Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Nedra Weinreich of the SpareChange Blog left a pointer to comic this in a comment on my post about RSS as coping tool for Information Overload ! I've been reflecting a lot on my RSS reading habits lately and how I organize (or don't) my RSS feeds in the reader. Just had to blog it! It kind of says it all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

I met them two years ago when I did a webinar called " Ten Steps To Extension 2.0 " Kevin and I started to share RSS reader tips and habits and he pointed to Feedly an RSS reader that gives you a magazine layout and makes it easy to share links from your reader. (See What's your routine for sharing information on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) She describes the value in terms of avoiding information overload for busy professionals. This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

I was lucky enough to attend a breakout session called "The Fritz and Sauce Method For Dealing With Information Overload" conducted by Stuart Jones from the Old Milang School House Project. Stuart gave a great presentation on how to avoid that awful overwhelmed feeling we feel from dealing with digital information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

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. There's not even a description of what the blogs do. Absolutely true!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. So here's his " Bringing relevant information to your electronic desktop." " I think he succeeded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Allowing visitors to sign in using their Facebook and Twitter accounts can make it easier for them to share your nonprofit’s information with their networks and followers. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions. " on the lower left side.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. According to TechCrunch , Bloglines experienced a major outage, leaving many who use bloglines taking a serious look at alternative RSS readers and exporting and backing up our OPML files.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Once over the Golden Gate Bridge and connectedness restored I noticed this post from Melissa Ford over at BlogHer in my Facebook feed – “ Is RSS Dead? &# about Bloglines closing as of October 1st. She wonders if she is out of synch with others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). What's the tone, formal or informal? Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? There are other ways to measure your RSS reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. Tags: RSS. Here's the thread.

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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

JULY 13, 2009

This information is invaluable to your nonprofit – Giving you the ability become more effective with your online efforts. I know you may not have a blog, but the info still applies and there is a lot of useful information here. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email.

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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. I’ll be writing about that topic in the weeks and months to come. Pick something to focus on and go deep.

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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

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. Go no further than this excellent screencast from Marshall Kirkpatrick. That's where Yahoo Pipes can really help you.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Here’s a few: #1 Listen: Who are your sources that consistently provide valuable information for learning without a lot of noise? I look for people who are good information curators. Many of those that I follow are on different platforms, so I tend to set up listening posts based on where my sources are. #2

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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. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2008

Alltop is a one-page listing of RSS feeds of the "top" blogs in an industry or sector - created by Guy Kawaski. More information about alltop. Here's the official badge. The one above is an alternative badge from a collection created by Jenny Lawson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

If you're new to the topic, it is a great way to get up to speed and will would definitely help you inform your strategy. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). The other half of the guide is an online component to help you keep up to date. It's called the RWW Community Management Aggregator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

The value of listening is not in the act of listening in and of itself, but when an organization or individual uses the information to improve programs or marketing. With such a clear policy for response, it is obvious that the blog generates valuable information to shape and improve a marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. Tracking Blog Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Doesn’t listening require plowing through mountains and mountains of unstructured information? They also need to get past the concern about information overload and too much unstructured information. Won’t it make you dizzy and uncomfortable? Don’t you have to be Joey Chestnut to be successful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. You can browse, organize, or search one RSS Feed or many. For example, for my blog I can create an index with key words organized by concept just for my blog or for all blogs.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. Tracking Blog Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

List Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information. How will you share the information? Are you currently using RSS Reader? Are you currently using RSS Reader? Do you know how to scan information quickly and pick out patterns. Internal Process. Who in the organization will do the listening? If so, what reader?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Kevin wrote a reaction to this post on ZDnet " Twitter is Dangerous " where Michael Krigsman makes this point: Twitter is rapidly becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection. The program???s s great strength ??? many-to-many messaging ??? becomes its great weakness in this context. 2006 should be allowed to stay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2008

What are you going to do with the information once you hear it? List Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information. How will you share the information? Are you currently using RSS Reader? re listening for what people aren???t t saying, but want to." " and goes to give us some points about what to listen for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. Philosophical points aside, technically and operationally RSS presents a series of institutional problems, challenges, and questions: How could or should I incorporate it into the enterprise? t quite know what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. This is a blog that provides information about the organization's programs and services.  What happens if something controversial comes up, how does your blog react? Red Cross Chat Blog. Greenpeace Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

You can updates through RSS. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki.

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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. " Corey P of the 501c3Cast uses a rss feed for "nonprofit" search with Terraminds. With TweetScan you can choose to: Subscribe to the RSS feed for the tracking term using your feed reader.

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