Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). What's the tone, formal or informal? Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . There are other ways to measure your RSS reach.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2004

Would you like to be informed whenever there is a new posting to read on this - or any other - site? It easy - if you know how to subscribe via RSS. A study done by Yahoo in October claims that only 12% of internet users know what RSS is, and only 4% are actively using it. What is RSS? But its REALLY easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Here’s a few: #1 Listen: Who are your sources that consistently provide valuable information for learning without a lot of noise? I look for people who are good information curators. Many of those that I follow are on different platforms, so I tend to set up listening posts based on where my sources are. #2

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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 Be a digital curator with your electronic information, not a packrat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

This information is invaluable to your nonprofit – Giving you the ability become more effective with your online efforts. I know you may not have a blog, but the info still applies and there is a lot of useful information here. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email. Why Add This?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Technology has made it easier than ever to access a wide range of information, but what’s the best way to sort through it all? The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Audience matters, and being mindful of what your community is interested in should inform the curation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. I can't figure out how to subscribe to the RSS feed for #nptech at hashtags.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. and Hellotxt or your bookmarking updates through Onlywire.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Yet, if you can't archive and retrieve information that you want to reflect on and share with a community, it's forgotten. It's double work -- if I read a friend's tweet or if I ask a question and get a response, I bookmark the tweet url into del.icio.us Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design.

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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. We all talk about information overload. First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow. And then there is data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Taking a look at the ways technology companies have informed their users about product changes is instructive for nonprofits looking to announce big changes in a thoughtful way. Discussion about other services to transfer social bookmarks to sparked up immediately, and users petitioned Yahoo not to sunset the service.

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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. In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information.

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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, I think it is okay to blog private email conversations as long as you aren't airing dirty laundry or sharing too private information. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. I have one blog post here.

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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. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I was working with an informal network of organizations that had resources and reach beyond our organization’s capacity and were also focused on our same issues. I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in. I no longer felt alone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. This term includes informal and unincorporated associations that operate almost entirely off the regulatory radar screen.

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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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Now I have found way too many.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Adding RSS tools allows some additional benefits of developing content. It serves as a sandbox or action learning experiment -- as an informal way to get some feedback from content users as a prelude to overall site design and selecting new CMS based on tags. FROM OUR EMAILS back and forth).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. Can anyone use this tag or do we want to create a special feed/account to provide filtered information? (BK: How do we create an environment where people are eager to participate or do you focus on providing a high quality resource of information? e-collaboration???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.

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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. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. The Impact of Web 2.0 What on earth is a Wiki?

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Our goal is to create a gallery of case studies that will provide inspiration and information for other nonprofits. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I had already been working for NWF on facebook and myspace but I wanted to test out more social bookmarking and networking sites. It doesn't have the readership of our website, but it served as a great playground for testing theories of what information goes popular on digg. You can see the bump in the graph???our

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

During 1995 and 1996 I found myself in the position of being the person best informed about the Internet in my professional nonprofit circles. The growth of the web and mailing lists was explosive and I was very interested in remaining well informed. As I see it, staying informed and reflection are part of my job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information. Listening leads to engagement.

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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. Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. 2) Bookmarks can???t Social Bookmarking.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

I’m talking about giving people things they can use, that they would like, that inform and support their lives. I’m not talking about plastic fish that sing along with your iPod (HIGHLY annoying), electric knives, or a subscription to the latest web-based social network cum parallel reality.

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