Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Brian Kelly, whose blog feed I've added to my "Circle of the Wise" feed folder, has a section on his blog called ' Experiments. in Technorati. Conclusions Technorati appears to be successful in helping a new blog to be found. In my workshop, I cover Web2.0 But, what the heck does that mean? Claim your Blog???

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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. More RSS Tools: Sharing Feeds. If you're not familiar with RSS feeds, Peter's article is a good place to start. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes. I highly recommend reading these posts.

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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. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Sink or Swim, Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups by 43 folders. Add a RSS feed to your reader. Technorati. Technorati.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Technorati Tags: wes08sep. Post-event feedback shows that Vivek Kundra's presentation was extremely popular. We'll be sharing his presentation within the next week or two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. posted to blog, ping technorati. -email to list of friends. send your video to appropriate groups on video hosting sites. blogs with similar content and leave your url.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Search on Google Blog Search and Technorati --two blog search engines, for other people writing about your topic. In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." Read other blogs about your topic.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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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. Keep it short.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? I discovered that I had problem figuring out how many total feed subscribers and the trends over time because I had four feeds (three built into the typepad blogging platform) and another one in feedburner which offers the stats tracking feature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Mary Hodder's post Link Love Lost or How Social Gestures within Topic Groups are More Interesting Than Link Counts comes directly out of the discussion at blogher at the Technorati 100. Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , effectiveness , npo , ngo , workingsmart I'll be curious to read more of these experiments.

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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. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Allow readers to email posts to other people. Enable subscription by email with Feedblitz. Include images or graphics with every post to catch the reader's eye. Blogs are a visual medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

However, I can't see why anyone would want to read their feeds in Tivo! Technorati Tags: bloglines , nptech , net2 " There's a great hack to add "tag in delicious" instead of a clipping file and a pointer to a windows blogging client called elicit that I must compare with ecto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

that was part of a workshop on Rip Mix Learn , a variation on Rip Mix Feed. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , inventiveness. Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0

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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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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. Technorati Tag: TCamp09. There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area. It's ongoing today - Sunday - and you can follow it by viewing the (high volume!) We had about 28 people from a range of organizations - really good discussion ( see notes ).

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Unique Blog Readers (content consumption - Unique Visitors and Feed Subscribers). Technorati "Authority" (measuring your impact on the world!). Am I better than you because I have a higher Technorati rank? Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Cost (what!). Would that be better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Get Found on Technorati. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. Measure Your Traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Feeds - Important for distribution to pick up podcasts via Itunes and orther feedreaders. This is the call of action - get people to subscribe to your feed. Third-party services will create your feed for you. The problem is that you don't own your feed. The most important thing is to own your feed. You need this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07 at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference!

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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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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. Having people with technical expertise helped get them to the 261 feeds they currently supply. Technorati Tags: wes08sep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.) Technorati Tags: npblogtipping , nptech , blogtipping { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.03.07 at 3:22 am Dear Michelle, Thanks for the Blogtipping!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Choosing Keywords.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Chris Locke's post of various booklists people have assembled at Amazon made me realize that the good old book is a problematic resource these days for those of us who inhabit the blogosphere - you can't just link to it, or receive it in your rss feed. Technorati Tags: nptech , books , wiki So let's do it. Let's do something together!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

If you want to follow a specific space, consider finding the right people twittering about that space, and building a blended RSS feed in Yahoo Pipes , and adding that to your RSS reader , instead of using the Twitter interface itself. t just blurt out your podcast url. Why build a persona and add people if you???re

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

But a bit of reading convinced me that our blog would have far better visibility in one of the standard blogging sites that build RSS feeds, support tagging, are indexed by Technorati and other services, and in general are a full part of the hum of internet conversation.

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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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