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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. and Canada.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. Thankfully for members of #OWS, there are various tools to livestream events, just from your mobile phone. One key element is the use of an online homebase.

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Multiple Platform Social Media Strategies: Recap from #StateandMain14

NTEN

Feedly : a news aggregation app that pulls feeds from news sites and social media. Mobile Commons : a platform that helps nonprofits reach their communities through text message. Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation.

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The Association of Fundraising Professionals Technology Blog: An Underused Fundraising Resource

Tech Soup

His " Hot Tops " section of the AFP website aggregates information based on those conversations. so that fundraisers can get RSS news feeds or social media feeds on the exact subjects they’re interested in. Reed says that communicating across diverse media is now a culture-wide attribute of the organization.

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Get Involved in Gustav Online Volunteer Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies.

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Marshall to discuss the report and the insights RWW discovered through the process of aggregating and distilling so much information from experts and Web users. Then we took the filtered RSS feed and we ran it through an RSS to SMS/IM alert service. It’s amazing. I use Notify.me

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tags are one easy option, if I can get nice mobile access as the food and travel/city relevant info does me more use from a mobile. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Reading a feed of short messages sent from the #sandiegofires was very interesting, for example.

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