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180 Articles match "RSS","Technology"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
We're growing the blog roster, with an eye towards landing at ten bloggers posting about twice a month, for a healthy and diverse amount of content focused on helping nonprofits use software and technology to serve their missions. Joining Heather Gardner-Madras , S teven Backman , Eric Leland , Laura Quinn and myself are: Johanna Bates has a strong background in technology management, with special knowledge of the web and online communications. Laura let everyone know last week that Idealware's web site is up for a major upgrade, coming soon. The Idealware blog won't
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Much of the functionality of these new Apps is based on adding buttons that link to your Twitter profile ( the mobile version ), Facebook Page ( the mobile version ), your blog (using RSS) and links such as your website, donate now page, and e-newsletter and text alert subscribe pages. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technolog If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. If not an entire site, then at the very least your organization should
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. The underlying technologies used in those kinds of circumstances are now being integrated into all kinds of other websites because real-time delivery of information changes the user experience radically and offers all kinds of benefits. We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009.
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The Best from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons....( Tags: RSS Widgets Non-profit technology Web 2.0 read more )
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Those of you who visit pages besides the blog here at Idealware have noted that my article Using RSS Tools to Feed your Information Needs is up. If you're an old hand at RSS, then I'm hoping the article will serve as a good tool when trying to impress others of the value of syndication. RSS is a big topic, and writing the article was, in one respect, a challenge: in order to write a solid, intermediate guide to RSS use, I had to narrow the scope a bit. If you're new to Really Simple Syndication , my hope is that my guide will help you become more efficient and effective in your use of the web.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Now here’s a new Facebook application that can take your RSS-to-Facebook to a whole new level. And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post...( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 We’ve talked recently about how to publish your Twitter updates to Facebook Page or personal Profile page. Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too?
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Google Reader has announced a new feature that lets users create an RSS feed to track changes to any web page, even if the site doesn’t publish a feed. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 Google Non-profit Communications websites RSS Feedburne It’s great new feature for your website visitors who use Google Reader, but what about people who use a different feedreader or like to get updates by email? You can help those people get automatic notifications of your website changes, too....(
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I'm continuing with follow-up topics from my RSS article, Using RSS Tools to Feed your Information Needs . Last week, I discussed integrating content with websites , and this week I'm going to dive into one of the more advanced ways to work with RSS content. This gets a little geeky, but it really shows off some of the sophistication of this technology. The article provides numerous examples of RSS sources, but all in the form of web sites, blogs and web services that offer you one or more streams of information. If you want to narrow your view beyond the
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
When it comes to “nptech” or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of! I’m overwhelmed daily, just like everyone else, by the amount of information that’s available from, for and about our sector of technology and social benefit. So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with I’m no exception. What’s in my brain, can be in yours!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I got permission to reprint this email from an ASAE Technology listserve discussion: Twitter does have some uses that might be seen as slightly unconventional. One can subscribe to the RSS feed (see the link at the top of the page). Susan Susan Kistler Executive Director, American Evaluation Association In short, they have a few staffers using the Twitterbar for content in, and they just use the Twitter Check this out . We use it basically as a very easy content management system for bulletin items - but most people never realize that the content is fed through twitter.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: There isn't a nonprofit or nonprofit technology blogs version of the Ad Age Ranking of marketing blogs , although there are ways to do this privately. Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? " Photo by Dwinton
You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social
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Monday, July 7, 2008
I have been thinking for quite some time about how somehow RSS (Real Simple Syndication, a name which is completely unhelpful - and not real simple - to those who need help understanding it) has a serious image problem. I believe RSS is one of the the keys that open the door to the world of web 2.0, and if somehow it was as easy to explain as some of RSS is the bridge between the push and the pull, between your email inbox and the flow of information "out there". Clear as mud?
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Image: SRD RSS, one of my favorite protocols , has been taking a beating in the blogosphere. And I agree that many people will forgo RSS in favor of the links that their friends and mentors tweet and share. Dave Winer , quite arguably the founder of RSS, and our friends at ReadWriteWeb have leapt to RSS's defense with similar points - Winer puts it best , saying: "These protocols...are Steve Gillmor, in his blog TechcrunchIT , declared it dead in May, and many others have followed suit . Did Twitter Kill it?
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