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Four things for 4th of July

NCE Social Media

RSS Feeds were a great tool to aggregate news from many sites into one place and you could make it your own. Since Google and others have decided that RSS feeds are no longer necessary , boo hiss, you can use social media in its stead. Use it wisely. Now you have to use a Web 3.0 social version of it.

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). This is a premium service and it well worth the investment. It strikes me that this a fantastic model for professional development 2.0

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Go Inside the Mind of the Human Aggregator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interview with Scoble where he answers these questions: Which RSS reader does he use and why? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships? How does he configure it to save time? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts?

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Lists As Part of Your Content Strategy: A Short List of Tips and Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One important consideration is that the tool has an export feature so you don’t loose your work. (If they don’t have an export button, many tools do use RSS and you can export your work into Excel.). He points a few limitations though.

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RSS Habits and Tools of Edtechs and NPTechs without Indigestion.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions. " on the lower left side.)

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My New Year’s Resolution: Balancing Solitude and Connectedness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

RSS readers worked for us in the early phases of social media, but as more people are connected through social networks and sharing and publishing information, there is more and more information out there. Examples: DataSift and Research.ly. Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site.