Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. ve found it pays for me to respond quickly I've found that the people linking to me and writing a blog often have content that I'm interested in. In short, ditch the guilt, embrace the serendipity! I developed a list here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I’m overwhelmed daily, just like everyone else, by the amount of information that’s available from, for and about our sector of technology and social benefit. So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS Why? Tags: guest blogging RSS. This is just a starting place.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Try changing out the organization name and key staff names to match your organization’s information and give it a try! Find blogs about your sector and subscribe in the same way, via RSS. Finding Feeds.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. Require Minimal Information. RSS as a Replacement. Enable RSS so visitors can keep up with your blog activity with Google Reader (my preference). But that’s not the case.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

As a reader, you’ll have the flexibility to consume information across the whole spectrum or to just subscribe to the individual blog that speaks to your needs and interests. Second, npENGAGE is built on the content from five leading nonprofit blogs. To know npENGAGE is to know three key elements. First, npENGAGE is home to nine blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Some of the questions raised in the webinar chat focused on the role of public media organizations as content creators and how community-driven engagement fits in the work they do. is our community directly informing the services we provide? Content Map Template. The questions he raised include: ??is Start Joining.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s important to segment your list of subscribers because it helps you send content to certain people that’s more relevant and customized to them. The more specific you’re able to get with your segments, the better you can prepare and write content that will speak to your readers directly and address their interests. Map Content.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

More databases now have protocols and mechanisms that allow you to pull your data out and publish it online, so your site can always have your most current information, no updating required. Remixing the content: Government content can't be copyrighted, so you're free to grab and reuse any government created content on the site.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. Information. I have a confession. That was one of the reasons that lead me to the streamline goal and as part of that a blog redesign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

Blogging and WordPress can also be used as the Content Management System for your new mobile website. Thanks to RSS, any new post that you publish to your blog automatically gets published to your mobile website. For more info, see Pricing Information. Step Two :: Sign up for Mofuse Premium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. Many times, I'm asked by newcomers to RSS readers what is the best way to get started is finding blogs to read. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. There's not even a description of what the blogs do. Absolutely true!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

.&# I recently had the opportunity to connect with Marshall to discuss the report and the insights RWW discovered through the process of aggregating and distilling so much information from experts and Web users. Review the Table of Contents and read the report introduction now, or learn more in the following interview.

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Forj

JUNE 15, 2021

Deb said AVMA “blossomed” when this platform was built, simply because the organization was given the ability to build courses with valuable information that they never were able to before. Listen to the full episode on RSS here , or follow our Spotify to be the first to get notifications when a new episode drops!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I have always been proud to support WWT both during the telesummit and during the rest of the year with other offline meetups, online content, and more. It’s free, you can set up as many of them as you like, and you can choose to get roundups or individual alerts as well as subscribe via email or RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. 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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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions.

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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. Now I have found way too many.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. Also, text alerts are limited to 160 characters, so if you want to do a call to action or inform your subscribers beyond a 160 characters, then you are going to need a mobile website/page to do it.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Some of the key attributes that you may want to include: a welcome page/message that highlights who you are and the calls to action – remember that it’s more important for people to take the action related to your campaign than it is to only join your page/group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Before we go too far, let me start by saying, “Content is King.” Without great content, the following tactics and tools are limited at best. Focus on producing great content all the time. 1) Learn From Your Content If you’re not learning you’re getting dumber! What content is being viewed for the longest time?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I’ve discovered some wonderful discussion threads about one of my favorite topics: Information Overload and Strategies for Coping. As George Siemens points out the issue of information overload is not new. Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site. Pick something to focus on and go deep.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" Remember, content is still king.

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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. Understand how information overload might be effecting you and take a break to assess and rethink. Don't limit high quality information , filter out the crap.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The What and Why? Marketing and Distribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Tech has radically altered production and transmission of knowlege and information. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology. Jon Lebkowsky.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. The core benefit of Jumo is it’s ability to surface news and information about the causes and charities you support in a central location. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

As a reader, you’ll have the flexibility to consume information across the whole spectrum or to just subscribe to the individual blog that speaks to your needs and interests. This will give npENGAGE the unique distinction of being a new site with years of proven, useful content already present. npENGAGE’s blogs are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Content is lifeblood of your page. Start with information tab: be complete, accurate, and honest. Wall Tab - accuracy updates of information. Write Something" lets you post rich content". More interactive content is better - the Wall is a history of interactive. Exclusive content is good".

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Try changing out the organization name and key staff names to match your organization’s information and give it a try! You can then click on the linked “Feed” word that has the RSS icon next to it (the icon looks like a signal).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis.

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