Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. It’s definitely worth a listen. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

This means that a crucial element of the Facebook presence must be the ability to 'pull in' content from elsewhere using RSS. There are some applications that let you automatically cross-post content using RSS or API - but it is a hit or miss as to what works. He goes to describe how this is hard to do with a Facebook group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

She mentioned in Marnie's session that typepad will release a new feature next week -- rss in linklists. I got to talk to Mena Trott and give her my card. I was too in aw to ask any intelligent questions. But she is the cover of my blogher jewelry pictures set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

ve been doing it or is there more I still need to do to get our new RSS feeds out into the limelight? In 2003, I heard that six apart was going to offer moveable type as a service called typepad so I signed up when they opened in 2003. In 2002, I used blog set up on a colleagues moveable type installation, but not regularly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Update: MySpace, SixApart (LiveJournal, Typepad and the newish social networking blog platform Vox), and Bebo have now all joined OpenSocial. Anyway, OpenSocial is something I’ll be watching, playing with, and writing about as time goes on, and considering what it means for those of us in this sector. at 1:15 pm Open Social !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Publishing other folks content via RSS feeds on your blog. I'm particulary interested in typepad widgets, but blogger, wordpress, and others are okay. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. Live chat on your blog. mail on your blog. Commenting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

at 1:35 pm And just noticed that you are using the “online status&# widget for typepad and would like to know what you think about that in terms of building community on a nonprofit blog? I was also wondering if I could do a quick audio interview with you on this topic. 3 Michelle Murrain 10.31.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

For an organization doesn't have skill in HTML and other technical stuff, TypePad and WordPress.com (the hosted version) are likely a good fit. TypePad is in fact the only good choice if you want to really tailor the colors and add your logo but don't have HTML experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Now I have found way too many.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

Anyway, he mentioned that he set up a Typepad blog for Witness' Director, Gillian Caldwell to document her trip to Sierra Leone with Angelina Jolie to deliver recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to the government. You can read case studies of how their videos have made a difference here.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. If you're not using RSS, woe is you because it's hard to keep up otherwise - give a feed reader a try. It's Friday! Happy reading!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

Technically it should happen via RSS, trackback, and blogrolling - but it's not the technology that is important. I started this blogging thing on an impulsive whim in 2002 after Jon Stahl gave me a moveable type blog on his server because I couldn't set it up on my own (it was pre-typepad). Now, my experience is much richer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). If you have a small budget, you might consider a blogging platform like typepad for the ease of use. into an RSS Reader????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. Maybe one of my readers will point me to some third-party typepad plugin that does this? Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. A time consuming pain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

RSS Widgets: I installed grazr which easily puts my bloglines feeds that I'm reading on my sidebar in a nifty little directory. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the blogging platform, so adding a widget is even easier than cut and paste! Downside, not free. It helps automate your blogroll.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Act 2: Why. Finder Lens.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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