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). Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2004

Would you like to be informed whenever there is a new posting to read on this - or any other - site? 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? But its REALLY easy. Just click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

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. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Explore tools that help you slow down that river of RSS information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you. It's free, but if you want to grab the results in a RSS, it looks like that will be the pro service.

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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. We looked at the site's stats over the last year and made the goal: double the site's traffic in the coming year. Be Out There.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. It was way back when you could click through the entire Yahoo directory and web sites had gray backgrounds. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. Oh, and my point was.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

I try to slow to down and summarize the best concepts, ideas in a blog post. But before I can do that, I need to capture or bookmark the best stuff. This is difficult on Google + as it isn’t built into the system (yet), so I’ve been bookmarking into another system. #7

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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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. Do search at site for the first time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

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. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Explore tools that help you slow down that river of RSS information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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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. However, curation is not only about what the audience wants but also about finding content that would expand the audience’s horizons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. It lets you bookmark to multiple sites with one click.

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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. His point 5 is something that sounds like a dream come true to me to monitor Twitter for NpTech related items I know I'm not alone in finding it much easier to share information over Twitter than by blogging or tagging in a social bookmarking app.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Increasing numbers of nonprofits are using the social web on their sites, but what I don't see enough of is explainations for their constituents of how to use these tools. On the bottom of its home page it has links to its rss feeds as well as to Facebook, del.ico.us, Yahoo and Google: Next to the RSS feeds is a link to "What's RSS?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. I doubt you’ll look back. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. Keep up the good work!

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Citizen journalism. Google Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2006

Michael Gilbert's comments are right on: The reason tagging worked for us (and the reason it works for social bookmarking sites) is exactly as Dan Cooney describes it. 2) They used saved searches, for which they also had RSS feeds. (3) Quite an interesting thread on the riders tech list on using tagging for nonprofits.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 Thanks for a great site!! 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. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { CiviCRM has a great forum for community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization. Tyler Willis ) 7. Johannes).

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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. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. It's messy.

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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. Even sites that do encourage use of images or video as part of professional sharing tend to make those elements optional while text is required.

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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. But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter? First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow.

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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. technologies to see about rates of adoption.

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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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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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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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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

Adding RSS tools allows some additional benefits of developing content. Marc notes that these resources are not on any of their "official sites" which presumbably have more formal content development pipeline/process - so they have some more flexibility in presenting and experimenting. Who is in the group?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com. Laura Lee Dooley's Twitter Tools Bookmarks. Twitter Handbook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

and ma.gnolia for sites and blogs that people have bookmarked with a tag related to your topic like, homeschooling and homeschool. To ping" just means to let a site like Technorati know that you updated your blog. Make sure your blog has an rss feed so that people can subscribe to it in a feed reader. Do both searches.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

We are working with our clients to engage constituents on sites like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. 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. Deadline to submit your post is Dec.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field. you work in. Tools: Monitoring. mission. (and

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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. 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. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. ll make so that site can???t

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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. Slide 5: I decided on these two sites because they increased page views "traffic" I was hoping that I could offer the first handshake to a new audience. our blog wasn't used to this.

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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. So, are those the ones you meant when you asked the question? Many nonprofits are on both the state and federal lists, but others appear on only one. Okay, so how many tax-exempts are there?

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