Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. Some other urls here and here.

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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)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. GuideStar: GuideStar gathers and publicizes information about nonprofit organizations. GuideStar: GuideStar gathers and publicizes information about nonprofit organizations.

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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. Deborah Finn has written a SEO primer called " Search Engine Optimization for Nervous Nonprofit Novices " and she is seeking feedback from SEO mavens. NpTech Conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. What do those # mean?

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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 example searches using NetSquared as the organization. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. Twitter Search. Simply visit [link] to get started.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A quick search of the term “nonprofit&# in the iTunes App store returns less than 50 Apps, and most of those are miscategorized Apps. Each button is then edited individually by adding either a link, a RSS Feed, or by checking a box indicating you will add further information later in the Sweb App Management System.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. The effects could be disastrous if someone got their hands on that information. 4 Ade 12.18.07 5 Jay 12.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. 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? I'm paraphrasing.

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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. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 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!" Just the fact that the IMC Program has started its own blog tells us that these guys are the real deal.

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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. Examples: My6Sense and Genieo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Blogs can help you work faster. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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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. Ego searches. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 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. Web searches dont turn up much for this specific organization. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. This is great news.

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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. Ego searches. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

In part one of this series , we explained the pros and cons of both tools to help nonprofits make an informed choice. The disadvantage to this is in terms of search engine rankings. You can use WordPress XML files, DotClear files, or RSS/Atom feeds (which would allow import from just about any CMS platform, such as Drupal or Joomla.)

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed. Add your comments below.

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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

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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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

There is a day or two lag for it shows up in search. Start with information tab: be complete, accurate, and honest. Wall Tab - accuracy updates of information. Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful. Doesn't control the search. Standard best practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! 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. Openness - ????A

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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

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Blogs can help you work faster. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

Benefit 50

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

While I was reflecting on the question, searching my distant memory of how I began working for nonprofits almost 30 years ago, The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers popped up in my RSS feed. The next part of the guide is filled with practical information about how to conduct a "career search" in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. Trivia and information? Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. Do you want to start conversations?

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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. After the mp3 file is complete, you need to upload it to a hosting service and add it to your podcast RSS feed. The What and Why? Marketing and Distribution.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2009

The International Aid Transparency Initiative is a new initiative which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. IDML or International Development Markup Language is an emerging XML standard for aid information. 2 - More coherent information about aid projects.

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