Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." So, here's another poll designed to learn about RSS subscription behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS Why? I want to help support those just starting to investigate the options of social technologies for social change work, as well as give something back to those already invested and contributing to the community. Check it out!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Nedra Weinreich of the SpareChange Blog left a pointer to comic this in a comment on my post about RSS as coping tool for Information Overload ! I've been reflecting a lot on my RSS reading habits lately and how I organize (or don't) my RSS feeds in the reader. Just had to blog it! It would make a great presentation slide!

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

This week's roundup gives you the latest in news, tips, events, and insights to help you in your social change efforts. She provides 8 Tips for a Mobile-Friendly Nonprofit Website for small changes you can make to optimize your site for the mobile web. Video cause marketing is one way nonprofits are embracing tech for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I'm discovering that I'm finding RSS so efficient that I find email annoying. changing habits is another story). For example, a few in google groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player below (if you''re reading this via email, or rss and can''t see the player click here to go to the original post ). You can learn more about Tara and the Playing Big Program at taramohr.com and follow her on Twitter at @tarasophia.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Change is hard. Whatever the case, when you’re undergoing major organizational and programmatic changes be thoughtful in the way you share the news. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Try changing out the organization name and key staff names to match your organization’s information and give it a try! Find blogs about your sector and subscribe in the same way, via RSS. Finding Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace." which then helps the organizations do the work that creates the change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’ve been using Feedburner for my blog RSS Feeds since 2005! It is time to self-host your RSS feed many people wondered? Rumors that Google will close Feedburner are circulating again, but this time there is an option for an RSS hosting service, although not free. to reflect the change in feed service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I thought the launch of my new book would be the perfect time to make a few changes! The big learning for me is to make sure that if you use an RSS service that you point the feed to your domain – that way you can easily move your RSS subscribers without disruption and that way you control your RSS subscribers not the service.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" Report: Getting the message across: practical strategies to help charities change the way stakeholders see them - Free report from nfpSynergy: Getting the message across: practical strategies to help charities change the way stakeholders see them. "The I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination!

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails. Google Analytics – [link]. URL Shorteners – [link].

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

That’s the beauty of having your own name on the ‘net folks…you decide what to make of it as your needs dictate…and you can change your mind. Those of you subscribed via my old Feedburner RSS feed shouldn’t have to change anything. I’ve updated that too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But since I’m not on twitter anymore, and I don’t read my RSS feeds as often as I should. And further, the largest change was just an increase in website traffic (20%). I know for many of you this is old news. In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

The RSS Connection : A comment from Emily got me thinking about the different experience readers have when they follow the blog via RSS opposed to visiting the site itself. This means brainstorming ways to integrate changes to the content so readers anywhere find it even more valuable.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

I’m tired of apps and technologies that sure, solve a problem, but in order to do it you have to completely change the way you think or work. RSS is dead. If I’m on a page and I know it has a RSS feed that should be auto-discoverable (just about any blog and many websites) I simply use Safari’s share via email link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

So, to change the name we need to: Come up with a new name. Make the changes: logo. change slideshare group name. change the name of the google group. change the name of the google group. I am hoping that once we change domains, all links the wiki will automatically redirect. Change Your Media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new theme!

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Forj

JUNE 15, 2021

Matt kicks off the episode with a definition of digital transformation: the process of using digital technologies to create new or modified existing business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet the changing businesses and market requirements. And I don’t think that will ever go away, especially educationally,” said Deb.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The way functionality changes so rapidly means that what you need to think about the options in so far as they can be helpful to what you want to do today, in case the way you want to use them is discontinued or changed. When it comes to campaigning on facebook, the real question is page vs group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. 2 Jack 08.07.08

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The people you want to talk to are closely connected to the goal and if one changes, the other may react. Lastly, check out the various applications that LinkedIn integrates with – for example, you can pull in RSS feeds from your blog or the organization’s website, have your slide shows appear on your profile, and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

Well, the iPhone 3G changed the equation, some. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. I said: I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications. The iPhone 3G does have 3rd party apps, but they have to be vetted, etc. by Apple, which is a mixed bag.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. It’s amazing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2013

Help a Mother Out is a grassroots organization that raises diapers and awareness, and advocates for long term change in the social safety net. She is passionate about social innovation and technology used to change the world. Lisa is a social entrepreneur with over 12 years experience in technology and nonprofit sectors.

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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). Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? There are other ways to measure your RSS reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? Chris's post gives a condensed history of Feedburner and how the need for its services has changed given the social media landscape over the past 5 years. Tags: RSS.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. use your RSS reader. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. Well, because the non-profit sector is built on human connectedness, relationships, passion and the desire to create positive change in the world. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve.

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