Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Last month, in a blog post that I wrote called " RSS As Information Coping Tool " - experimented with switching some my listserv subscriptions to RSS reader. With that said, listserv to RSS can help when you have many valuable sources. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like! Bloglines has this feature).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. The choice of method for transferring and exchanging knowledge will depend on the audience and the message [but] knowledge is most effectively exchanged when using multiple methodsâ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Use Stephen Covey's Pick the Big Stone's Method and ask yourself if you only had time for three social networking sites what would they be?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. Use your podcast for what it can deliver more effectively than other methods. I personally recommend LibSyn.com for hosting your podcast files and RSS feed generation.

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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. Hashtags let you do all the things in microblogging that you can do using the methods described in numbers 1 through 4 above. Update: Here's the feed

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. The topics they look at are what I might call social media literacy skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

A Simple Method For Getting Started. The discovery tools help you discover the best stuff through the use of RSS feeds and persistent search. (You Your content strategy is essential to the success of an integrated social media strategy. I’m a huge fan of Harold Jarche’s “ Seek, Sense, Share ” model.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Twitter is a great tool for getting your message out in a method that spreads quickly. This viral method of getting information out, is just that - viral. You can also provide external links in addition to a blurb about activities that your group at-large or particular volunteers are doing.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Though not all of this content is perfect, conglomerate sites based on RSS feeds are pulling posts and ranking them so you can even abstain from reading prose that has been poorly formulated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments. " 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. and tag it. Many times I forget. She uses the favorites option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.) and plug in relevant keywords and date parameters.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project. Not the tales itself, but the method used. Instead of paying a web developer to add new project data, they can do it using a few simple form fields. It’s similar to how one subscribes to a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Using social media tools and other methods to help people find your videos. RSS feed (of course). m looking forward to the next meeting at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain on Sunday June 3rd at 10:00 AM. 10:00 - 10:30 Mingling. 10:30 - 11:30 Roundtable. 11:30 - Noon ( or later ) Discussion. Bring your best promo tips to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. Let me define the categories for you. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

People are coming together to create cool technologies – Syndication and programming tools such as APIs, widgets, and RSS have provided publishers with a bevy of methods to disseminate information. Citizens are more quickly adept to hold government accountable for its actions. Technorati Tags: wes08sep.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The ASU Morrison Institute presents both numbers and asserts that both survey methods have strengths and weaknesses, likely leaving the true rate somewhere “between these two estimates.&# For 2008, the CPS put the Arizona volunteering rate at 25 percent. One in four. That’s a pretty big difference, between 33 and 25.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

It would be interesting to know how many of these faith based communities require tithing for membership within the community, as well as what methods they use to collect money, such as automatic account debit and online donation websites versus traditional "passing the basket." " March 11, 2011 4:51 PM John Oberg said.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

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!" But it’s not always easy.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

You can complement these traditional research methods by monitoring the social landscape for conversations about things like “pen pal programs,” “writing to prisoners.” You can create RSS feeds from search parameters on lots of sites (like Twitter and Craig’s list for instance).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? Source for Presentations, Documentation Methods. What if you and your colleagues could annotiate these photos with your own descrptions and observations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. Listening: If you are new to social media, this should be the objective for your first experiment with social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss. sector in general positioned to take advantage of these tools, or is a world of rapid, portable information organized by users too chaotic to fit into nonprofit methods? Is the nonprofit.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. RSS makes it possible for you to ??????subscribe??????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

RSS, Technorati, Google Alerts, etc). What are some methods or processes for setting up small, low-risk experiments and learning from them? How do you calculate the ROI? The Tactical and Practical. Listening and Research. What are the techniques for "listening'? How can you use different tools to listen effectively? Conversations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

It involves method, just like anything else. Blogs, social networks, social news and bookmarking sites are easy to monitor through RSS readers. " Social media may be new to your organization and hard to put into tangible calculations, but you should attempt to approach it like any other part of your job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

I used the " getting to zero " and "getting things done" frameworks to teach people methods for being efficient with email. Email subscriptions to my newsletter have leveled off (though RSS continues to climb). The online resources are here. Holly from NTEN has a post "Is Your Email Managing You?"

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2008

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!" Email remains the most reliable method for engaging supporters andraising money online.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

So they are using a variety of methods from surveys to panels. For example, my Google home page has RSS feeds from many different news and blog sources. comScore, for example, says they have “ 2 million participants under continuous measurement. &# And then they extrapolate. I could read all day on the same page.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2007

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 « Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign | Main | A.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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 « Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign | Main | A.

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