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RSS Side Links & Blogger

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How can you stream and RSS as headline links down your sidebar in blogger? I know how to do this in typepad, but not 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? Since questions are your best teachers.

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What's Your Content Gathering and Filtering Workflow?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Step 1: Use Newsgator to read and clip posts you want to stream Step 2: Grab the URL of the RSS feed for the clip folder (you have to scroll down to the bottem of the page to see it) Step 3: Cut and paste in RSS Digest Step 4: Edit the formatting (assuming you understand it) Step 5: Cut and paste the resulting javascript into a linklist for typepad.

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I noticed today when I logged into Typepad that it is promoting the LinkedIn widget (ChipIn is the featured widget in the gallery , BTW). The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc. I don't know how good the Typepad RSS traffic stats are, but you might want to look at reburning your feed at Feedburner.com.

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the blogging platform, so adding a widget is even easier than cut and paste! I went through the typepad collection and installed (unstalled) a lot of them because, to be honest, some did not hold promise for a nonprofit org blog. It's one click!

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Act 2: Why. Finder Lens.