Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

RSS readers worked for us in the early phases of social media, but as more people are connected through social networks and sharing and publishing information, there is more and more information out there. Paginator: These tools organize your social sources and streams into neat and organized pages. Technology Approaches.

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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. What do those # mean? That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

LifeStreams: 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. 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. 

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. (If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.) Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { Be Helpful.

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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. What do you think?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Her eHub site, updated nearly every day, brings us pretty much every new web-based application that she has run into. The stream of information from this site will inevitably bring something to your attention that you want to use -- or emulate. Techcrunch. products and companies.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2009

Quite a few interesting things passed through my in-box and RSS reader last week. Here's a synopsis: You know those crazy Flash videos where you can try to trick your friends into thinking they've been featured in a news story by playing on the age old psychological tenet that deep down, everybody believes they deserve to be famous?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The Wikipedia definition -[link] – suggests in fact that the opposite is true, “From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual property and establishing an ongoing revenue stream&#. Be Helpful.

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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. New posts will show up as new news items. > > My take: good thing! I've added NTEN's blog feed and the 09NTC Twitter feed to our members-only LinkedIn group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Bruce’s daily routine includes using an RSS reader/dashboard filled with the best blogs and keyword searches. Content Curation on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Communicate with your fans regularly just to stay in touch or with special news, offers and information. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Share news, video, photos, stories and what ever else makes sense for your organization. They are fully interacting. So what’s that mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

RSS Readers. Crowd Sourced News and Content. Life Stream. We've narrowed down the categories to the ones that many nonprofits are already using and organized them so they relate to key themes of the Tactical Track. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field. you work in. Tools: Monitoring.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

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. Streaming Headlines or Other Content from other Blogs or Links. -

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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. To good news, you don't need to write a blog to find people and to participate in the conversation. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). news or web feeds ????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Now I have found way too many.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Care2

OCTOBER 24, 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!" Thanks for sharing the news. I hope you and your frogloop readers can make it!

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Below and at this link is information on the position: *POSITION OPEN* POSITION: New Media Manager PURPOSE: Responsible for developing and executing new media strategies to support the Foundation’s organizational as well as internal and external communications goals and objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Does that contribute to the willingness to participate or pollute the tag stream and create information overload?). These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources. Not the early adopters suffering from Alzheimers ) What's their secret?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation." What's cool is that you grab an RSS of the search). Some have started already, as BarbaraKB notes and with Twitter being covered in the mainstream news watch out. " Social Butterfly views Twitter as a great brainstorming tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Replies only appear in your intended recipients stream and in those of people who follow both you and the recipient, so don't be afraid to have conversations with your supporters. Also, try not to tweet about your own org on an average of more than once every seven or so tweets. Talk about how your spending their money (e.g.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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!" Eldr : News for the 60+ generation. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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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. Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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!" Eldr : News for the 60+ generation. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 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!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? ” Why?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 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!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? ” Why?

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Care2

MAY 31, 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!" Get them into all communication streams, not just email and online.

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Care2

MAY 29, 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!" Get them into all communication streams, not just email and online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Emily Weinberg from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project ChipIn News Blog CrowdFunding (that is that awesome vlogger Sull) First-of-its-Kind (Peter Dietz - excellent advice on how to go about these campaigns) My Cambodian blogger colleagues have linked or posted about the campaign. re doing and ask ???em

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

This was also the chance to share news in a more timely fashion, as well as to proactively reach out and form connections, answer questions, and spark conversations. Timely means sharing our news rapidly, as it came in, rather than simply crafting careful news stories for our website at a rate of no more than one a week.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends. A well defined RSS feed will keep you up to date without wasting your time going to different sites or repeating the same searches. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends. A well defined RSS feed will keep you up to date without wasting your time going to different sites or repeating the same searches. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

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. However, I don't want stream my entire collection of.

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