Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Set up Twitter searches and see if people are "tweeting" about your organization or industry. Search for your organization's name on LinkedIn. Start with your organization's name.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2007

It's just a sampler of do good bloggers (please don't be sad if I didn't include you, it's a sampler ), links to blog search engines, links to blog feed readers, and links to blog software platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

and found links to the author's public bloglines feeds or references to feeds. Sonny Cloward : Organized Into Folders By NPO Topics, including Technology Marnie Webb : Alphabetical listing by name of blog Bernie Dodge : The links on his blog labeled as "Feeds I Reads" This is where I am starting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2005

A while back, I was searching for RSS feeds and David Geilhufe shared his bloglines feeds with me and suggested others do the same, using the nptech tag. I've also been collecting public bloglines feeds from nonprofit tech colleagues (see the link list "Feeds I'm Eating"). Technorati Tags: nptech

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Tell Technorati you have a blog. Write titles with phrases that people are searching for (i.e. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Enable subscription by email with Feedblitz. Include images or graphics with every post to catch the reader's eye. How to Bake a Cake).

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Podcasting. Text messaging. What People Were Saying.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Has links to two blogs that publish poetry: Bolts of Silk The New Verse News Wish Jar by Keri Smith Books: Author and illustrator of several books including Wreck This Journal –an activity book for creative destruction (2007 Penguin Books), and the Guerilla Art Kit –everything you need to put your message out into the world (2007, Princeton Architectural (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

Allow comments and make your pages findable by search engines. That will allow each of your posts to be archived as a separate page making it easier for people to find your posts when they search for information on a particular topic. They are tags and if you click on them, you'll see other posts in Technorati with the same tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer? Next, do a social media scan of your non-profit and/or cause using Technorati or a Google blog search. Just the word 'thesis' seems to make eyes glaze over, so I'll try to keep this interesting. What shapes how you feel?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. Google Blog Search. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Search for your institution on Yelp and TripAdvisor. Go to Technorati or Google Blog Search and put the name of your museum (or exhibit, or program, or.) in quotation marks and hit search. run a Twitter feed. Search for people or institutions of interest to follow, and the followers will come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

An organization becomes strongly associated with a topic not just in people's minds but in search engines and that translates to more attention. feed), and tools that allow you to find other people and organizations who are working to solve the same issues you are working to solve. Technorati Tags: nptech, bloggerview, nonprofit,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

around 80% of the hits are coming from search. Search drives visitor behavior. hits come through search. Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? The second graphic on depth of. It's around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? " 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. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. Act 2: Why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). There's some discussion of the difficulty of tracking readership via RSS readers: Online but external to the blog, RSS feeds and aggregators can both reveal and disguise a blog???s

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." "A blogger's influence should not be measured by in-bound links (like technorati), but out-bound links. 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?).

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Care2

MAY 27, 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!" 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. At this point, I use Web 2.0 applications every day. I think Web 2.0,

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