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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. More Resources. Check out our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page!

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Lists As Part of Your Content Strategy: A Short List of Tips and Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.” Robin has reviewed other list-making tools for curation.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually. I'd also cover stretching and RSI and how to avoid it.(in

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DIY Social Media Management

Amy Sample Ward

There are so many tools out there and so many different options pulling us in so many directions that I’ve found many organizations, especially very small organizers, can feel like they are getting tied up in knots. Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Here’s an example: DIY Management Tools.

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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. You can then click on the linked “Feed&# word that has the RSS icon next to it (the icon looks like a signal).

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Say What? Build a Social Media Listening Dashboard for Your Nonprofit

NetWits

If you’re lucky enough to have a decent budget, you can look into social media monitoring tools like Radian6. These tools provide great in-depth resources, but most of us will need to find an alternative due to financial constraints. Feel free to download it and start listening today!