Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2004

It easy - if you know how to subscribe via RSS. A study done by Yahoo in October claims that only 12% of internet users know what RSS is, and only 4% are actively using it. What is RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The RSS information from a site is known as its feed. But its REALLY easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. Keep up the good work!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Commenting. Photo by Stitch Throughout the month of October, NTEN's WeAreMedia worked on building the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box. Nonprofit social media techies filled the pages with links to tools, tips, and tutorials for these types of social media tools: Monitoring. Blogging Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Commenting. Throughout the month of October, NTEN's WeAreMedia. worked on building the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box. Nonprofit social media techies filled the pages with links to tools, tips, and tutorials for these types of social media tools: Monitoring. Blogging Tools. Podcasting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 It lets you bookmark to multiple sites with one click. 3 Beth 12.01.06

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Commenting. Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. You can still participate and you might even win a cool t-shirt.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. And Kontribune is a community newsletter that lets the audience add comments or content. You may already be using content curation tools if you visit the web on a regular basis. The Human Element.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Enter Hashtags. Update: Here's the feed

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going. CiviCRM has a great forum for community.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment The Magic of Giving › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Filed under photos , unplugged.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment ‹ Today something good happened Don José › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0

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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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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. Blogs, social networks, social news and bookmarking sites are easy to monitor through RSS readers. She started seeing the pay-off, too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow. before I’m spread far to thin, and Firefox starts piling the tabs into a menu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? .&# I’ve been giving some mindful attention to my system for professional learning online, using social media – and blog reading habits are definitely a part of that system.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Have a blogroll.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

It's double work -- if I read a friend's tweet or if I ask a question and get a response, I bookmark the tweet url into del.icio.us Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments. " Corey P of the 501c3Cast uses a rss feed for "nonprofit" search with Terraminds. I have an inelegant solution. and tag it.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. 2 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. 2 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. 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.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Share and Enjoy: 2 Comments comment advertising » Nonprofit Video – Going mainstream [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

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. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Leave a comment on a post. Is my perspective already shared in the comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. The worst thing you can do is ignore people who ask you questions or share comments. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter.

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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!" Leave comments on blogs. You can also setup a RSS feed. Add your comments below.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Bookmark this link — youre going to want it someday, and its virtually impossible to find from the irs.gov homepage. Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 10:00 AM Labels: IRS , Mark Hager , research friday , Scope of the Sector 1 comments: Travis Butterfield said.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Please feel free to add your own tips in the comments. and ma.gnolia for sites and blogs that people have bookmarked with a tag related to your topic like, homeschooling and homeschool. Comment on other people's posts about your topic. Make sure your blog has an rss feed so that people can subscribe to it in a feed reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Jon's comments on plone comments. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Tools: Commenting. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field. you work in. Tools: Monitoring. Participate: Joining the conversation with your audience. and yes, many of the tools that follow can be used to participate.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Bookmarks: del.icio.us RSS Reader: I am in the process of switching from bloglines to google reader because google reader offers an easier way to organize on the fly and the it analyzes what you are actually reading. A new form of work advoidance.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. link] 17 Dec 2007 social bookmarking With all the junk email we receive it seems to me that rss and social networking sites will become the primary way we communicate with each other. Link to the original story. Christopher S.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2007

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!" You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. e-collaboration??? Doesn't tagging create information overload?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. The comments are a focus group with our influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank.

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