Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Until I finally “got it.&# Even if you don’t read the post that comes in your RSS Reader, that content isn’t lost and the knowledge is still at your footsteps. How do you create a tag?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The report also includes our new directory of consultants and designers who help nonprofits implement these Content Management Systems."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. This visual tool also has some helpful exploring options for finding new information sources. More Resources.

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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. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it doesn't have to cost a ton: this video is made with basic tools that are free to use. Doing Good. Have you made a video like this?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The multimedia platform is managed by Link TV and utilizes a back catalog of development-related videos as well as new content procured for the site.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).   Here's what she shared: Basically we track all these different ways people respond to and share content (like blog posts).   Here's what she shared: Basically we track all these different ways people respond to and share content (like blog posts).

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

None of the content is changing or moving, it’s just about changing what shows in the address bar. My feeds are all on FeedBurner, so that was an easy switch. Folks subscribed to my complete feed shouldn’t see any difference. It makes sense on many levels. Anyone know?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Or, maybe you bookmarked it and still can’t sort through your tabs. It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. How it works for nonprofits: This makes your content gathering easy. That’s where Delicious comes in. Foursquare.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Most of the content was (and is) user generated. "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools? Make Time for Reflection. Take Breaks.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Through these simple steps and reviewing Savvy Social Media Webinar you will be armed with the tools and resources needed to create your next social media strategy with confidence. Hone in on the ones where your supporters are and where they are most likely to engage with your content. Use the tools provided.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

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. Anyway, I noticed that Sonny had his "Read/Write" lists as RSS feeds going down the left side of his blog. Now I have found way too many.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I attended the " Tag You Are It " session at NTC by Ami Dar and Katrin Verclas and was exposed to a lot of new technology tools. So, I set up a little action learning project ( cambodia4kids ) to play with these tools to see how they might be useful for technology infused curriculum or nonprofit use. Who is author?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). It doesn't just take everything from a feed. A: They talk about tools!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Make Time for Reflection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.

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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. In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Armed with a better understanding of social media and the tools, I realized I didn’t need to blast out our message to everyone at once all the time. I became less concerned with the content that I was creating and started listening to the conversations that our audience and similar organizations were engaged in. Look at me!”

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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). Video is the most compelling content online. Video is the most popular content online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. I have one blog post here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. You can tweet us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog. BackType: Another Listening Tool.

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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. In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter.

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Benefit Stumbleupon Newsletter Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

It's part of my job to investigate the best tools for engaging potential activists and members. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon. Basically you submit a timely Url, summarize your content and post it under a category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s either as a category of stuff or as a retrieval tool." social network and community sites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. These can be framed, or laminated, and turned into a bookmark, placemat, or shrunk to be coasters. Show the work, don’t just tell.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Kevin Gamble who reads more feeds than I do tweeted about this blog post by Stow Boyd. It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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