Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. and Facebook's primitive version lifestreaming , which involves integrating a handful of services into users' Mini-Feeds and News Feeds. leave a comment). Read this ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Update: See Ben's Comment over here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. I admit that I don't understand some of the more technical stuff. So, Allan, did I get it right?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. Google news feed about the event. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Nonprofitorgs on Twitter is an aggregator of nonprofits on Twitter and is following over 2,000 nonprofits. These are twitterfeeds of aggregating calls to action by particular issues area. NpTechBlogs is an aggregated feed of blogs written by nonprofit techies. Where To Connect With Other Nonprofits.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

Team profiles with a “follow&# feature, embeddable video, location information, comments, and feedback. Social media aggregation and promotion hooks including RSS feeds, Facebook “Like&# , inbound and outbound Twitter posts, and ShareThis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Well, total aggregate unrelated business income has grown in the sector over the last few decades, but so has the number of nonprofit organizations. Near the end of the past semester, my class discussed one of the chestnuts of the nonprofit sector. In On Being Nonprofit , Frumkins Figure 5.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Reading a feed of short messages sent from the #sandiegofires was very interesting, for example. Update: Here's the feed

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Then they can comment, share and/or like your wall posts which then shares it with all their friends – now that’s viral. Comment on their wall posts. One Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. rethink, reinvent. Johannes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Want a fuller description of FriendFeed? Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

In Urban Institute ’s work with Feeding America —a network of over 200 food banks across the country—they were careful to avoid collecting feedback in November and December. Quantitative feedback data gathered through surveys can be difficult to interpret without more qualitative open-ended comments or other means of interpreting the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. is an attitude , not a download.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net?? We don't know exactly what the Net??

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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. and messy information I'm aggregating.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

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!" As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet.

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 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!" We will, however, report the interesting, aggregated results on frogloop in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Leave your answers in the comments below. TINT is an online service that lets you aggregate content from your organization's various social media feeds for display on your website or on-screen at events. It's been a really busy year, with nine new vendors in the TechSoup catalog. Which one is the lie?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. it.org.uk ???real???

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2007

Don't want to deal with RSS readers or feed aggregators? The email links to the comment pages and allows you to email individual posts to others, too. mailbox mudra ? Originally uploaded by Jennifer Esperanza Do you like the content here but hate having to come to the site to get it? Well, now, thanks to Feedblitz, Museum 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 GEO always seems to be on the forefront.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 GEO always seems to be on the forefront.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

We gots questions about blogging platforms, feeds, distribution, video hosts, compression, editing software and more. If you have some good answers, please drop a comment in the blog post. Is there an nptechvideo tag, or other tags, or aggregations of video blogs for the nonprofit sector? How does video content get organized.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

Digression: Some people have commented that my hierarchy of social participation suffers this fault by implying that museums should be trying to level up to higher social engagement. Which exhibits allow them to aggregate selections from a group? But we're weak in the middle levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A few comments over at Kikono too. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. I did post a comment right away after discovering your blog.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

If you want people to be able to tag artifacts with keywords, comments, or ratings, you need a unique identifier for each artifact, a way for visitor submissions to populate a database, and automated programs for aggregation and display of visitor data. It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection.

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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!" Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. I’m aggregating the Tweets for #50smt here. Do an analysis to improve or create content.

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