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Go Inside the Mind of the Human Aggregator

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How does he find and pick feeds? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships? How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? How does he configure it to save time? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How can you catch his eye with your posts?

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

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There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide. Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. Williambrook mentions a plugin to follow your comments.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

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Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Back in the early days of Web 2.0, To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Searching between the cracks There are so many different places where nptech resources are being aggregated and thanks to Yahoo pipes many variations on the meta feeds that occassionally you discover little pockets of resources that either get lost in the flow or don't make it into the main fire hoses for one reason or another.