Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. What Is Content Curation? Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. The Human Element.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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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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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

Here are a handful of communication tools we’ve been using and raving about. External Communication Tools. You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. Buffer allows you to schedule your posts for social media ahead of time and curate content from other websites through feeds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. You can share these Blists.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Creating Great Content. When it comes to creating great content, there are four important elements, especially with social media, as you can see in the image at the top of this post. Your tools are defined both by the goal of what you want to do, but also by the people – are they tools that that audience uses and likes?

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

If you’re lucky enough to have a decent budget, you can look into social media monitoring tools like Radian6. These tools provide great in-depth resources, but most of us will need to find an alternative due to financial constraints.

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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. So, I set up a little action learning project ( cambodia4kids ) to play with these tools to see how they might be useful for technology infused curriculum or nonprofit use. Who is author?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

He goes on to mention that they're still learning about their audience and how they access the content on the organization's blog. He points to google analytics as a tool they have started using to track their audience. The newsbox explanation seemed clear and also the wizard tools seemed flexible. drives traffic c.)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. 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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! Just also to say – I don’t think of WordPress and Joomla as “competitors&# – they are both really good tools, and great at what they do.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

And that means utilizing smartphone apps that help them stay on top of their site and its content. To begin with, Ulysses is an awesome writing tool that gives bloggers a terrific experience. And although iPhones, for instance, come with great built-in editing tools, Snapseed goes a lot further.

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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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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Here are seven tools for nonprofits to maximize their marketing success: Razoo. This tool is easy-to-use: users are able to craft their own fundraising pages within a few minutes. A major time-saver for whoever manages your organization’s social media content. Include RSS feeds. Impressive, right? Facebook for Nonprofits.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side. ” moment. If so what are they?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week’s posts had three topics: Content , Comments and Extras. Categories and Tags : Using content categories like (presentation, case study, opinion and so on) can help people find the type of content they are after, as well as categories and tags that indicate topics, conferences and tools. Look for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Fortunately, there are some free tools you can use that make it easy to get an email campaign organized and attract the interest of donors. Another thing you can do with MailChimp is create an RSS campaign. The test looks at the subject line, html source code, content and even links within your email to determine trouble areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics. How are you using AideRss?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link."

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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. How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create? Using Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors!   We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others. 

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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. More >> Tools. I have a confession. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. Here's what it looks like: Concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’ve been using Feedburner for my blog RSS Feeds since 2005! It is time to self-host your RSS feed many people wondered? Rumors that Google will close Feedburner are circulating again, but this time there is an option for an RSS hosting service, although not free. And, we know right now they won’t be closing.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Now, with soooo many tools, apps and startups out there I’m more cautious. RSS is dead. I use Feedly or Flipboard for reading, but keeping the content fresh was a challenge. So am I the last of my friends to find this great little tool? I used to try everything just for the sake of checking it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. 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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2010

RSS readers worked for us in the early phases of social media, but as more people are connected through social networks and sharing and publishing information, there is more and more information out there. There are also new and more sophisticated tools that we can add to our toolbox to deal with the resulting information overload.

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Forj

JUNE 15, 2021

Member value had increased, according to Deb, and activity reports and commenting tools in the platform made it easier to gage how the users were reacting to the content, as well as how the organization can best suit the needs of their veterinary professionals. These are just the highlights!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. 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. Not sure what RSS is?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). LAMS – not as much an LMS as a curriculum development tool.

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