NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

We can respond, participate in a conversation, build relationships with others, debunk a rumor or correct misinformation, help someone out, and much more. Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The other day of I saw the term "Conversation Graph" in a title on a post by Brian Solis. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex. Click to see larger image And, blogging was not just about conversations on your home base, but also on other blogs. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well.

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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. folder where I track references to my name, my projects, or new contributions to blog-comment conversations I???ve In short, ditch the guilt, embrace the serendipity! I don't feel pressured to read everything, I'm a big scanner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace." She describes the value in terms of avoiding information overload for busy professionals.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Thanks to everyone who shared opinions and those who I know will continue to weigh in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

How-to Create a Social Media Strategy : Keep talking: I’d love to continue the conversation with those that were there today, and everyone else. We Are Media : this wiki is another excellent source of information and examples of social media for social impact compiled by the nonprofit technology community. Let me know what you think!

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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)? There were other questions and some good conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

On Twitter , look up hashtags that your community uses and follow them to track conversations. Be sure to use @ replies to bring people into your conversation directly or thank them for engaging with you. Be sure to use relevant (but not spammy!) hashtags in your posts to connect them into related topics.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Many public media organizations are looking to use social media as a way to have conversations directly with community members. Don’t feel like you have to think of something to say, simply use what you’re hearing in your listening online to reply and join the conversation. Using Social Media. Start Creating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

The emphasis of the session was on how to find conversations online and respond to them. I like how Bryan and Doug framed using several social media tools (google alerts, tags, and rss) to find conversations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But since I’m not on twitter anymore, and I don’t read my RSS feeds as often as I should. I know for many of you this is old news. In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. It’s great – chock full of good information, and some very, very interesting research.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation. I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

We’ll cover social bookmarking, tagging, RSS and more, plus the tools you can start using for free to do it all. I will be posting my slides on SlideShare and this blog after the event to continue the conversation started during the webinar. More Information and Register Now! How you can join.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

I got the first whiff of this conversation from Jon Stahl's Blog. Namely, to be bloggish, your site must connect to the network of conversations and people that are also being bloggish in a formally recognized way. Technically it should happen via RSS, trackback, and blogrolling - but it's not the technology that is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of. Have an offline conversation with someone about it. rss [link] com/nocyberbulli es. via en email from Andy Carvin. I like this call to action! I just wanted to post a reminder that today is Stop Cyberbullying Day, and. Hundreds of bloggers. So please join me.

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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). What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Niels' Blog has a post called " Wanted - A President Candidate That Blogs " wondering if presidential candidates understand what it means to have a conversation online and a related post called " How Not To Blog."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). If you been following this thread, I was prompted to explore blog metrics in this post after reading what Avinash Kaushik had to day on the topic : The blog metrics he identified were: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Think of all the places your organization’s name, staff, projects, programs or focus area could come up in the news, in campaigns, or in online conversations.

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Forj

JUNE 15, 2021

Essential conversations were held to be transparent about what the organization needed. Listen to the full episode on RSS here , or follow our Spotify to be the first to get notifications when a new episode drops! AVMA’s digital transformation journey required time and collaboration among the association’s executives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Marnie Webb, CompuMentor RSS for Nonprofits Marnie Webb, CompuMentor So you wanna start a blog? Jenn Thompson, Blogging as an Effective Fundraising Strategy Nonprofits and RSS Kris Bell (will be offered by Npower Webinar). Here's a sampling of articles: Marnie Webb, CompuMentor Ready to Start Blogging ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2013

She currently serves on the design team and faculty of the NoVo Foundation''s Move to End Violence — a 10-year movement building initiative to end gender-based violence. She lives in Oakland with her 8-year-old son, Jonah Ravi, and her partner, Adrienn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Expanded Features for Conversation and Connection. Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page. Organizations that want to encourage conversation, particularly conversation around their cause, can always set up a Group on LinkedIn.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Low barrier to entry. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. This requires engaging in a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

I’ve noticed on Google + that it is useful participate in the threads of other people’s posts where good reflective conversations are happening related to topics and ideas I am interested in learning more about. Ask clarifying questions, provide links to useful links that answer someone’s questions. #

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. It looks very promising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. The online conversations that are starting around those issues are very exciting. Then someone (I really don't remember who) suggested that I go ahead and publish those interesting bits on the web.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. The platform lets you have private, one-on-one conversations or create group channels. It also enables you to look over the messages and notifications coming in on any of your social media platforms and lets you respond right from your account. We love Slack.

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