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. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

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. If you are not using an RSS Reader, pick one and learn how to use it like a rock star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Twitter Search.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Search on Google Blog Search and Technorati --two blog search engines, for other people writing about your topic. In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." Read other blogs about your topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Here's how to search on Technorati. Found from this Technorati Search ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. posted to blog, ping technorati. -email to list of friends. send your video to appropriate groups on video hosting sites. blogs with similar content and leave your url.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. Put a prompt to subscribe by rss and email at the top of your blog. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Allow email subscription ( Feedburner or Feedblitz will help you do this). Keep it short.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.) Technorati Tags: npblogtipping , nptech , blogtipping { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.03.07 at 3:22 am Dear Michelle, Thanks for the Blogtipping!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. News Feeds. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Tracking Blog Conversations. Ice Rocket. BlogDigger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07 at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2005

A while back, I was searching for RSS feeds and David Geilhufe shared his bloglines feeds with me and suggested others do the same, using the nptech tag. I've also been collecting public bloglines feeds from nonprofit tech colleagues (see the link list "Feeds I'm Eating"). Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , effectiveness , npo , ngo , workingsmart I'll be curious to read more of these experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. News Feeds. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Tracking Blog Conversations. Ice Rocket. BlogDigger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

If you want to follow a specific space, consider finding the right people twittering about that space, and building a blended RSS feed in Yahoo Pipes , and adding that to your RSS reader , instead of using the Twitter interface itself. t just blurt out your podcast url. Why build a persona and add people if you???re

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Podcasting. Text messaging. What People Were Saying.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Tell Technorati you have a blog. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Allow readers to email posts to other people. Enable subscription by email with Feedblitz. Include images or graphics with every post to catch the reader's eye. Blogs are a visual medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Get Found on Technorati. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. Tap the Blogs.

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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!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. Having people with technical expertise helped get them to the 261 feeds they currently supply. Technorati Tags: wes08sep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Chris Locke's post of various booklists people have assembled at Amazon made me realize that the good old book is a problematic resource these days for those of us who inhabit the blogosphere - you can't just link to it, or receive it in your rss feed. Technorati Tags: nptech , books , wiki So let's do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Also we've been using podcasts with some success on mnartists.org just by making and "audio only" feed in our existing RSS implementation. and the podcast feed is at: Radio mnartists Podcast. and the podcast feed is at: Radio mnartists Podcast. Technorati Tags: cambodia , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

But a bit of reading convinced me that our blog would have far better visibility in one of the standard blogging sites that build RSS feeds, support tagging, are indexed by Technorati and other services, and in general are a full part of the hum of internet conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The part that I found most amazing was the the interface design of a VR space inside of Second Life that integrates google maps, RSS, and Second Life. The dots represent data - some brought in by RSS feeds pertaining to geocoded stories from that area or you can click through to a web site. Technorati Tags: iasummit2007

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

The organization's web site welcome page there is an RSS feed of headlines from the blog. Technorati Tag: nptech. I found Jeffrey Veen's blog under his photo with " Visit Jeff's Personal Site " ForumOne - The blog is a collaborative blog with its own url. What metrics are appropriate ones to follow on a weblog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

feed), and tools that allow you to find other people and organizations who are working to solve the same issues you are working to solve. To that end, CompuMentor/TechSoup has produced a lot of articles on blogging and related technologies like RSS and podcasting. RSS for Nonprofits. Weblogs and the Nonprofit Sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. RSS reading patterns are changing. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency. I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). s URL or IP address. s readership. s blog into their aggregator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can look at Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics (grain of salt about looking at numbers only) and the Feed Subscribers Trends from Feedburner. If not, why? If yes, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

It feeds into a variety of publications that I offer, some for free and some for sale. A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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