Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

Feedly : a news aggregation app that pulls feeds from news sites and social media. Social media advice specifically for government employees by Hootsuite, via @DebbyRogers on Twitter. Some of the tools highlighted include: Content curation. Social media policy Pinterest board curated by NTEN Member, Debra Askanese.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley. Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. Google news feed about the event. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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. Like people generally do, we thought about the impact that Twitter and Facebook were making on the web. Probably middle of 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

The actions in our database are aggregated from across the social web and include everything from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.&#. You can follow UniversalGiving or Social Actions on Twitter, follow stories on their blogs ( UG blog or SA blog ) or visit their websites to learn more: [link]. Connect & Learn more.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

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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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner." Thanks, Peter!

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

Social media aggregation and promotion hooks including RSS feeds, Facebook “Like&# , inbound and outbound Twitter posts, and ShareThis. Team profiles with a “follow&# feature, embeddable video, location information, comments, and feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

We have lists of nonprofit technology and nonprofit bloggers , we have the nptech tag , a NpTech Blogs Twitterfeed Twitter account , and several excellent lists on AllTop ( fundraising , nonprofit , social change , and social good ). He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. My problem has been retrieval. Communication.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. Chatting with web strategy blogger Jon Udell about the challenges in his work to promote adoption by content producers and aggregators of the very valuable local community calendars. * There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

Submitted by Susan Tenby, publisher of Online Communities for Social Change Today I had several discovery moments of serendipitous learning via Twitter. I am noticing lately, that I am hearing all my news before it even hits the web, let alone TV, via Twitter. suzboop on Twitter. I guess that will be another post entirely.)

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Plus, Slideshare partners with several resources including LinkedIn, Twitter and FreeConference.com. Storify creates stories from social media feeds and can be useful for a conference or reporting.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2014

I started by: subscribing to some mainstream aggregators, like Huffington Post Latino Voices , Latino USA , Colorlines , Codeswitch. following a few hashtags and people associated with these sources on Twitter, checking out the lists of who they follow, and adding more people to my Twitter feed through their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a twitter account. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

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 ). room, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Then be sure to tag it "stopcyberbullying" so we can aggregate it. -. of videos and other resources related to cyberbullying, along with a feed. Follow the feed. You can subscribe to the feed or follow it on Twitter: [link] st.com/digest3/ RBPBKDZEIH. It can be a personal story about cyberbullying, a.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. Its simple-to-use API has allowed others to build on top of its functionality – which is why there are so many Twitter-based apps. HelpAttack.com is a prime example of building on top of Twitter and other APIs.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Well, total aggregate unrelated business income has grown in the sector over the last few decades, but so has the number of nonprofit organizations. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. In On Being Nonprofit , Frumkins Figure 5.2

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

The New York State Senate has a Twitter feed. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. What they're doing, and how they're doing it, are great lessons for our sector. The New York State Senate website is built on Drupal.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

As the popularity and use of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter continue to grow at staggering rates, we can expect these tools to become more and more a part of everyday business for employees. You can follow Grant on Twitter: @geekbyte. You "tweeted" on my LinkedIn! What do you think?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide. Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Listening helps her aggregate stories for her blog and has helped her grow the readership. Using a combination of Twitter, RSS feeds, and commenting on blogs, they ahve seen their search engine results improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The initiative also has a group blog - it's the homebase where the campaign is aggregating campaign coverage in the main stream press and on blogs. In addition, it puts a story in your needs feed. So go sign the petition, send a post card, blog about it, twitter about it, or invite your friends on Facebook to Cause.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Feed your raw data to world. Does your organization track and aggregate data that's critical to an issue or a sector -- say votes, poverty indicators, energy consumption, or spending?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. about how the social media conversation has shifted again - this time it has moved from Twitter to Friendfeed. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments. Update: There's been a lot of discussion lately.

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We will, however, report the interesting, aggregated results on frogloop in the future.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

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