Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Email listserv signup. Twitter and other social media feeds. You don’t need to have all the bells and whistles, but start with what works best for your mission and purpose of your site. Here are some possible features you could include on your site: Event registration. Blog for content. Shopping cart. Volunteer Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). But all is not well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. The more types of updates you mix in the more interesting the feed becomes. Decide what you want to accomplish with this account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. All by next week!

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Set up a Twitter ' Tweme ' feed so that you can consolidate all of the Tweets of participants at the event. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Blog about the event before, during, and after.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Our social media strategy aims to complement our print and online advertising strategy. Receive monthly updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). When I explore a toolbox, I have two impulses. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.). Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Consuming Reading Feeds. Read your feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Subscribers in Bloglines or via feedburner (Does anyone know how I can get a total number of subscribers that is accurate with several different feeds?). It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Google Analytics.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media.

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