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. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Yes, there are licensing fees, but they pale in comparison to what it would cost if we had to rely on an open source product and maintain it ourselves. It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools. For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. Britt Bravo covers it here. Looking for a primer? Check this slideshow.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. As I mentioned in the screencast, you can use RSS and javascript to publish your del.icio.us sharpie.??? Most services offer a ???tag

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites. Example Wikieducator ). White Label Social Networking Sites - Too Much?

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