Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. But the community blogs do provide a way for a wider audience to read the content that I have created. Second, is bookmarking. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. If you are not using an RSS Reader, pick one and learn how to use it like a rock star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Explore tools that help you slow down that river of RSS information.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. What could the peace community do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 e-collaboration???

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Many people who have invested time cultivating community on Reader feel that Google doesn’t care about their needs and should have been more transparent about the changes. Every time Facebook updates its features, layout, or privacy features it seems to upset some portion of its community. Be Transparent About Community Concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The classical view suggests that people learn all of the time through meaningful experiences and through immersion in a community of practice. Yet, if you can't archive and retrieve information that you want to reflect on and share with a community, it's forgotten. But what about a community of practice approach? and tag it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Process-driven learning is about seeing patterns and the identification of these patterns may or may not lead to a learning product.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Bookmark your posts in del.icio.us, and other social bookmarking services. Create a MyBlogLog community. Participate in online forums and communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. At the same time, we might think about how these tools might be used inside our field in the context of professional development and building communities of practice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow. before I’m spread far to thin, and Firefox starts piling the tabs into a menu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. What if you wanted to present this topic through an authentic lens of community youth?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I put less emphasis on one-way communications like websites, newsletters and press releases, and focused on more two-way mediums like blogging, Facebook and face-to-face exchanges. I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Paul Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field. you work in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

NetSquared Community. Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Tagging can be used to develop a shared archive of resources for a pre-defined group of people (an organization's staff or community of practice. Adding RSS tools allows some additional benefits of developing content. Is it an existing community of people or people coming together because you started to use the tag?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. Enterprise can mean one thing in the business community or it can mean Star Trek. It doesn???t

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

on the Nonprofit Community It's happening in TechSoup: a five-day online post-fest October 24-October 28 Join CompuMentor's community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 The Impact of Web 2.0 The Impact of Web 2.0 What on earth is a Wiki?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! Bookmark this link — youre going to want it someday, and its virtually impossible to find from the irs.gov homepage. Disclaimer Friday, April 22, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many Nonprofits Are There?"

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. Another nice educational piece: RSS Explained , by D.C. area community technology activist Phil Shapiro. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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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 have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Obviously, I support all three of these blogging strategies and I think that together they represent a resurgence of a community based form of organizing, whether in support of social service or social change. that really deepen my own understanding of social bookmarking. But I think the vast majority of the sector isn't there yet.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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 ferry initiative has been so well-received by the community, that Ms. 60) Search « Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Fortunately, if you are using your blog’s RSS feed for mobile Web content creation, tools like MoFuse automatically shrink image sizes for faster loading and browsing. Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly. Write a short blurb about your new mobile website and ask supporters to “Bookmark Your Mobile Browser!”

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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 social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. nonprofit's content and can also can be useful in amplifying the community.

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