at 1:31pm: If you are on Twitter, help spread the word about Pickens Plan! Use the hashtag #pickensplan on relevant tweets during March on Washington week.

Not sure what Twitter is? Check out the Pickens Plan Supporters on Twitter Group.

Comment by Ken Smith on March 11, 2009 at 7:40am: Inviting all members to join the Pickens Plan Group focused on supporting community-scale renewable energy projects - http://push.pickensplan.com/group/buildbabybuild. Boone's plan will move the nation, Build Baby Build will change your community. Please join here and online at www.buildbabybuild.net

Comment by Lee Walden on February 23, 2009 at 1:39pm: Hey folks,
I was able to see and hear the summit today
and I have been waiting since the moon landing to
hear the dialog that we heard today
one hill climed more to go
great job Mr. pickens
keep the faith
regards
Lee

Comment by Lee Walden on February 4, 2009 at 11:48am: Hey folks watching the progress we are makeing
check out Lou Dobbs on CNN wed 2/4/09 at 7 pm et
talking about the energy situation lets see if we are getting our point accross

Comment by david@PickensPlan on February 4, 2009 at 11:18am: Hi JenniferOK - right above this message is the list of articles we've submitted to DIgg. Feel free to Digg at anytime. Immediate response is great but sometimes its even better when an article that has been sitting awhile gets Dugg.

Try subscribing to the direct RSS feed of the Pickens Digg profile:

I also send a message to group members when we've dugg something.

Comment by JenniferInOK on February 3, 2009 at 11:35pm: I've only received a few messages to digg and shout articles and they were usually over a day old. Is there anyway to set up an RSS feed for the articles we need to digg? I would get on them right away if I knew about them.