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RSS is really your friend

NCE Social Media

RSS - Really Simple Syndication, can be a great time saver. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Content Curation Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

Technology has made it easier than ever to access a wide range of information, but what’s the best way to sort through it all? The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Audience matters, and being mindful of what your community is interested in should inform the curation process.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

I will|I’ll} {right away|immediately} {take hold of|grab|clutch|grasp|seize|snatch} your {rss|rss feed} as I {can not|can’t} {in finding|find|to find} your {email|e-mail} subscription {link|hyperlink} or {newsletter|e-newsletter} service. I’m definitely {enjoying|loving} the information. Do {you have|you’ve} any?

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Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. Podcasts are simply audio blogs that were downloadable, and you could put on your favorite digital audio device (hence, "Pod"casting). Such is life.

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. Also, my audio was very garbled and my skype and Second Life were a bit too much for my computer and it crashed.