Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. You get summaries and then it takes you to the source.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

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. Though you can certainly just subscribe to a search feed through a service like Terraminds. Update: Here's the feed

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is listens by searching for discussions about blood donations in their local area says Courtney Martin. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Although there is low volume, the listening has provided a lot of value.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2005

navigation might come in the form of a feed reader, a link on a blog, a search engine, or some other content aggregator. Fortunately, content aggregators have a built-in answer for this??? This is very apparent in Daypop, Del.icio.us, and Blogdex feeds. t necessarily know where to go to find it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Which also means you can boost your search engine rankings (SEO). 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. Google) of Facebook. One Campaign.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

ll search my own blog to get that reference." " So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Xobni is a third-party Microsoft Outlook plug-in that, in addition to helping you search and sort your email, aggregates the social media activity of your contacts into a quick-click interface. Using Xobni with Outlook, you can easily look at what your employees and co-workers are posting and tweeting. What do you think?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Then, your "data library" can be sorted, searched, and filtered just like your publication library. Feed your raw data to world. Don't let your data fall victim! Make it portable.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

This donation also includes GoDaddy's Get Found service, which helps your organization get better visibility on Internet search results. 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. Two Truths and a Lie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Google Blog Search. 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. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. "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? How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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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!" 60) Search « Who Will Be the Next $100,000 Purpose Prize Winner? Main | Care2.com

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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

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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

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

Then go to twitter and add other useful resources to the feed. This research will collect and aggregate metrics from standard digital reporting tools, then report on the trends uncovered. It will help all of us understand what our peer's most recent communications on their plans is. These dates will be changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. 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. So here it goes.10

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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!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

The app also has a voice-activated search. Reeder – is an RSS reader or news aggregator that compiles information from several online sources into a single place. Circa – is the news aggregation app I use. The app lets me request a ride and also pay for it with my phone. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. It searches searches only a smaller portion of the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). There's some discussion of the difficulty of tracking readership via RSS readers: Online but external to the blog, RSS feeds and aggregators can both reveal and disguise a blog???s

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

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.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" I seriously think it’s "the" buzz word of 2009. The interface is clean and it’s easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. Aggregator."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Updates made by phones to twitter, are searched more easily than before -. Searched using Twitter Search with no URL to look for -. Tell me what thy wildlife name is on the twitter feed-but be sure! My twitter feed: [link]. NWF's Twitter feed: [link]. Hashtags: [link] "search #nwf" 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

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. I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. Authority???

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

Click "Add Stuff" to add items to your personal homepage, like local weather, top news stories, to do lists, email feeds, and specialized content. Feeds from blogs are a bit tricky; if it's not a major blog, you will have to click "Add by URL" and add the feed address, which usually ends in.xml. For example, to add Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Set up Yammer to host an internal, private free Twitter feed for your institution. create new pages for new areas of interest), refine mission statements, and aggregate research resources in a central area. Yammer works like Twitter--people send out short messages that anyone can read or follow. I like Wik.is

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.) and aggregates them. These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages.

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