Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

And that means utilizing smartphone apps that help them stay on top of their site and its content. You can share and open files from Google Drive and Dropbox, and the program helps with a host of organizational tricks as well as text editing, which allows the writer to keep writing without pausing to do formatting or insert links.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Consider participating or even starting a Twitter chat – the Association Cha t is a great example of a weekly chat with an online archive. Regardless of which Facebook option you choose, track which kinds of posts or content your community responds to the most to help make the most engaging space you can. hashtags.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2006

With help from Marnie , I began to understand how I could bootstrap the RSS feeds generated by del.icio.us. I created an account with Feed Digest to convert RSS feeds generated by del.icio.us into dynamic PHP includes (rather than Javascript, so that content could be indexed by search engines). resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Here are some examples from Beth from November, 2008 - I'd be interested in hearing about more data and experiences myself. Kevin Gilnack came by and wrote terrific responses to those questions. Thank you Kevin!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The way functionality changes so rapidly means that what you need to think about the options in so far as they can be helpful to what you want to do today, in case the way you want to use them is discontinued or changed.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

The comments and feedback really helped clarify thinking, confirm ideas I had, and make clear the opportunities for improvement. We’ll be using these to a much higher degree to help surface and sort content much more effectively. Here are some of the high-level key points. Definitely something we’ll be sure to tackle!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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. Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

There are a few channels such as Date & Time, Phone, SMS or Email that aren’t tied to apps but are essential for some very helpful recipes. For example, here’s the action for a recipe I quickly created that will send me a text message if the weather forecast calls for snow tomorrow. RSS is dead. Like condiments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. 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. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Be Helpful.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. You don’t need to do it for hours, but a little bit everyday will help you develop and hone the skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

When I give talks about nonprofit blogging, I often use the Case Foundation's blog as an example of a juicy blog. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • It helps readers take action. Posts cover a range of topics (e.g. It's easy to share. . It uses video. •

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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. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. NetSquared.org - putting this URL in the search term area of the alert means that if someone wrote out our URL on their blog, for example, I would get alerted.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? use monitoring tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Be Helpful.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Are you using RSS to listen, but want to know how to fine tune your listening skills? Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. That's where Yahoo Pipes can really help you. Go no further than this excellent screencast from Marshall Kirkpatrick.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Be Helpful. Otherwise, fuggetaboutit. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alanna 09.05.08 at 8:48 am That’s a ereally good point. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Be Helpful. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Going to a x.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

It is helpful to have some place where you can send people interested in your topic or chat that haven’t participated before - whether it’s a website, a blog, or just a separate Twitter account. This way, there is a group of people helping keep the conversation on track, focused on one question at a time.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content. Ultimately, choosing the right tool means choosing the tool that helps connect you with your community.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Examples: National Phrenology Network: asking people to report blooming data in their area. 350: robust advocacy. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. How do we connect? John McElhenney.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: There are a lot of people these days who want to help other people out. These sites should be working together using technology like RSS feeds. For example, you can see that Arianna Huffington is much better at writing in her post: "All for Good: A New 'Craigslist for Service'" ! Examples like the TSA and EPA blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. Be Helpful. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { Be Helpful. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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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. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. Would this help: 1) gain donors?

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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. Check out: Gabcast.com , talkshoe.com or cinch.blogtalkradio.com for some examples. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Be Helpful. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

In part one of this series , we explained the pros and cons of both tools to help nonprofits make an informed choice. If you have in-house expertise, and are doing this as a one-off project, for example, the person making the templates would have to learn the specific templating language used by the static site generator.

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