Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. on the downside, I feel so distracted and can spend lots of time in discovering these tools (and not doing other things.) One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers.

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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. Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Twitter Search.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. Consider your time. What do those # mean? Invite your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches."

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

Insider Tip: Stay tuned at lunch time on Thursday, April 5 to see who wins NTEN’s annual Lifetime Achievement Award and Community Award. Just search 12NTC on flickr to browse the conference stream and see what attendees are up to. Each session page pulls in the unique feed for that session as well.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. Sprout Social’s smart system offers marketing analytics for you to see the best times for your nonprofit’s social media interactions. It allows for you to search for documents, threads and hashtags.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

Now that I’m blogging on judisohn.com as the domain, it’s time to tackle another problem. Instead, I like to blog about whatever it is I’m passionate about at the time that it matters to me and then hope I say something that sparks a conversation. For folks who want the personal stuff, I set up a feed for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, we are living an era of content abundance. A content curator offers high value to anyone looking for quality content because finding that information (and making sense of it) requires more and more time, attention, and focus. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 21, 2018

Google’s search optimization algorithm, your email marketing platform and your RSS feed are just a few things to pay attention to and learn from. The pressure to deliver a substantial return on investment is real, and there are several strategies you can adopt to be more productive while exerting less time and effort.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In the past, most nonprofits have set up groups without requiring approval or made their group an open group, thinking that this is an easy way to have a presence on LinkedIn without having to invest a lot of time. Don’t Use News Feeds. Give the subgroup time to grow and flourish, and then perhaps launch another.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . What buttons are being used and how many times are they being accessed? That’s something to keep in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. You get summaries and then it takes you to the source.

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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. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

She acknowledges that it takes time to listen and that there is no way around it. In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. News Feeds.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page. Career pages help nonprofits and the right people to serve that organization’s cause find one another more easily than is possible on other job search sites. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The classical view suggests that people learn all of the time through meaningful experiences and through immersion in a community of practice. Many times I forget. " Corey P of the 501c3Cast uses a rss feed for "nonprofit" search with Terraminds. Via email can use up to 5 search terms.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

The disadvantage to this is in terms of search engine rankings. You can use WordPress XML files, DotClear files, or RSS/Atom feeds (which would allow import from just about any CMS platform, such as Drupal or Joomla.) The best situation would be if all pages in your site live at [link] instead of at a CNAME pointer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

She acknowledges that it takes time to listen and that there is no way around it. In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. News Feeds.

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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!" What is Earned Media? Brand Your Issue. Be Everywhere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. I called them up, let the phone ring 10 times, and nobody picked up. Web searches dont turn up much for this specific organization. Out with the old, in with the new. They reported $1.2

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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. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati is very easy to use, no more difficult than typing in a few words and hitting search button.

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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. Many people listen or watch podcasts on portable devices and at times that are most convenient to them. The What and Why? Marketing and Distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

He will join me via skype from Italy for an interview and discussion. I recorded the above skype interview as a technology back up – it is filled with great advice and worth listening to for 14 minutes. (If you’re short on time, I have a transcript linked to resources here ). A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is listens by searching for discussions about blood donations in their local area says Courtney Martin. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Although there is low volume, the listening has provided a lot of value.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Don't Have Time for Market Research? Use search and social media to get better ideas for engagement. I've seen a bunch of presentations and survey research in the last couple of there's been a lot of talk about social listening and search optimization in the NPO space for the last few years. Guest Post by Peter Genuardi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Visibility Through Search. Time Demands.   That investment is staff time as many of the tools are free.    Then again, time is one of the most valuable resources a nonprofit has.   And, as Geoff points out social media does take time and it can take away from core operations - if you let it.  

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

If they write for the blog on a regular basis, when it comes time to send out the monthly e-newsletter, or quarterly newsletter, they will have a lot of content to pull from. 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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money. But it was an exhilarating time. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. Podcasting.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 19, 2008

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Let’s think about the stages that your supporters go through as you build rapport with them over time. If a stranger lands on your website, odds are they are searching for the answer to a specific question about something going on in their lives right now. Empower them to help you on their own time and in their own ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

This diagram, credited to the “ New York Times via Ed Philp ,” (original source ) illustrates the flow of comments on a blog. that will search through blog comments for mentions. BackType Connect extends this to searching for comments, tweets, and other mentions across different platforms. It searches for links on Twitter.

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 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!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. t tell you how many times I???ve ll search my own blog to get that reference." Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. I have one blog post here. If I have a ???eureka???

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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!" By using a hashtag, it is possible to have chats that take place in real time often using [link].

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