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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. It's called the RWW Community Management Aggregator. Exportable OPML feeds for all blogs and hot posts. This is a premium service and it well worth the investment.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

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). " Official Google Blog: Bringing tech knowledge to nonprofits through the HandsOn Tech Corps – "Community service has always been important to us.

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FriendFeed: Any Nonprofit Staffers Using It? How? Why?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Who is the poweruser of Friend Feed?

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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Even better than the numbers was the knowledge nuggets shared. And, ah, I found the secret sauce: Simply Asking Questions That Allow People To Share Their Knowledge and Ideas sparks engagement!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Read this ). room, etc).

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You have to be thoughtful, strategic and knowledgeable. 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! Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Four tips to help you get started.