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Filtering Your Feeds: Marshall's Yahoo Pipes Screencast

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Go no further than this excellent screencast from Marshall Kirkpatrick. Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. And you've integrated reading feeds from blogs and web sites into your daily routine.

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What I learned about Social Search on Yi-Tan and How It Applies to NpTech Tag Discussion.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. Some other urls here and here.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.).

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Forget Coffee Spoons: I Can Now Measure Out My Life With Facebook Status Updates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once you add an app to your timeline, you don’t have to give it permission to add stuff to your feed: “Adding an app to your timeline is like wiring a real-time connection between your app and Facebook…There is no step two,” says Facebook CTO Brett Taylor.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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Results from Widget Experiments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. The whole podcast is about 2-3 minutes and I will use that as a soundtrack for Act 2 in the screencast. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals or republish your feeds. Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages.

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