Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

8 Great tips and the resources to educate you on each of them. More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email. Check out How to Use RSS in Sphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

One of our most valued nonprofit resources is our time, especially in these days of tighter budgets and cutbacks in funding. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. We've come the close of the first week's round of We Are Media Toolbox fun. What do we have to show for it? This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring.

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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. She provides a resource. Blogs, social networks, social news and bookmarking sites are easy to monitor through RSS readers. Everyone wins!

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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. For more information on content curation, consider the following resources: Beth Kanter's wiki on Content Curation. You may already be using content curation tools if you visit the web on a regular basis.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2008

I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. 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 How can the two impulses be combined? and tag it.

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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. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Are you spending organizational resources writing outreach materials to your program participants. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. into an RSS Reader????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I was working with an informal network of organizations that had resources and reach beyond our organization’s capacity and were also focused on our same issues. I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in. I no longer felt alone. How can you work together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Discussion about other services to transfer social bookmarks to sparked up immediately, and users petitioned Yahoo not to sunset the service. Soon after Google acquired PostRank, a powerful RSS tool, without warning the service stopped accepting new accounts.

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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. It will use up server resources at some server farm which uses electricity (which means, probably burning dirty coal, or natural gas).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. Does the growth of visual content affect who within an organization produces digital content and how those resources are managed? I''d love to hear what you think.

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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. Provide quick human answers to your followers, ask questions, direct people to great resources (not your own 1:20 ratio - point to one of your resources for every twenty resources), stay in touch without being intrusive, no when to direct message, be funny, etc.

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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. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts.

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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). technologies to see about rates of adoption. But guess what the largest number of all was?

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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

MAY 13, 2006

Tagging can be used to develop a shared archive of resources for a pre-defined group of people (an organization's staff or community of practice. Adding RSS tools allows some additional benefits of developing content. How do people use these articles or resources? Who is in the group? What have you learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Add links to resources reviewing the tools and specific how-to tips or tutorials (5 minutes). We've narrowed down the categories to the ones that many nonprofits are already using and organized them so they relate to key themes of the Tactical Track. you work in. Tools: Monitoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 e-collaboration???

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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. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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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. Another nice educational piece: RSS Explained , by D.C. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. area community technology activist Phil Shapiro.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! Bookmark this link — youre going to want it someday, and its virtually impossible to find from the irs.gov homepage. Disclaimer Friday, April 22, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many Nonprofits 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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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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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]. I hope you find the calendar useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

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. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. One of these days I need to find the resources to document this in a way that might be useful to other people. (I

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Just put in the RSS feed of your blog, and then use the Advanced Options to add a preface or suffix to your posts (this is where you could say, as I do, “New post:&# or something). I used the RSS feed of a specific tag, because I didn’t necessarily want every single item I bookmark to be tweeted out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. 2) Bookmarks can???t Social Bookmarking. Act 1: The Problem.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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 should, however, be careful about how much of your resources you pour into your MySpace mission.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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 should, however, be careful about how much of your resources you pour into your MySpace mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. As for open solutions, Charlie is correct- the majority of non profits do not have the dedicated resources to implement an open source solution or even something ‘low-cost’ such as Access or Excel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. I fondly refer to it as the firehose.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

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. create new pages for new areas of interest), refine mission statements, and aggregate research resources in a central area. I like Wik.is

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