Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some of the best ways to start listening online: Google Alerts. This free service from Google let’s you identify key words, phrases, or URLs that you want to track. Finding Feeds. Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second. at 12:10 pm Woah.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes. More RSS Tools: Sharing Feeds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. The SDK will be available later this month.

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JULY 27, 2012

Require Minimal Information. RSS as a Replacement. Enable RSS so visitors can keep up with your blog activity with Google Reader (my preference). Enable RSS so visitors can keep up with your blog activity with Google Reader (my preference). Subscribe to posts and/or comments on the Tenement Museum blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is also free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The session combines information coping with blog communty outreach. Blogging Basics: Managing Information Overload: How to find your blogging community Join Beth Kanter, who has been writing about what she prefers to call "online information coping skills" since the 1990s, when we mostly had to worry about email.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Google Analytics – [link]. Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! Google Alerts – [link]. Facebook Insights.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

is our community directly informing the services we provide? Let’s focus on that first question for a moment: is our community directly informing the services we provide? How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

This year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the barrage of incoming electronic information, and the ways I engage and respond to it is causing me to lose my way. Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Blogging or reading Blogs.

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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)? What’s the difference between Netvibes and Google Reader?

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics. Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites. Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

Thanks to RSS, any new post that you publish to your blog automatically gets published to your mobile website. Using elements, nonprofits can create a homepage and subpages and then using the RSS from your blog, you can easily and automatically generate articles and news stories. For more info, see Pricing Information.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Even simple tools like Google Docs means your organization can report real time data, online, anytime. More databases now have protocols and mechanisms that allow you to pull your data out and publish it online, so your site can always have your most current information, no updating required. You can do it, too!

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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. Browsing the local cheese shop in town, there was an invitation to join their Fan Club on Facebook!

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OCTOBER 11, 2006

And, Google documents allows you export and import pretty easily without too much reformating hell. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

This year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the barrage of incoming electronic information, and the ways I engage and respond to it is causing me to lose my way. Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Blogging or reading Blogs.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 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!" Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Are they tips?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! As Jack said, it is helpful and important for someone to be informed, but we don’t have a real need for an expert (yet).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

.&# I recently had the opportunity to connect with Marshall to discuss the report and the insights RWW discovered through the process of aggregating and distilling so much information from experts and Web users. Real-time information delivery has changed the way that organization works in radical ways. It’s amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. Not that Google has any (*cough* *mumble* *adwords*) motive to under-report traffic. Tags: RSS.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

This information can help you map out the content to match with their behaviors. You can easily do this by creating an Excel document or Google doc to organize your content and identify what will go to which segment of your audience, and at what time. It’s possible the simple reason is that they receive too many emails in their inbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use Google Analytics (GA) to see things like how many unique visitors you’re getting, what content is being viewed the most, what keywords or phrases people are using to find you and where people are coming from when finding you. Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

In Google Analytics I'm closing looking at referrals. I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. What's cool is that you grab an RSS of the search). A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. Get a memory upgrade.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

In part one of this post, I discussed the first steps the National Women’s Law Center took when we initially received our Google Grant, and some of the challenges we faced getting started. Other Benefits We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the additional, less quantifiable uses we’re finding for our Google Grant.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some of the best ways to start listening online: Google Alerts. This free service from Google let’s you identify key words, phrases, or URLs that you want to track. get started, just visit [link] and create an account.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" However, our Google ads offer us a way around that. It’s $330 a day, every day, period.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. use your RSS reader. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Are you using RSS to listen, but want to know how to fine tune your listening skills? Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. If using google alerts and blogreaders are great entry steps, how do you take your listening to the next level?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I’ve discovered some wonderful discussion threads about one of my favorite topics: Information Overload and Strategies for Coping. As George Siemens points out the issue of information overload is not new. Examples include: Techmeme, Google News, and Huffington Post. Human Approaches: Skills and Habits Are Key.

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JUNE 4, 2007

Google Confirms FeedBurner Buy: "Google Confirms FeedBurner Buy› › › ClickZ NewsBy Matthew G.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Taking a look at the ways technology companies have informed their users about product changes is instructive for nonprofits looking to announce big changes in a thoughtful way. Google’s decision to close Reader’s sharing features to cajole people into using Google+ got me thinking about this.

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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. Google Reader. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Google Alerts.

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