Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). Circle of the wise - how many feeds you'll read).

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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. A quick search on widgetbox and found a few more. drives traffic c.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It’s important to find your page first because often LinkedIn members will incorrectly name your nonprofit on their LinkedIn Personal Profile, thus also creating a Company Page for your nonprofit incorrectly named and difficult to find in searches. Also, it’s important to note that you can not use a Gmail, Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ).

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. Some other urls here and here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. Hosting a database of nonprofit information including mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs, GuideStar allows users to search for specific nonprofits, analyze data, and update their own organization’s file.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. What do those # mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

Just search 12NTC on flickr to browse the conference stream and see what attendees are up to. Check out the RSS feed of NTEN’s NTC related blog posts on the homepage, which is also pulling in the Twitter feed. Each session page pulls in the unique feed for that session as well.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. Buffer allows you to schedule your posts for social media ahead of time and curate content from other websites through feeds. It allows for you to search for documents, threads and hashtags.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

I’ll use tagging more often than I did in the past to help in searches. I set up two new RSS feeds, so for folks who want the geekie stuff, you can get just those posts. I set up two new RSS feeds, so for folks who want the geekie stuff, you can get just those posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 21, 2018

Google’s search optimization algorithm, your email marketing platform and your RSS feed are just a few things to pay attention to and learn from. Our jobs get harder yet when we’re constantly trying to combat staff turnover. Come back to this mantra when you’re feeling overwhelmed about being behind in the industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. You get summaries and then it takes you to the source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Keep in mind that your avatar will probably be displayed on hundreds, and hopefully thousands, of LinkedIn Profiles and featured in search results and the news feeds of your new members when they join your group. Don’t Use News Feeds. If not, you’ll need to enlist a designer who can create one, or you can use a photo.

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Care2

JANUARY 4, 2010

Danny Sullivan, a search engine expert analyzed another chart by Factual that showed additional stats but without exact percentages. 19% of sites have an RSS feed. *6% . *2% of sites display both a Twitter and Facebook link. After reviewing the charts he estimated about: *20% of sites use Flash. *19%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Google already knows enough about me (it reads my mail, my feeds, my search history, and a few shared documents, to boot,) I’m certainly not going to add virtually everything else I do (the percent of things I do using a protocol other than http(s) is dwindling by the second.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A quick search of the term “nonprofit&# in the iTunes App store returns less than 50 Apps, and most of those are miscategorized Apps. Each button is then edited individually by adding either a link, a RSS Feed, or by checking a box indicating you will add further information later in the Sweb App Management System.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

" Corey P of the 501c3Cast uses a rss feed for "nonprofit" search with Terraminds. With TweetScan you can choose to: Subscribe to the RSS feed for the tracking term using your feed reader. or join TweetScan and have the search results email to your daily or weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page. Career pages help nonprofits and the right people to serve that organization’s cause find one another more easily than is possible on other job search sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. Are you currently using RSS Reader? How many feeds? This is a listening project and you'll be "searching" as well as participating. Use Twitter Search or one of the other Twitter search clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

The disadvantage to this is in terms of search engine rankings. You can use WordPress XML files, DotClear files, or RSS/Atom feeds (which would allow import from just about any CMS platform, such as Drupal or Joomla.) The best situation would be if all pages in your site live at [link] instead of at a CNAME pointer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. Decide what you want to accomplish with this account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati is very easy to use, no more difficult than typing in a few words and hitting search button.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Web searches dont turn up much for this specific organization. Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N.

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