NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?” Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Create Netsquared Organization Feeds 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation? The central question of the Networked Nonprofit is how organizations can embrace the change. The Free-Agent/Fortress Dilemma in Volunteer Coordination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Additionally, PostRanks are calculated one of two ways, either comparing a site's content against its own past performance only (feed-based PostRank). So in that case you can compare TechCrunch to Mashable, for example, if you wanted to, but with feed-based you're not being ranked against any sites/posts but your own.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you just run the feed for online audiences, you are essentially giving them worthless content. Then, encourage them to have a question and answer period or live polling where the virtual audience is asked to contribute. As an online attendee, seeing only a keyhole view of the venue would be super boring! . Networking opportunities.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

This year, we'll also have: Live video feeds from selected sessions. As an added bonus, you'll be able to chat YOUR questions to the speakers, and the fantastic folks at ReadyTalk will make sure they get answered! As they sit in sessions, they'll type up the salient points, questions, and answers. We've set up the feeds.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

What you want them to see is the answer to their question. If a stranger lands on your website, odds are they are searching for the answer to a specific question about something going on in their lives right now. What three questions are strangers who land on your site most likely to have? Answer questions for strangers.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

If you are in the social media space, let people know by providing a Twitter feed or YouTube promotion on your website which can update automatically. On the Web, the best way to engage people is to ask a question. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Diversify Your Content.

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Place Tools Social Media Online 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

The questions from the audience, mostly general managers or programming producers - "What was your budget?" Twitter isn't the only tool that is part of the strategy, there is also a video blog that is shot by an intern and shows a more informal side of Tavis answering people's questions. " and "How much time?"

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Feed your raw data to world. Don't let your data fall victim!

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. After the mp3 file is complete, you need to upload it to a hosting service and add it to your podcast RSS feed. Marketing and Distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 What on earth is a Wiki?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2. Twitter Followers Widget from Widgettropolis 3. Widgetbox Widget displaying all tweets from the official conference Twitter feed 7. Widgetbox Widget displaying all tweets containing the conference hashtag 8. Conference Twitter Feed. Here were the elements of the page: 1.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A common question is whether to invest time in a Facebook Group or a Page. Use Buttons and the Facebook Fan Widget on your organization's web site to make your audience aware of your page and help them connect with you on Facebook. Also, Facebook has made it easy to extend content onto your page through their widget.

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Facebook Social Media Widget Flickr 55

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" How will you measure your tools' impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why Jon Stahl's link list points to an article called " The Question " - The number-one question lurking in every executive???s Michelle Murrain responds as do others.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Your answers to these questions should help you to determine the type of campaign you want to create, and how you do it. Or add a Twitter widget for all hashtag mentions of your campaign.

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Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

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!" We’ve done a lot of work in these early phases of social networking and web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Give them badges, even xml-driven widgets that feed back to the world the actions that individual user has taken and the impact those actions have had" Steve's last comment on the post suggests that the seamless integration of all the tools is necessary, but also laments the lack of second wave adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

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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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

This leads to questions on return on investment (ROI)—are you paying for a system that’s too large for your nonprofit’s more limited membership needs? Having a representative available to answer questions can create a smoother onboarding experience, letting you get your new platform running quickly. Data security and compliance.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I’d like to extend my thanks to Emily and Beth for participating, and to all of the audience for your good, insightful questions. Beth : That is a question that is not easy to answer in a couple of sentences because there are so many "it depends" variations. If you missed it, you can register to receive the recording at [link].

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Social Media Social Media Blogger 20

Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. Has this happened to anyone else??

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Google Grant Adwords Social Media 31

Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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!" Todays providers offer everything from communications to fundraising.

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Social Media Trend Advocacy Online 34

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. A little bit higher chance that we may see your question, but a little insider tip for you. This is a topic we’ve actually been getting a lot of questions about and never covered on the webinar. And we joke around, but we actually get asked this question. So don’t be shy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. A little bit higher chance that we may see your question, but a little insider tip for you. This is a topic we’ve actually been getting a lot of questions about and never covered on the webinar. And we joke around, but we actually get asked this question. So don’t be shy.

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Method Giving Nonprofit Gift 52

See3

MAY 25, 2007

But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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Facebook Open Platform Myspace 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator). Google Analytics.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

For instance, you can embed a widget on your website, or you can utilize an existing fan page. You can track your donations directly against your outreach, noting which feed posts cause your biggest spikes. So the question is what happens when they conflict? A Facebook update catches your eye. Nonprofit Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics.

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Reflection Measure Technorati Metrics 50

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. more feasible.

Social Media 34

Social Media Online Fundraising Advocacy 34

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed.

Social Media 62

Social Media Lesson Develop Media 62

Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How to evaluate and improve your website Going back to the original question, you can improve the effectiveness of your website by taking down walls and making your content usable by visitors in more ways. This is both a question of technical and legal permission. It’s redundant. It doesn’t make sense.

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