Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content curation is the organizing, filtering and making sense of information on the web and sharing the very best content with your network. One reason content curation is becoming more and more appreciated because of the huge amount of information available on the web. We can’t blame it all on the amount of information.

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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. Understand how information overload might be effecting you and take a break to assess and rethink. Don't limit high quality information , filter out the crap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. But, with so much information available and coming at us from many sources, we often don’t know if it’s the right information or if it’s current. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

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. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. Use your podcast for what it can deliver more effectively than other methods. I personally recommend LibSyn.com for hosting your podcast files and RSS feed generation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Twitter is a great tool for getting your message out in a method that spreads quickly. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message. This viral method of getting information out, is just that - viral.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Though not all of this content is perfect, conglomerate sites based on RSS feeds are pulling posts and ranking them so you can even abstain from reading prose that has been poorly formulated. In order to make the most of social learning in the social media environment, it is completely vital that we correspond with one another.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos. Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project. Not the tales itself, but the method used. So that’s where OpenAction comes into play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Yet, if you can't archive and retrieve information that you want to reflect on and share with a community, it's forgotten. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments. " Corey P of the 501c3Cast uses a rss feed for "nonprofit" search with Terraminds. and tag it. Many times I forget.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

About 5-8 years ago, I used to do a workshop called "Information Coping Skills" for people who felt overwhelmed by the information age. I used the " getting to zero " and "getting things done" frameworks to teach people methods for being efficient with email. The online resources are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. It involves method, just like anything else. She "tweets" various tips for getting kids outside, links to new Green Hour blog posts and information on events and more. Reaching your goals doesn't involve magic. She provides a resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

" The idea was to create a list of tools that could be used in the areas of contact management, technology assessment, information aggregators, productivity, research, etc. But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss. Is the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

More information here. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. What on earth is a Wiki? How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site?

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Care2

MARCH 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!" Kelly O’Neal, online marketing consultant, provides the following recommendations to nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

To make matters worse, Charity Navigator seemed standoffish and unwilling to work with the field or adjust its approach despite some pretty obvious shortcomings in its methods. The Holy Grail for an informational watchdog like Charity Navigator is to actually (gasp!) So, what kinds of information, if not outcomes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. The information is one place. t be accessed from different locations or computers. (3) Act 2: Definitions.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

Human-based social engineering is just what it sounds like – people at a computer entering stolen credit card information to process a transaction. If you want to know what’s on the horizon for increased security methods, then look to Europe. There are certainly pros and cons to using these but they work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

on using the web to highlight important information in situations where. information overload may be a problem. same time, information pollution is an increasing problem for the. trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Open standards are now becoming de-riguer for application developers, and even proprietary vendors are adopting longstanding ideas and methods from free and open source software. Who wouldn’t want to fill a few Freedom of Information act requests to look at every piece of paper involved?

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