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Great reads from around the web on May 9th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blackbaud paid an aggregate purchase price of approximately $325 million.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. Like tagging for Twitter, hashtags are terms you put after a # in a post.

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. Want to find new followers and receive useful statistics to improve your Twitter usage? It’s easy to use: all you have to do is follow the Mr. Tweet twitter account and messages will be sent to you via DM. Twitter Karma. Delicious / Bookmarks. Communities.

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Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

NonProfit Hub

And Twitter? Or, maybe you bookmarked it and still can’t sort through your tabs. It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). I’m aggregated on live.linuxchix.org – a planet for those who are involved in Linuxchix. Second, is bookmarking. It’s a great idea, I think.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. Read this ).

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