Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Yesterday, I had a lot of fun giving another webinar for Nonprofit Webinars, this time focused on DIY Social Media Management. Save time looking for news. Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Use all-day and timed events. timed events for social media posts. Why create a listening dashboard?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning takes time, but it’s something that you can start to pick up very quickly and with daily or weekly work you’ll become effective in no time at all. Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. I don’t say that to scare you, but to motivate you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

Followers tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase and being one of the first nonprofits to have a presence on a new social network tends to solidify their popularity on the social network over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

(in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually. Circle of the wise - how many feeds you'll read).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Nedra Weinreich of the SpareChange Blog left a pointer to comic this in a comment on my post about RSS as coping tool for Information Overload ! I've been reflecting a lot on my RSS reading habits lately and how I organize (or don't) my RSS feeds in the reader. Just had to blog it! It kind of says it all.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. There are seven ways people can interact with your Page , which all effect your ability to show up in your fans news feeds. What were the top three days for post comments within a specific time period? How many fans did we lose in this specific time period?

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

I originally developed this content with Danielle Brigida ( @starfocus ) for the 2010 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits, and I’ve used it many times since then to help organizations get their programs off the ground.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

All that time wasted! This is safer because your credentials are not stored in IFTTT and you can log in to the app directly and revoke access at any time. 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. RSS is dead.

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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. Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. Amy notes that: In a separate folder I monitor my feeds from people I follow on Twitter, as well as my friends and groups on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

But small nonprofits are going have a harder time with the new Pages, at the very least initially, because: 1) Status Updates showing up in the News Feed to all fans is no longer guaranteed. 90% of the power of a Facebook Fan Page is being able to post Status Updates that can be viewed by fans in their News Feed.

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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)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I thought the launch of my new book would be the perfect time to make a few changes! The big learning for me is to make sure that if you use an RSS service that you point the feed to your domain – that way you can easily move your RSS subscribers without disruption and that way you control your RSS subscribers not the service.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. was difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." Cherrypicking certain posts/feeds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations. I tend to do this one or two times a year. It’s more corporate content control, but that’s what we get from relying on free (but privately held) tools.” If so what are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Social RSS App. This is the absolute only time I advocate for automation between social media sites. The Social RSS App allows you to integrate your Blog posts or news feeds into your organization’s Facebook Page automatically. Anything you post then shows up on your Page and in the News Feed of your fans.

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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. What's next?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

We are a volunteer organization; each of us donates our time without pay to keep Giving Anonymously running. Our featured report this time looks at how charities can combat those stereotypes, with practical ways to communicate a message of effectiveness to the public." I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination!

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So the need for repentance and atonement (which I know are important spiritual practices) for me have always been disconnected from the idea of Lent, that time before Easter. I love that Atonement can also look like At-one-ment - and a time for that is a good thing. Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Playing video games.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I’ve used a variety of email clients of one sort or another over time, and I have recently just decided to ditch them, and use gmail exclusively. I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite. It works for multiple projects.

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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). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If not, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

If time is a problem, post less. Put your feed button above the fold. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts. " It's a three prong strategy: 1. Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. Pack your articles with as much value as possible. By doing so, you???

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

I think I need to move to a new server, and I don’t have the time or energy to focus on the change. My posterous has its own RSS feed so feel free to subscribe if you want to keep up with me. For now, if you want to follow me I suggest you subscribe to the Posterous feed as that will be more actively updated.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

posted by Aaron Stiner , Senior Program Manager, Paths of HOPE, Catholic Charities I am at one of the most intense, rewarding, and sometimes frightening times in my nonprofit career. Our staff down here is all stretched thin and everyone's task lists get overwhelming at times. And I dont think Im alone. No pressure there, ha!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). I discovered that I had problem figuring out how many total feed subscribers and the trends over time because I had four feeds (three built into the typepad blogging platform) and another one in feedburner which offers the stats tracking feature. including your feeds.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2004

It easy - if you know how to subscribe via RSS. A study done by Yahoo in October claims that only 12% of internet users know what RSS is, and only 4% are actively using it. What is RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The RSS information from a site is known as its feed. But its REALLY easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

There was spotty cell phone reception, so I got my news the old fashioned way – reading a newspaper! Ironically, one of the shorts I read was a piece about how people are now spending more time on Facebook than Google. I’m particularly curious about those of us whose work involves spending a lot of time online.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Google agrees: I think I need to move to a new server, and I don't have the time or energy to focus on the change. My posterous has its own RSS feed so feel free to subscribe if you want to keep up with me. For now, if you want to follow me I suggest you subscribe to the Posterous feed as that will be more actively updated.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at. Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. Tags: RSS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

So the need for repentance and atonement (which I know are important spiritual practices) for me have always been disconnected from the idea of Lent, that time before Easter. I love that Atonement can also look like At-one-ment - and a time for that is a good thing. Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Playing video games.

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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. Check out the RSS feed of NTEN’s NTC related blog posts on the homepage, which is also pulling in the Twitter feed. Each session page pulls in the unique feed for that session as well.

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