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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
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
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Comment by Amy Linn on November 1, 2008 at 6:29pm - Thanks for adding me as a member of the Digg group. i hope you all will support me in my cause, I have built a website called www.CNGMAPS.com. please visit me and support me, i also have a group with the same name on Pickens Plan push.
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Comment by Michael, Houston on November 1, 2008 at 7:42am -
JOBS UPDATE
Thousands of new GREEN JOBS are now posted on GREEN JOBS NOW! group page. Join the group today and we will keep you informed. http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnowcom
Tell your friends looking for a job to sign up on the PickensPlan and upload their resume FREE at: www.green-jobs-now.com
Melissa
coordinator@green-jobs-now.com
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Comment by Mike Johnston on October 17, 2008 at 9:56am -
If you would like please digg my story
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Pickens_Gore_and_Natural_Gas
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Comment by Christina Dian Parmionova on October 17, 2008 at 1:42am - MAKE IT RIGHT
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Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on October 16, 2008 at 6:31am -
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Comment by Tamara on October 10, 2008 at 6:59pm -
http://digg.com/users/theater61
Stop by and DIGG don't ya know....
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Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on October 8, 2008 at 1:29pm
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Please share this news with your colleagues – hope to see you there!
T. Boone Pickens is bringing the Pickens Plan for Energy Independence to Chicago in a town hall meeting set for next Tuesday, October 14, from 10:30 a.m. – noon at Navy Pier (Grand Ballroom).
US Rep. Rahm Emanuel will address the town meeting to highlight Chicago 's strengths in leading the nation to energy independence. We also expect Mayor Richard M. Daley to attend and make brief remarks.
The Town Hall meeting will feature Mr. Pickens' presentation of his "Pickens Plan," which has attracted wide attention since he announced it earlier this year. He will then host a Q&A session with the audience.
In their remarks, Rep. Emanuel and Mayor Daley will showcase Chicago as ready, willing and able to lead the nation in creating new business and new job opportunities in alternative and renewable energy. To that end, the Chicago Manufacturing Center is organizing an industrial showcase featuring five companies that are developing new products in renewable/alternative energy, are suppliers to the renewable energy industry, and/or are implementing new technologies and processes that dramatically reduce energy consumption, cost, and emissions at their facilities.
In announcing his participation in the Town Hall, Rep. Emanuel stated, "Our energy crisis directly affects our national security, our economic security, and our environmental security. I think we need to look at our current energy situation the same way previous generations looked at the great challenges of their day. For centuries, Americans have been at the forefront in developing the technologies that move people. We connected our railroads from east to west, we put a man on the moon, and we built a state-of-the-art interstate highway system connecting New York to California and Chicago to St. Louis . Our commitment to progress and overcoming obstacles made us global leaders in technology. Now we are faced with an obstacle that has been looming since the oil shocks of the 1970's: our nation's addiction to foreign oil. We have an obligation - to our citizens and to our world - to rise to the challenges of the next frontier in energy."
The Chicago Manufacturing Center views the "New Energy Economy" as a tremendous growth opportunity for small and mid-sized manufacturers in our region. Sustainable manufacturing and renewable energy production are key elements of the Chicago Climate Action Plan announced recently by Mayor Daley.
We invite you to participate in the October 14 Town Meeting to learn more about these opportunities and to take part in the discussion. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. You can confirm you attendance by e-mail to townhall@respublicagroup.com
Bruce Eric Montgomery
Montgomery & Company
Technology | Innovation | Commerce
onepresence@yahoo.com
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Comment by Mike Johnston on September 25, 2008 at 3:17pm
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here is a link to my widget on digg
http://digg.com/gadgets/Pickens_Plan_News_Widget/who
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Comment by Mike Johnston on September 25, 2008 at 6:44am
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I created a news feed widget for the Pickens Plan news. People can use this widget to put the pickens news on their website or social networking page. I put it on digg so it would get some exposure to the general public :-)
http://digg.com/gadgets/Pickens_Plan_News_Widget
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Comment by Scott Reynolds on September 24, 2008 at 8:00pm -
Getting everyone to "Digg" Boone's stories will be a great start! I hope this grows like it sounds like it will.
To make it easier for people to find the stories to Digg, highlight the text and use the link button in the comment editor to add the link, then everyone can just click the link. Besides, hyperlinks on keywords to pages having the same keywords bring lots of search engine attention.
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