Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. This is a blog that provides information about the organization's programs and services.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog. What happens if something controversial comes up, how does your blog react?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Ask them: What type of information do you need to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

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. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With this information, he can see whats happening with the average organization. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. They're identifiable subject matter experts who dive through mountains of digital information and distill it down to its most relevant, essential parts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. You can browse, organize, or search one RSS Feed or many. For example, for my blog I can create an index with key words organized by concept just for my blog or for all blogs.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2009

The International Aid Transparency Initiative is a new initiative which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. IDML or International Development Markup Language is an emerging XML standard for aid information. 2 - More coherent information about aid projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

" The idea was to create a list of tools that could be used in the areas of contact management, technology assessment, information aggregators, productivity, research, etc. But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss. Is the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

The value of listening is not in the act of listening in and of itself, but when an organization or individual uses the information to improve programs or marketing. With such a clear policy for response, it is obvious that the blog generates valuable information to shape and improve a marketing strategy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Those who didn’t participate in the poll at all, but did on my wall asking for their feedback on polling apps said they didn’t like that the app asked for their personal information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. Philosophical points aside, technically and operationally RSS presents a series of institutional problems, challenges, and questions: How could or should I incorporate it into the enterprise? t quite know what to do.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Communicate with your fans regularly just to stay in touch or with special news, offers and information. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. This number measures the aggregate count of Wall posts, Likes, Discussion posts and comments on any content such as photos, videos, notes or links in the past 7 days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Paul, I think it is okay to blog private email conversations as long as you aren't airing dirty laundry or sharing too private information. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. I have one blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2008

Earlier this week, I participated as a guest on an NTEN Webinar by John Kenyon and when we discussed Twitter - there were questions about whether it is best to use Twitter as to distribute information about your organization's programs or as a conversation tool. That's a conversation happening in other nonprofit spaces on the Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Our goal is to create a gallery of case studies that will provide inspiration and information for other nonprofits. Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here. Finally, anyone who is registered on NetSquared can blog on the NetSquared blog about Net2 related things.

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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. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. rethink, reinvent. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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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

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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. The blog also kept people informed during the second trial, when media coverage had diminished, and eventually drew attention to the trial when the blog got news coverage. From Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. IMHO the winners will be those that understand it's not enough to do the same old things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. Listening leads to engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I created NPOblogs as a means to aggregate the many socially progressive blogs that were appearing. I was finding it hard to keep up with all the blogs out there and thought it would be nice for someone looking for blogs/rss feeds to come to a single site to find a listing. Too much information, the noise and static of it all.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 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!" Its basically about storing and retrieving information.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

If you want people to be able to tag artifacts with keywords, comments, or ratings, you need a unique identifier for each artifact, a way for visitor submissions to populate a database, and automated programs for aggregation and display of visitor data. It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection. It’s easy to use.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

More than just a social media aggregator, TINT also allows you to customize the look and feel of your aggregated feed and analyze the success of your social campaigns. Check out the TINT 4 Good site for more information. You can also use RSS to pull in content from other sources like Flickr and WordPress. Personalize.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Reeder – is an RSS reader or news aggregator that compiles information from several online sources into a single place. Circa – is the news aggregation app I use. Waze – is a free driving and navigation app that aggregates road conditions from other drivers who are close by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency. I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). s blog into their aggregator. s URL or IP address. s readership.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform. Am I missing anything here?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. If you’re just looking at the list, then the value of the information is relatively low. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. Just like a report of giving by city.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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