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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

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One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. To support your curation efforts, you need two different tools – news discovery to help you find content and curation tools to organize and share it.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. communities as well. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources? And, certainly, it's help me as a news feed to keep abreast of the flow. " What do those guidelines look like? How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " 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. The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics.