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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
I use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. Lately, my RSS reading habits have changed. My RSS reading is mostly information gathering or browsing. Photo by Lynetter. I haven't given up on it completely, but my process has changed. Finding ???Looking Information gathering ???Less
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RSS Beginners Guide and Video
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 16, 2007
Michael Pick recently posted this entertaining how-to video about RSS for some client work he was doing for a social RSS application called " Feed Each Other." His RSS Guide for Beginners is an absolute gem! A must-read for anyone trying to explain what RSS is and why one should use it.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2007
Lee LeFever and Sachi created this three minute video to explain RSS in plain English and why if you're not tracking web information using RSS you need to do so! RSS is Step 5. His post is here. This afternoon I'm teaching a webinar called Ten Steps to Extension 2.0 for Extension professionals new to Web2.0 ideas and tools.
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Is it over for RSS readers?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 2, 2008
I still use RSS readers, of course, but I'm not necessarily following the same set of blogs in linear way. I don't know if it is over for me, but I haven't been as disciplined lately reading my feeds. I am finding myself keeping up through items shared in google reader or via friendfeed or twitter -- and while I'm writing via Zemanta.
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Guest Post by Amy Sample Ward: Want a peek at my RSS: Here it is!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2009
So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS Why? Opening up my RSS reader (well, except for my mom’s blog and that kind of thing!) My public RSS reader is built on Netvibes , which is a free, web-based RSS reader. Tags: guest blogging RSS. Check it out!
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2006
the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. Get this widget! You knew I just had to do this. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. That's my Second Life avatar). Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.
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RSS As Information Coping Tool
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 20, 2007
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'm discovering that I'm finding RSS so efficient that I find email annoying. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds.
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Widget for Publishing RSS Headlines
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 1, 2006
This isn't the only widget that uses RSS stream headlines or content from feeds. These include: RSS Scroll Box - allows you to add up 3 RSS feeds that scroll up the page. RSS Feed Widget by MuseStorm - pulls any RSS feed into your blog or web page A quick search on widgetbox and found a few more.
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Digital Natives and Twitter (and RSS)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
But, none used RSS readers or knew what they were. Not sure if this matches demographic studies of RSS users or not because this group was under 18) They were aware of tagging, but in the sense of how it is used on Facebook - to tag your friends in photographs or notes, etc. No surprise there.
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RSS Overload and Google Reader Stats
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 would make a great presentation slide!
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RSS Side Links & Blogger
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 12, 2005
How can you stream and RSS as headline links down your sidebar in blogger? If you want to have a stream a RSS feed as headlines on your side bar in blogger, after you create the javascript, where do you put in the template? This is one of those stupd questions one that reveals your own stupidity. I posted it here.
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Information Coping Skills With RSS from Amy Gahran
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 14, 2007
Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. In short, ditch the guilt, embrace the serendipity! Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. I don't feel pressured to read everything, I'm a big scanner.
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NpTechTag Summary: TechTalk TV, RSS in Plain English, and Inspiring Stories
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 27, 2007
RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 6, 2006
There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." So, here's another poll designed to learn about RSS subscription behavior.
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Moving Listserv Email from Inbox To RSS: A Few Steps Closer
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2007
This, of course, assumes that haven't reaced the point of RSS reader overload and I can successfully shift my email reading habit. A great big thank you to Ryan over at PICnet for this hack -- I can now move my NTEN Affinity Groups emails over the reader.
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50 Show Me Experiments and Realistic Outcomes for Tagging/RSS
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.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace." She describes the value in terms of avoiding information overload for busy professionals.
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RSS Feeds from the Nptech World
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 12, 2005
At one point, I had a linklist called "RSS Feeds I'm Eating" but I've decided to dump them into del.icio.us I keep remembering how overwhelmed I felt when I first started my quest to find blogs to read that would speak to my interests in nonprofit technology. using nptech and bloglines tags.
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RSS Readers and the Search for Content
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 30, 2005
I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 29, 2012
I’ve been using Feedburner for my blog RSS Feeds since 2005! It is time to self-host your RSS feed many people wondered? Rumors that Google will close Feedburner are circulating again, but this time there is an option for an RSS hosting service, although not free. And, we know right now they won’t be closing.
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RSS Habits and Tools of Edtechs and NPTechs without Indigestion.
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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Loyality: RSS Subscribers and How To Keep It Growing
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 24, 2007
Skelliewag has value packed post called " How To Get 1,050 Subscribers in 3 Months. " It's a three prong strategy: 1. Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. Pack your articles with as much value as possible. If time is a problem, post less.
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User Generated Video Subtitles: RSS In Plain Thai
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 16, 2007
Via CogDog Blog. Unfortunately, they didn't have Khmer sub-titles, the closest thing was in Thai. CogDog Blog has an excellent analysis of this. I'm wondering how accurate the translation is.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
The site sports a cleaner design, a new author photo , a responsive web design plugin so the site is readable on mobiles and tablets, and I’ve migrated off Feedburner for my RSS subscription management to FeedBlitz. Housekeeping Details. He calmly held my hand through the process! Responsive Web Design.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 19, 2007
Chris Blow writes a blog called Unthinkingly. If you been following this thread, I was prompted to explore blog metrics in this post after reading what Avinash Kaushik had to day on the topic : The blog metrics he identified were: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???
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Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience. 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
JANUARY 16, 2009
I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). 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. How does that compare to my blog?
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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 18, 2013
If you’re looking for a new RSS, are you also considering a moment of self-reflection about what topics you are consuming and an opportunity to seek out some new ideas or different topics? If so what are they?
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Finding Balance: Our Relationship with Technology and Social Networks
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 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
OCTOBER 28, 2005
Alexandra Samuels has posted a fabulous article with that title.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 12, 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. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Explore tools that help you slow down that river of RSS information.
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100 Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 13, 2009
More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email. Another Tip : Not sure how to get RSS from the Blackbaud Sphere CMS. Not sure what RSS is?
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New Listening Tool: Who Is Talking About You?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 1, 2009
It's free, but if you want to grab the results in a RSS, it looks like that will be the pro service. Powerful listening is done through Radian 6, but I also have a Ruby Goldberg like set up of RSS feeds from about 25 different sources that search on my name, my blog url, and the various mispellings. I listen in many different ways.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
I like the simplicity and it is especially useful for sharing resources as part of a training. One important consideration is that the tool has an export feature so you don’t loose your work. (If they don’t have an export button, many tools do use RSS and you can export your work into Excel.).
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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?
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
NOVEMBER 1, 2008
For novices just starting to explore social media, I recommend google alerts as the first listening step because they didn't have learn another application (RSS Readers) to get started. I use google alerts, but always wished they had an RSS option. I get way too email that I can barely keep up.
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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips
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. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Explore tools that help you slow down that river of RSS information.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 7, 2008
Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. More here. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation.
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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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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 See this review from Mashable ).
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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 24, 2009
RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.
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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. With that said, listserv to RSS can help when you have many valuable sources. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like! Bloglines has this feature).
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Go Inside the Mind of the Human Aggregator
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 18, 2007
Interview with Scoble where he answers these questions: Which RSS reader does he use and why? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships? How does he configure it to save time? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts?
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