Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

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). Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. engage internally.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Test Forms - Test donation and email subcription forms to be sure that funds are processed properly and contact info transfers to your database. Burn your feeds – You’ll want to make setup your RSS feeds properly in Feedburner so that you can track subscriber numbers and click-throughs from RSS readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

I know you may not have a blog, but the info still applies and there is a lot of useful information here. More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

If you want good info, there is a great book by a fellow Linuxchix , called “ Beginning GIMP &# by Akkana Peck. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does. I’m not a designer or photographic expert, but it’s a pretty amazing program.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. Some are huge.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

When you make a post, it gets added to your followers' Twitter feeds and if they re-tweet your content, everyone following their Twitter feed sees what you posted, and their followers can re-tweet said info, and so on, and so on. This viral method of getting information out, is just that - viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. Publishing other folks content via RSS feeds on your blog. Publishing tag clouds, links from socialbookmarking, etc on your blog. Live chat on your blog. mail on your blog. Share what you're feeds your reading.

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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. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. for Info (Win) / double-click (Mac) for the Info pop-up and follow the link to. I have one blog post here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. I don’t necessarily think Twitter will abuse the info, but you never know what’s happening behind the scenes. I’m not joining any social networks like this anymore.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. Google Analytics is also free.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2011

Contact info & description. Also on the overview tab you can add your nonprofit’s Twitter account and your blog’s RSS feed. And now, after that long intro, here’s the four things I’m suggesting you do today to your organization’s LinkedIn page (make sure you claim it first). Social Media.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 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!" Click here to watch the replay.

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Care2

JUNE 26, 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!" Contact them for more info. Sound interesting?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike. I’ve found Ingres to be the kind of database that “just works&# on Linux and Windows (as well as lots of non-nonprofit platforms like HP-UX and AIX)… not just for developers, but for companies that are left holding the bag long after they’re gone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

at 9:58 am Thanks, much, for that info, Mike. I’ve found Ingres to be the kind of database that “just works&# on Linux and Windows (as well as lots of non-nonprofit platforms like HP-UX and AIX)… not just for developers, but for companies that are left holding the bag long after they’re gone.

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Care2

MARCH 30, 2007

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!" Big thanks to Erin and Jill for sending us the info! To create a new comment, use the form below.

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MAY 31, 2007

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!" Thanks for the info! May 31, 2007 | Amien Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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JANUARY 15, 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!" Gather demographic info if you don’t already have it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" Best Engaging Communities " a large collection of best-practices info and case studies about managing online communities found by Ian Wilker. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. Michele Martin has some reactions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward. I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Share others' info relevant to your work. You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. All the info covered in the report applies to commercial, for-profit enterprises, but there's a lot to be applied to the non-profit world as well. Credit: Beth Kanter and Allison Fine.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 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!" Thanks tons for sharing this info. Number 4 in particular is an SEO tip that many people overlook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Feel free to drop us a line at info [at] yugma [dot] com. Drop by [link] for more info. If any of your readers are interested to learn more, or to sign up to the program (competely free of charge!), they can read about it at [link]. If you hav any questions or suggestions, we’ld love to hear from you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I know that Beth has some great recommendations on paid listening services that she mentioned in the forum, but Twitter search RSS feeds to a Google Reader can provide some great insights. I usually do simple Twitter searches and @replies, comment on blogs, but are there better ways or a general hierarchy of effective strategies?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And I’m not suggesting that it’s necessarily possible, especially as site stats become more public info, that organizations can, or should control stats. How many people are reading our materials in their RSS readers? I’m not suggesting that nonprofits should *ignore* site statistics. 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

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!" So check out MobileActive.org for more info and start warming up those thumbs.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Vernon Avenue | Alexandria, VA 22301 tel: 703.548.1855 | fax: 703.995.4937 Contact Us © 2010 Forum One Communications Corporation, All rights reserved Privacy Policy Forum One Blogs Influence Blog Technology Blog User Experience & Design Blog Online Community Report Blog Company Blog Stay Connected Delicious Slideshare Facebook YouTube Twitter (..)

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" link] March 10, 2009 | Steff The points youve made make a lot of sense when you already have a website up.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Vernon Avenue | Alexandria, VA 22301 tel: 703.548.1855 | fax: 703.995.4937 Contact Us © 2010 Forum One Communications Corporation, All rights reserved Privacy Policy Forum One Blogs Influence Blog Technology Blog User Experience & Design Blog Online Community Report Blog Company Blog Stay Connected Delicious Slideshare Facebook YouTube Twitter (..)

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

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!" She can be reached at 202-465-3777 x9107 or karen@earth.care2.com.

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MAY 29, 2007

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!" She can be reached at 202-465-3777 x9107 or karen@earth.care2.com.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

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!" Thats why we typically provide a registration module and track this info for our clients.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

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!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Has rss capability. asked our chapters if it was valuable to them in telling their story and getting info out, made adjustments based on their feedback. . Collected hundreds of “thanks” from people affected via Twitter and regular channels saying the info we provided on newsroom helped them navigate their situation better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

P.S. Granted this post is a bit old, and cake has matured quite a bit even over such a short period of time, but I figured it’d be nice to share more info for any of your readers. Not to mention the excellent console tools. Yes, I am biased towards cake) :) 8 Kevin 02.19.09 at 8:33 pm Why not use regular mysql_query() for complex joins?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this. If you delete something, tell your fans. Be transparent.

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