Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Do you read Beth’s Blog in an RSS Reader?

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. " It is also very easy to import your feeds from your old reader to Feedly.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. You can get results delivered via email or RSS feed. General Listening. Twitter Listening. Facebook (Meta) Listening Tools.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2009

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. Video RSS search. At first I wasn’t sure that LazyFeed would.(

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

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! Choose the “feed&# option and then hit save on that alert. Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 3, 2013

3) You must use Social Media to replace the RRS Feeds that Google and others have dropped. RSS Feeds were a great tool to aggregate news from many sites into one place and you could make it your own. If someone likes a link and shares it all you have to do is refresh your social media feed. Use it wisely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

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. My RSS reading is mostly information gathering or browsing. Photo by Lynetter. Finding ???Looking Information gathering ???Less

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes. More RSS Tools: Sharing Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2005

At one point, I had a linklist called "RSS Feeds I'm Eating" but I've decided to dump them into del.icio.us I keep remembering how overwhelmed I felt when I first started my quest to find blogs to read that would speak to my interests in nonprofit technology. using nptech and bloglines tags.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been close to 10 years since Facebook first introduced the News Feed. And since then, Facebook has implemented over 30 major algorithm changes to determine what is prioritized on your Facebook News Feed. They have to “Like” your page before they can check “See First.”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Are you using RSS to listen, but want to know how to fine tune your listening skills? Let's say that you have mastered using an RSS reader like bloglines or google reader or event NetVibes to read feeds. And you've integrated reading feeds from blogs and web sites into your daily routine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2007

Michael Pick recently posted this entertaining how-to video about RSS for some client work he was doing for a social RSS application called " Feed Each Other." His RSS Guide for Beginners is an absolute gem! A must-read for anyone trying to explain what RSS is and why one should use it.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 18, 2013

RSS app Feedly gains half a million new users after the death of Google Reader | memeburn

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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? Opening up my RSS reader (well, except for my mom’s blog and that kind of thing!) creates a chance to improve this collection of feeds by and with my community. Tags: guest blogging RSS. Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2008

I don't know if it is over for me, but I haven't been as disciplined lately reading my feeds. I still use RSS readers, of course, but I'm not necessarily following the same set of blogs in linear way. I am finding myself keeping up through items shared in google reader or via friendfeed or twitter -- and while I'm writing via Zemanta.

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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. Thank you so much Phil!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard).

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AFP Blog

MARCH 20, 2013

RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives | The Verge : Feedly appears to be the heir apparent to Google Reader’s throne, a modern take on RSS that blends some of the niceties of Flipboard (like a “magazine view”) with useful Reader features like keyboard shortcuts and tags.

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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 started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually. Circle of the wise - how many feeds you'll read).

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

So long, Zombie Google Reader | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : "Case in point: Google Reader. The back end of Google Reader kept on plugging away, checking feeds, dutifully reporting how many subscribers it was polling on behalf of. So it was dead and buried, right? It was a zombie.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Create a shared tracking space for your team or whole organization. How to get started: I suggest using Netvibes , you can also try iGoogle or even Google Reader. Refer to the slides below for examples. Content Map. Why create a content map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Reed Stockman from AFP Blog (Associate of Fundraising Professionals) told me that he is using a widget called RSSMIX to combine feeds and republish them on their Master Blog. This isn't the only widget that uses RSS stream headlines or content from feeds. He notes that this widget is useful because it: a.) drives traffic c.)

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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 kind of says it all.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

If you are an RSS subscriber to NetWits, your feed will be automatically updated with the main npENGAGE Interactive feed. From there you can subscribe to the whole npENGAGE feed or stick with the interactive feed to keep getting the same great content you’re used to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. Amy notes that: In a separate folder I monitor my feeds from people I follow on Twitter, as well as my friends and groups on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

What I most like about Sulia is that unlike any other social network which heavily prioritizes the business community, Sulia launched with a “ Non-profits and NGOs ” channel – a very wise decision in that nonprofits are a powerhouse on the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

For novices just starting to explore social media, I recommend google alerts as the first listening step because they didn't have learn another application (RSS Readers) to get started. I use google alerts, but always wished they had an RSS option. I get way too email that I can barely keep up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

But small nonprofits are going have a harder time with the new Pages, at the very least initially, because: 1) Status Updates showing up in the News Feed to all fans is no longer guaranteed. 90% of the power of a Facebook Fan Page is being able to post Status Updates that can be viewed by fans in their News Feed.

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

This worksheet helps you identify what terms you need to be monitoring, what platforms you should use to listen for them, how you can generate RSS feeds from these platforms, and finally how you can create a dashboard in iGoogle. Feel free to download it and start listening today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed?

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

RSS is dead. I spend a lot of time on my iPad and I was frustrated at how near impossible it was to add a new feed to Google Reader from the iPad Safari browser. 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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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. was difficult.

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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." Cherrypicking certain posts/feeds? or do they click through?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The site sports a cleaner design, a new author photo , a responsive web design plugin so the site is readable on mobiles and tablets, and I’ve migrated off Feedburner for my RSS subscription management to FeedBlitz. Housekeeping Details. He calmly held my hand through the process! Responsive Web Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2005

How can you stream and RSS as headline links down your sidebar in blogger? If you want to have a stream a RSS feed as headlines on your side bar in blogger, after you create the javascript, where do you put in the template? This is one of those stupd questions one that reveals your own stupidity. I posted it here.

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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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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Considered one of the best RSS feed readers available, it gives a clean and clear experience, intuitively tracks what you’ve read and helps with organizing all your various subscriptions into convenient groups.

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