Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. NetSquared Think Tank: Curating Content. However, curation is not only about what the audience wants but also about finding content that would expand the audience’s horizons.

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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. Chris Heuer (who was on a tagging panel at Netsquared with Marshall and me two years ago) has some additional thoughts on tagging. Enter Hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. NpTech Talk. Looking for a primer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.) You have to be organized and know your sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati.

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MARCH 4, 2007

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. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. There's a move to make it easier for people to find opportunities to take action. Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. Very exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

Perhaps I can coax them to share a little bit more of what they're doing over at the discussion about nonprofit tagging for netsquared. This is what I'm wondering: What was the planning process around tagging to produce the RSS feeds? Who in the organization is doing the tagging? What is the tag design? How are they using tagging?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

  Strategy Tip:   Become an expert in news gathering and RSS and aggregate content for your niche like no one else. Netsquared. .   These become the living version of the organization's topic areas and are typically made up of short posts that link to other content sources for the full story.  Life on Mars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs??? The simple reason ???

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JANUARY 10, 2007

Have an RSS feed and comments. The number one mistake I see nonprofits make is to set up a blog that doesn't have an RSS feed or comments. In my opinion, a blog without an RSS feed or comments is not a blog, it is simply someone writing regularly on a web site. This post was originally written for the NetSquared blog.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 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!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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MAY 1, 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!" I hope to see you there.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. This post was originally written for NetSquared. for Good has some interesting examples up right now of how their tools can be used for good. Because Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Do you have an opinion? How do you use the NpTech Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! According to TechCrunch , Bloglines experienced a major outage, leaving many who use bloglines taking a serious look at alternative RSS readers and exporting and backing up our OPML files. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization. Johannes). And if you???re

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 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 « NetSquared DC: Beyond the Logic Puzzle | Main | Have you read your RSS feeds today?

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OCTOBER 7, 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!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

In a few weeks, I'm lucky to be going to the netsquared conference I signed up to go with the intent of being a sponge -- to learn more about all this stuff. But Marshall emailed me the other day to ask me if I would be on his session at the conference on tagging and rss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups ! TechSoup has RSS feeds too! More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Follow the links from here.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2007

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FEBRUARY 26, 2006

One of the podcasters at NetSquared , where I work, uses the Olympus DM-20 digital recorder , which isn't cheap, but is more affordable than the options above, and I think it comes with a microphone. I know that many people don't know how to subscribe using RSS feeds and/or don't have an mp3 player.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. I remember stepping into a Netsquared meet-up and meeting for the first time three people who I???ve t that bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

" The term information overload made me think of Marshall's fabulous interview with Robin Good on netsquared: " Mastering Information Overload." These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources.

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MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. Example: NetSquared's blog is a community blog that anyone can post to about resources, events and information related to how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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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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JUNE 21, 2007

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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. There are different tools and methods that you can use to listen , including free tools like google alert, technorati, RSS readers , and even Twitter. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions.

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. What questions and answers would you add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Cross posted at Netsquared It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 or more like web 1.0?) Need a chuckle?

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