Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Twitter Search.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2009

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. Video RSS search. read more ).

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

First, npENGAGE is home to nine blogs. As a reader, you’ll have the flexibility to consume information across the whole spectrum or to just subscribe to the individual blog that speaks to your needs and interests. Everything previously covered here on NetWits will be in the npENGAGE Interactive Blog. Including NetWits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

Also, if you decide to become an early adopter and want to promote your Pheed and Sulia profiles on your website, blog and e-newsletter, you can right-click to download the Pheed and Sulia icons on the right side of this blog. Rather than following others on Sulia, users “Trust” brands that provide good content.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes. Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’ve been using Feedburner for my blog RSS Feeds since 2005! It was one of a few good free options in the early days of blogging. Shortly after Feedburner was acquired by Google in 207, there started to be complaints about the way it was managing the transition and handling subscriber stats.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. Make sure to check out his blog [link]. There are seven ways people can interact with your Page , which all effect your ability to show up in your fans news feeds. How interesting is your content? Are people viewing our content more or less than the previous 30 days?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech When it comes to “nptech” or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of! So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. I’m no exception. Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Communication.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

And that means utilizing smartphone apps that help them stay on top of their site and its content. For those who gather inspiration from a handful of their favorite websites and blogs, Feedly allows you to automatically subscribe to them and read them whenever you want across a host of devices—browsers, desktops, iOS, Android etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. 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? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I put query out on the NTEN affinity group for nonprofit blogging about widgets. Reed Stockman from AFP Blog (Associate of Fundraising Professionals) told me that he is using a widget called RSSMIX to combine feeds and republish them on their Master Blog. He notes that this widget is useful because it: a.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side. If so what are they?

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

RSS is dead. Blogs are not dead. Blogs are still cool. People who blog are still cool. I spend a lot of time on my iPad and I was frustrated at how near impossible it was to add a new feed to Google Reader from the iPad Safari browser. My problem: I still like Google Reader. Yeah, yeah, I know.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Creating Great Content. When it comes to creating great content, there are four important elements, especially with social media, as you can see in the image at the top of this post. And the content – is that a platform or application that supports that kind of content? So, what is the content you want to share?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. folder where I track references to my name, my projects, or new contributions to blog-comment conversations I???ve ego surfing???

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech The Association of Fundraising Professionals. NPMobile ,

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My efforts to revitalize my blog were hit & miss in 2009. It has been 7 years since I started blogging. My blog has always been my playground. Blogging is no exception. No matter how hard I tried to make it easier, blogging is still a chore. It’s easy to get content in. Not anymore.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

When I first dropped my self-hosted blog and relocated it to Posterous last year after a bit of a hacking incident , I had trouble importing the old content. Those of you subscribed via my old Feedburner RSS feed shouldn’t have to change anything.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My efforts to revitalize my blog were hit & miss in 2009. It has been 7 years since I started blogging. My blog has always been my playground. Blogging is no exception. No matter how hard I tried to make it easier, blogging is still a chore. I keep thinking back to Steve Rubel's adios to blogging last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Reader Growth : This is content consumption.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

If they can see your group content without joining and it has been a slow week or two in freshly posted content or you haven’t had a chance yet to delete recent spam, then you have likely lost them as a member of your group. Don’t Use News Feeds. Instead, post news and new blog posts manually. Enable Promotions and Jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. Here's one of her experiments ) Tell me more about your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. What's good or useful about user-generated content and what's just entertaining or cute. But is it fixed? Do you have an opinion?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Such is life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics. " You won???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

Here’s how: On the NTEN Blog We’ll be streamlining coverage of 2012 NTC on the NTEN blog. Insider tip: Don’t miss the hilarious cartoon blogging sponsored by our friends at Rally. Insider Tip: There’s already great NTC content on our channel! Each session page pulls in the unique feed for that session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world!

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

Now that I’m blogging on judisohn.com as the domain, it’s time to tackle another problem. If I listened to conventional blogging wisdom, I’d only be blogging about Weight Watchers (my most popular posts by page views) or Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction ( my most popular post by comments).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. Put your feed button above the fold. ve just read a value-packed post and are feeling most positive about your content. ve written about this in detail at Blogging Tips. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts.

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