Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I'm just realizing how few people really understand how to subscribe to a blog -- this blog in particular -- using its RSS feed. The Firefox browser has done its best to "degeek" RSS with its live bookmark feature. But the live bookmarks do not give all the advantages of a full-featured feedreader, in my opinion.

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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. Now who to tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Marc Sirkin and I have been trading emails about his nonprofit's use of tags. 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. Using a unique tag, the members of the group can contribute articles and also easily find them.

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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). 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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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. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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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. 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. Technorati Tag: nptech

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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. Tags: listening.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

I met them two years ago when I did a webinar called " Ten Steps To Extension 2.0 " Kevin and I started to share RSS reader tips and habits and he pointed to Feedly an RSS reader that gives you a magazine layout and makes it easy to share links from your reader. (See Tags: rssreaders. See this review from Mashable ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

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. Another Tip : Not sure how to get RSS from the Blackbaud Sphere CMS. Not sure what RSS is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). 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.

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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. Onlywire is a great tip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. 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 and tag it. Many times I forget.

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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

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. Bookmark your posts in del.icio.us, and other social bookmarking services. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Tags: askbritt.

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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. Tags: ROI.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Tagged photos , walk. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. 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. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Tagged colalife , video , water. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. 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 Filed under ideas , video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. The feedback was great. Filed under flickr.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. The feedback was great. Filed under flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2005

A while back, I was searching for RSS feeds and David Geilhufe shared his bloglines feeds with me and suggested others do the same, using the nptech tag. I've also bookmarked them with nptech + bloglines tags in del.icio.us. Technorati Tags: nptech Any others out there?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.).

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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. Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow.

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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. Tags: guest blogging. John's River that I live streamed with my N95. Have a post?

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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. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in. Tags: Books. I put less emphasis on one-way communications like websites, newsletters and press releases, and focused on more two-way mediums like blogging, Facebook and face-to-face exchanges.

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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. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com. Laura Lee Dooley's Twitter Tools Bookmarks. Tags: social media research snippets twitter. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. I happen to catch the question above from the Idealist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." and ma.gnolia for sites and blogs that people have bookmarked with a tag related to your topic like, homeschooling and homeschool. Do both searches.

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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. Tags: guest blogging npblog.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. 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. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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