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Go Inside the Mind of the Human Aggregator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How does he find and pick feeds? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships? Interview with Scoble where he answers these questions: Which RSS reader does he use and why? 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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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

The actions in our database are aggregated from across the social web and include everything from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.&#. As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

All of these conduits were built with individual users in mind, so they lack built-in tools for organizational use, but here are a few external tools that can help. Among the benefits are the ability to schedule posts in the future and customizable feeds that let you track what people are saying about your organization.

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Nonprofit Video + Volunteer Opportunities = New YouTube Program!

Connection Cafe

” And with the exception of nonprofits lucky enough to have an in-house videographer, of which are few and far between, the answer to this question is more often than now “ Yes ” And with that common response in mind, YouTube officially rolled out its new YouTube Video Volunteers program today.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc.

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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.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

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. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds.