Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Put them on a list, in a circle, or group so you can focus on their stream and not get distracted. Too much “resharing&# simply pollutes your stream and creates noise. Google + offers another layer of complexity because you can refine what you share with whom, although that probably takes more time to think through. #

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform. Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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JULY 14, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

He's been redesigning his blog over the past few days, adding widgets for visual appeal and RSS publishing feeds. Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog. Widgets create gateways and connections between different web sites and blogs.

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JULY 16, 2009

Using hashtags lets you mark your message as pertaining to a certain topic, then automatically include that message in a stream with everyone else’s that include the same hashtag. What do those # mean? That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Build a landing pad.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page. It also provides a way for users to learn about the staff and volunteers that make up your organization’s network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

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. Paginator: These tools organize your social sources and streams into neat and organized pages. Technology Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

It enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. Marshall Kirkpatrick pinged me about SplashCast.

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MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening. Kellogg Foundation The W.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

LifeStreams: Individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

This means that a crucial element of the Facebook presence must be the ability to 'pull in' content from elsewhere using RSS. There are some applications that let you automatically cross-post content using RSS or API - but it is a hit or miss as to what works. I was using to share blog posts, but not totally automatic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

I've been following Christian Kreutz 's blog, CrissCrossed Blog , which explores social changes through communication and focuses on the impact, potential and challenges of using Web2.0 Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. NpTech Talk. " Jason is spot on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. Benefits and Considerations.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

One of the most intriguing value offerings of Social Media in direct relation to social learning is that there is an endless stream of content being updated live, clicks away from the learner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Including media consumption and interactions per post, as well as the number of fans who have hidden you from their stream. He Blogs at [link] regularly speaks at nonprofit conferences and loves to see how technology helps nonprofits further their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. Further, they don't even need to create their own content, just as a museum curator rarely hangs his/her own work next to a Da Vinci. They do, however, need to be subject matter experts. The other terms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts. Drew Bernard has a blog about conversation, technology, activism, and life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues. Marnie Webb posted this comment: "I think a critical second step for nonprofits is to use RSS to syndicate the tag stream (for lack of a better phrase) onto their own website." since I use it as a teaching tool.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Bruce’s daily routine includes using an RSS reader/dashboard filled with the best blogs and keyword searches. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog. So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Rumor has it that David Krumlauf was taking great notes, so I'm hoping he'll blog them or fill in some gaps here. . Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful. When you make updates to the Page, it appears in the streams of your fans or people who have joined your page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

However if you bathe in the stream of information you get plenty. Wade through this stream without holding on and the key is not worrying about missing something. He suggested taking a critical look at what type of information you are currently wading through and as much as possible move your swim to RSS. Scanning is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. RSS Readers. Life Stream. Photo by Stitch. The phrase comes from Jeremiah Owyang in a post titled ' Stop Fondling the Hammer and Focus on the House."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Now I have found way too many.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

That's Allan Benamer who writes the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Augustine on his blog that goes along with his tagline, "Confessions of a Non-Profit IT Director." " (Allan's blog isn't the only nonprofit technology blog to mix the themes of nonprofit technology and spirituality - take for example here and here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0

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