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Feed My Inbox — RSS feeds by email

Robert Weiner

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks: I like to get information by email. I prefer listserves over online forums and email to IM. And I don't like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed. I want information to come to me -- I don't want to seek it out.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. 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. changing habits is another story).

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5 Proven Tips for Building Your Nonprofits Email List

NetWits

If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Require Minimal Information.

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Information Coping Skills for Memory Loss? Writing it down.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. Many times, I'm asked by newcomers to RSS readers what is the best way to get started is finding blogs to read. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill.

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When not to use email.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, in a blog post that I wrote called " RSS As Information Coping Tool " - experimented with switching some my listserv subscriptions to RSS reader. Makes sense to really think about whether an information source/listserv is giving you value or not. Bloglines has this feature).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. What's the tone, formal or informal? This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed.

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