Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By enabling your website visitors to easily share what their interested in via the “like” button you’re quickly benefiting from the fact that all those “likes” show up in the Facebook activity streams and walls with a link back to your website. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. 3 Starter Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. 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. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

You can also see who has placed your Twitter feed into a list. Twitter lists will change how we follow streams. . Twitter lists will change how we follow streams. Tags: Microblog Tools haydon lists twitter winer. Twitter unleashed its lists to the general public last week. You can put people you follow into a list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2005

In today's Boston Globe, Scott Krishner's "Are your feeds turning into too many long tails " reports on the Supernova Conference. For an event like Supernova, that might include photos and blog entries that have been tagged ''Supernova." Ah, so the nptech community is an attention stream! Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. e-collaboration???

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By enabling your website visitors to easily share what their interested in via the “like” button you’re quickly benefiting from the fact that all those “likes” show up in the Facebook activity streams and walls with a link back to your website. Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

I learned a lot and just beginning to think about how it applies to the NpTech tag discussion. Google reader has google reader sharing - reblogging - Imagine a power RSS user culls posts that are really useful and clicks share - and creates an exhaust feed of items. nptech tag, the feedburner feed, and a few other sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! . Why limit yourself?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Tags: community digital learning africa education. Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). PDT Beth and Allison will celebrate with a virtual book party on U-Stream and Twitter (#netnon). NetSquared Local Reaches 70 Groups Worldwide! At 4:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Tags: Tips Tools and Tactics online-offline tweet up. Be creative. Keep in touch. What’s A Tweet Up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. For others, the concept of ???public public information???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

He has focused on one channel, Instagram, because he wants to show the world his professional life at the Met through the eyes of his iPhone. I analyzed his photo stream and witty narrative to connect examples of what he shares to the criteria for an effective personal brand. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine. Visibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream. Tags: friendfeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Tagging folks in pictures and asking them to tag themselves also increases engagement, puts a face to a name, and humanizes the process by bridging online and on-land worlds.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using hashtags lets you mark your message as pertaining to a certain topic, then automatically include that message in a stream with everyone else’s that include the same hashtag. #4Change: If you want to learn more about the #4Change monthly chat series, visit [link] The next chat topic will be announced there and on Twitter using #4Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What's interesting about this Twitter account is that it isn't an automatic feed that streams links to their own reports. Tags: scholar trust agent twitter. They are building a following of journalists and others who are looking for carefully vetted scientific information. Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 .

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JANUARY 21, 2009

On Tuesday, everyone wanted to watch video, and that produced bulky streams of data traveling from media companies’ data centers out to people at work and in their homes. million video streams over a nine-hour span up to midafternoon. million streams provided during all of Election Day. CNN said it provided more than 21.3

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Need for Feed: Your [Shared] Social Activity Stream. Share Your Content: Share & People-Tag Your Stories & Media. Here are seven major aspects of Facebook you can use to increase the visibility of your startup, business, product or service: 1. Set Up Your Graph: Profiles & Privacy.

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JULY 2, 2019

If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? Exp: tagging sponsors, creating Facebook events with co-hosts, etc.) . Accept donations while Live Streaming. . A few years ago, most of your fans saw your posts in their feeds.

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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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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

Of course, we're going to aggregate photos, videos, blog posts, and various other content tagged "09NTC" But that's just the beginning. This year, we'll also have: Live video feeds from selected sessions. You can join in the fun by watching the stream and sharing your thoughts and commentary with the bloggers. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Link to your social networks, post current news, stream video and audio clips, etc. Tags: ROI. Moderate* 10.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

From here, you can see athletes’ tweets, Instagram pictures and Facebook feeds. You can follow your favorite athletes’ social accounts by creating your own customized feed. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter will see these hashtags and then organize all posts featuring those hashtags into one consolidated stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

I used to obsessively check my email, and then I moved on to obsessively checking my Facebook feed, but now I try desperately to limit my distraction and ADD time and I just manically check my tweet-stream. Tags: community guest blogging networking twitter. “You’re not a doctor”, he’d say, because he was one. suzboop on Twitter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network. Streaming audio/video and PowerPoint presentations can even be shown in the virtual environment. . FYI: it doesn't work over 3G.) What do you think?

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2009

You may have noticed that LinkedIn rolled out some new features for groups: Group managers can add RSS and Atom feeds to the News section. I've added NTEN's blog feed and the 09NTC Twitter feed to our members-only LinkedIn group. I'll definitely remove the 09NTC feed after the conference. > My take: good thing!

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

The New York State Senate has a Twitter feed. They post everything, including links to live streams of sessions, statements, and legislative updates. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency. The New York State Senate website is built on Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. What do you think?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. These services are fun and useful. That's a huge win for efficiency.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Feed digest. Tags: events liveblogging 09ntc beth kanter conference metrics strategy. Listening tools: Netvibes.

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