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. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed?

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

I’m not alone…it seems many formerly active bloggers are now sharing most of their content everywhere but a traditional blog. My posterous has its own RSS feed so feel free to subscribe if you want to keep up with me. No matter how hard I tried to make it easier, blogging is still a chore. Easy to share out.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

seems many formerly active bloggers are now sharing most of their content everywhere but a traditional blog. My posterous has its own RSS feed so feel free to subscribe if you want to keep up with me. For now, I'm going to leave the feeds separate although if this works out, I'll redirect my established Feedburner feed there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

Multiple staff members are bloggers , which takes the weight off of one person. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • TED Fellow profiles, social media tips , reporting back from events , calls to action ). It's easy to share. It's easy to subscribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Put your feed button above the fold. We inevitably associate a professional design with how seriously the blogger or webmaster takes what they do. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts. This is where people expect it to be and is also the first place they look. By doing so, you??? First impressions do count.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

One of their calls to action, is to be a "Blogger for Human Rights": If you are a blogger, you can use your bully pulpit to stand with the victims and activists to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane treatment in wartime, and campaign to bring offenders to justice. blogging human rights

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

Blogger has been having a few issues lately, but they're working to resolve their problems and will hopefully restore the comments soon. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Sorry about the missing comments, folks! Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. If you are not using an RSS Reader, pick one and learn how to use it like a rock star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

May 24, 2011 5:51 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Choose the “feed” option and then hit save on that alert. Add Feeds to Netvibes. Twitter Search.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Networking posted by Jessica Sadoway , Nonprofit and Social Media Blogger Just last Friday, The Collaboration Prize announced its third annual winner (congratulations to the Adoption Coalition of Texas !). Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. Tags: RSS. He suggested MINT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. There are other ways to measure your RSS reach. But all is not well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

April 7, 2011 2:05 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

So, I'm posting this here on my blog to alert my Cambodian blogger colleagues (whose email I don't have) that Christian is coming to your country. " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs. Ping him over at his blog. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

May 10, 2011 2:44 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

If you are an RSS subscriber to Connection Café, your feed will be automatically updated with the main npENGAGE feed. From there you can decide if the main feed is right for you or if one of the more specialized feeds is a better fit. We look forward to more of the same in our new home on npENGAGE!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2005

I was on the digital divide network trying to figure out how to make my RSS feed from here go to the DDN blog - and clicked on "read other blogs" and there it was! Anne Davis points a useful post on Elizabeth Fullerton's blog called "What makes a successful blogger?"

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2011

June 1, 2011 1:28 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ▼ June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2008

There's quite a few of nonprofit tech bloggers in there too. Alltop is a one-page listing of RSS feeds of the "top" blogs in an industry or sector - created by Guy Kawaski. I just discovered that my blog is listed in alltop nonprofit version. You can now add a badge to your site. Here's the official badge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

February 21, 2011 2:12 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Thanks Travis for being a guest blogger for us! What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Great information! We look forward to seeing you and hearing your Keynote Address on Friday! Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2011

March 23, 2011 2:11 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2011

What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

May 3, 2011 10:25 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

April 29, 2011 4:48 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) ShareThis Subscribe via email ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Subscribe to our RSS feed Research Friday RSS feed Comments feed Blog Archive ▼ 2011 (39) ► June (6) Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Withi.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter. By a very wide margin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. Put a prompt to subscribe by rss and email at the top of your blog. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. Don't be afraid of white space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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