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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually. I'd also cover stretching and RSI and how to avoid it.(in

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Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The good news is that almost every system we reviewed will allow your visitors to comment on articles or other site content, but accepting comments is only half of the process—you also want to be able to maintain some sense of order to prevent the distracting free-for-all an unmoderated comments section turn into.

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WeAreMedia ToolBox: This Week We're Working Crowdsourcing, Micro Media, and Lifestreaming Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors!   We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others. 

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The Answer to Sean's Question: Tools for Effective Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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RSS Readers and the Search for Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended the " Tag You Are It " session at NTC by Ami Dar and Katrin Verclas and was exposed to a lot of new technology tools. So, I set up a little action learning project ( cambodia4kids ) to play with these tools to see how they might be useful for technology infused curriculum or nonprofit use. Who is author?

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What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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