Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. This micro-blogging tool puts her in contact with warm and welcoming "mommy bloggers" who repost her stuff. She started seeing the pay-off, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization. Johannes).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Many of the service’s most active users were uppset and the changes prompted petitions , outrage on Twitter , and a strong response from Iranian bloggers who relied on the service to dodge government censorship. Soon after Google acquired PostRank, a powerful RSS tool, without warning the service stopped accepting new accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

To hold steady with RSS subscribers and visitors. Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. John's River that I live streamed with my N95. To keep a consistent publishing schedule.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader).

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. without leaving the virtual world!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

Bookmark this link — youre going to want it someday, and its virtually impossible to find from the irs.gov homepage. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. So, are those the ones you meant when you asked the question? Okay, so how many tax-exempts are there?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. The Impact of Web 2.0 What on earth is a Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I had already been working for NWF on facebook and myspace but I wanted to test out more social bookmarking and networking sites. When something goes popular on digg it is picked up in a number of dig rss feeds that feed into blogs. Some bloggers will also repost dig stories as well. our blog wasn't used to this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." 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. human aspects of technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. that really deepen my own understanding of social bookmarking. The messages work their way through a series of filters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Some education technology bloggers, like Tony Karrer. Chris Brogan recently provided some insights about bookmarked blog posts and how they can help increase traffic. Twittered - for velocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. don't click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. Act 1: What.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

You can set up a free blog via Blogger (my preferred platform) and set it to private, identifying a key set of people who are allowed to author and read posts. And since people can subscribe to blogs via RSS, staff can select the departments they want to follow "on-demand" without getting bogged down by lots of all-staff emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Clipix :: clipix.com. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Clipix :: clipix.com. clipping articles and links extremely easy. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Clipix :: clipix.com. clipping articles and links extremely easy. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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