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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'd also cover stretching and RSI and how to avoid it.(in

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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. Do they have round up a lot outside resources? Are they tip posts, resource roundups, or other formats? Insight Harvesting: What are the topics?

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

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I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Clearly, this is not my area of expertise.

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The Answer to Sean's Question: Tools for Effective Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Additional Resources.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Additional Resources.

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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. I am always discovering new resources, there is so much out there that it is difficult for one person to keep on top of everything.

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Are you a digital curator, packrat, editor, or snacker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. Further, they don't even need to create their own content, just as a museum curator rarely hangs his/her own work next to a Da Vinci. They do, however, need to be subject matter experts. The other terms.

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