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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. According to TechCrunch , Bloglines experienced a major outage, leaving many who use bloglines taking a serious look at alternative RSS readers and exporting and backing up our OPML files.

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Content Curation Primer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

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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. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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Metaphors: Picking Low Hanging Fruit With Tagging Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss.

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Blogrolls Best, June 15 Edition - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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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!" In no particular order.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs

Have Fun - Do Good

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. Example: NetSquared's blog is a community blog that anyone can post to about resources, events and information related to how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. into an RSS Reader????

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