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RSS is really your friend

NCE Social Media

RSS - Really Simple Syndication, can be a great time saver. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs.

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NTEN Webinar: Social Media Building Blocks

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. In this webinar we’ll discuss the fundamentals of sharing information with social media tools. We’ll cover social bookmarking, tagging, RSS and more, plus the tools you can start using for free to do it all.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. Tools social media Twitter NetSquared'

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool. Some are huge.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 5 friarminor 09.30.08