Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Quality not quantity doesn’t mean that each post reads like a press release, or a page from your annual report. Have an RSS feed and comments. The number one mistake I see nonprofits make is to set up a blog that doesn't have an RSS feed or comments. Newsreaders are my top choice. Blogging is part of social media.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. And people in orgs hear all this buzz about this thing or that thing, and feel hard pressed and stressed to get on the bandwagon.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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. Mash-ups, the interrelation of at least two data feeds, are rearranging content in ways that were never imagined by the content owners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

20% use blogs, but 64% of those use them "rarely" -11% use RSS feeds -11% use podcasting. I do make a point to cover at the beginning of any workshop - don't jump into social media before you've answered these questions: Are there pressing organizational issues to address? A few highlights related to social media: . -23%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I put less emphasis on one-way communications like websites, newsletters and press releases, and focused on more two-way mediums like blogging, Facebook and face-to-face exchanges. I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Include bloggers on your press list. When you are creating your press list, be sure to search on Technorati and Google Blog Search to find bloggers who are writing about your organization's issues and send them your press release as well. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. So here it goes.10 First of all, what are they?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Check out the Purpose Prize , which is looking to award up to $100K to social innovators who are creating new ways to solve pressing social issues, ranging from education to health care to poverty and global warming. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Do you know someone over 60 who is changing the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. it.org.uk ???real???

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 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!" You can read all about the strides weve made since 7 million here on our official press release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

The press release describes it as: A free service allowing bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the Web. FairShare allows anyone creating text content to submit an RSS feed of their work and choose a Creative Commons license to determine how it can be shared.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" But, nonetheless, first Tweet locally and then syndicate broadly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

They've been getting a good bit of favorable press. Another nice educational piece: RSS Explained , by D.C. If you have not yet quite figured out what the talk about feeds and feedreaders is all about, pour yourself a nice cup of coffee and settle in with his article. Try out a free beta account!

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

Reporters can subscribe to the RSS feed. Both Allyson and Stephen are available for press interviews. Several times a week Allyson will blog about trends in nonprofit technology and online marketing, and discuss how nonprofits can leverage social media and Web 2.0 to maximize their outreach. About Care2.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

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!" Here are the details: Where: National Press Club (Holeman Lounge) When: Thursday, Feb.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Currently claiming 17,150 subscribers to its RSS feed, this blog's mision statement tells us it is " dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 In addition to telling us about the applications, he follows their fortunes in the trade press and blogosphere. products and companies.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Monitor the Results. Then Turn the Frown Upside Down.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

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Care2

MAY 17, 2007

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Care2

MAY 7, 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!" 60) Search « Care2 Stats for June 2006 | Main | Does your organization have a community?

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" People definitely saw the URL in the local press and on local media websites and responded.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 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!" 60) Search « How Sticky is Facebook?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 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!" at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Papyrus, printing press. You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. Take a minute and jot down all of the breakthroughs in communications history you can think of. No, no, seriously. Write 'em down. Or type 'em out, if you're like me. Did you think of smoke signals? Morse code.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

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!" And then you’ll probably fail some more. Don’t give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A day in the PR office of an orchestra is never the same; it goes beyond cranking out press releases and pitches. ll have to come up with ways to engage them and provide them with useful materials that could easily be integrated into their group (RSS feeds, videos etc.). s what makes it fun. read and participate???

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. OurMedia & Internet Archive - a bit more technical, archived forever, nonprofit organization, RSS and community building tools. press release. existing and target. newsletter.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Not to mention a lot of press coverage in The Huffington Post , The Wall Street Journal , Fast Company , Mashable , The Chronicle of Philanthropy , and The New York Times. Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" Who needs sleep when there are babies in such desperate need of surgery?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" Who needs sleep when there are babies in such desperate need of surgery?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Being proactive rules out using RSS feeds to populate our Twitter feed. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter. In addition I felt it was important that we be as human as possible, highlighting not only our Fellows but our staff, and empowering them to be more effective advocates.

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