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Roll Your Own RSS Feed Digest Widget

Wild Apricot

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons.( read more ).

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. Lately, my RSS reading habits have changed. My feeds are organized into folders and the folders ordered by priority. It still is, but I now use other methods for scanning. My RSS reading is mostly information gathering or browsing.

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Connecting Up Conference: Stuart Jones - Fritz and Sauce Method for Dealing With Information Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was lucky enough to attend a breakout session called "The Fritz and Sauce Method For Dealing With Information Overload" conducted by Stuart Jones from the Old Milang School House Project. He suggested taking a critical look at what type of information you are currently wading through and as much as possible move your swim to RSS.

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RSS Habits and Tools of Edtechs and NPTechs without Indigestion.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions.

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How to Subscribe via RSS

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The RSS information from a site is known as its feed. But its REALLY easy.

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Content Curation Primer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Reading a feed of short messages sent from the #sandiegofires was very interesting, for example. Update: Here's the feed

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