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Attention RSS Readers: Update Your Subscription!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you read Beth’s Blog in an RSS Reader?

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RSS is really your friend

NCE Social Media

RSS - Really Simple Syndication, can be a great time saver. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs.

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Getting RSS Feeds Via Email

Robert Weiner

There are a few RSS feeds I don't want to miss. I have an RSS feed reader but I often go for days without looking at it. Some RSS feeds offer email subscriptions, but most don't. 2) Next, you need the RSS feed address for the page you want to track. 1) First, you need to go to FeedBurner and set up an account.

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Want a peak at my RSS: Here it is!

Amy Sample Ward

So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS. Opening up my RSS reader (well, except for my mom’s blog and that kind of thing!) My public RSS reader is built on Netvibes , which is a free, web-based RSS reader. This is just a starting place.

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RSS: Best thing since sliced bread

NetWits

Learn how to use RSS in Kinteras CMS Are you actively using an RSS reader in your daily life - for work and play? To be quite honest, I didnt begin regularly using RSS until recently, but it's changed my life. Why is RSS so important for your supporters? Their RSS reader will update them!

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A new look at RSS: Fever

Judi Sohn

I admit it, I have a serious RSS habit. Thanks to Fever , a brand new RSS feed reader from web guru Shaun Inman , it’s okay. They shouldn’t be read and organized like a standard inbox handles email messages, which is the way most readers treat RSS feeds.

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No RSS Feed for Your Website? No Problem

Wild Apricot

Google Reader has announced a new feature that lets users create an RSS feed to track changes to any web page, even if the site doesn’t publish a feed. Google Non-profit Communications websites RSS Feedburner. You can help those people get automatic notifications of your website changes, too.( read more ). read more ).

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Multiple RSS Feeds on Multiple Facebook Pages

Wild Apricot

Now here’s a new Facebook application that can take your RSS-to-Facebook to a whole new level. And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post.( And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post.(

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Topic-Based RSS Search LazyFeed Opens to the Public

Wild Apricot

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. Video RSS search. Now, as of August 25, LazyFeed is available to the public.

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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup Blog

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Android, iOS, Web) is like a personal web desktop for your bookmarks and RSS feeds.

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Feed My Inbox — RSS feeds by email

Robert Weiner

And I don't like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed. I'm testing a solution that will deliver RSS updates to me via email: Feed My Inbox I'm starting with a few sites I want to track, but that are only updated occasionally.

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Roll Your Own RSS Feed Digest Widget

Wild Apricot

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons.( Tags: RSS Widgets Non-profit technology Web 2.0 read more ).

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. Lately, my RSS reading habits have changed. My RSS reading is mostly information gathering or browsing. Photo by Lynetter. I haven't given up on it completely, but my process has changed. Finding ???Looking Information gathering ???Less

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RSS and Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup Blog

A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes. More RSS Tools: Sharing Feeds.

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RSS Beginners Guide and Video

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michael Pick recently posted this entertaining how-to video about RSS for some client work he was doing for a social RSS application called " Feed Each Other." His RSS Guide for Beginners is an absolute gem! A must-read for anyone trying to explain what RSS is and why one should use it.

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Beaconfire Survey: RSS | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

RSS is becoming ubiquitous, and with the sheer volume of content on the internet, more users are finding that they need a way to manage their content. RSS is becoming ubiquitous, and with the sheer volume of content on the internet, more users are finding that they need a way to manage their content.

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RSS In Plain English

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lee LeFever and Sachi created this three minute video to explain RSS in plain English and why if you're not tracking web information using RSS you need to do so! RSS is Step 5. His post is here. This afternoon I'm teaching a webinar called Ten Steps to Extension 2.0 for Extension professionals new to Web2.0 ideas and tools.

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RSS Follies | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

That’s because we’ve been recently upgrading our hosting infrastructure, updating to the very latest version of WordPress, and enhancing our RSS feed, all at the same time! You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 may have noticed a brief interruption in service recently. Share and Enjoy: Categories: About Us.

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Is it over for RSS readers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I still use RSS readers, of course, but I'm not necessarily following the same set of blogs in linear way. I don't know if it is over for me, but I haven't been as disciplined lately reading my feeds. I am finding myself keeping up through items shared in google reader or via friendfeed or twitter -- and while I'm writing via Zemanta.

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Guest Post by Amy Sample Ward: Want a peek at my RSS: Here it is!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, my response is simple: I want to share my RSS reader with you. Amy Sample Ward’s Version of RSS Why? Opening up my RSS reader (well, except for my mom’s blog and that kind of thing!) My public RSS reader is built on Netvibes , which is a free, web-based RSS reader. Tags: guest blogging RSS. Check it out!

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Balancing the RSS Scale | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

That’s why non-profits who have a significant RSS readership should consider ways to advertise their other services in their feed to push people to donate, take action, or join the email list. While RSS giveth, it also taketh away. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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Branded RSS Widget!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. Get this widget! You knew I just had to do this. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. That's my Second Life avatar). Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.

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Are your ears burning? Ultimate Guide To Social Listening Tools

Whole Whale

Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. You can get results delivered via email or RSS feed. General Listening. Google Trends can be used to watch macro search trends around your cause area.

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Widget for Publishing RSS Headlines

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This isn't the only widget that uses RSS stream headlines or content from feeds. These include: RSS Scroll Box - allows you to add up 3 RSS feeds that scroll up the page. RSS Feed Widget by MuseStorm - pulls any RSS feed into your blog or web page A quick search on widgetbox and found a few more.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake.). I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I'm discovering that I'm finding RSS so efficient that I find email annoying. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds.

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RSS Overload and Google Reader Stats

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nedra Weinreich of the SpareChange Blog left a pointer to comic this in a comment on my post about RSS as coping tool for Information Overload ! I've been reflecting a lot on my RSS reading habits lately and how I organize (or don't) my RSS feeds in the reader. Just had to blog it! It would make a great presentation slide!

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Digital Natives and Twitter (and RSS)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, none used RSS readers or knew what they were. Not sure if this matches demographic studies of RSS users or not because this group was under 18) They were aware of tagging, but in the sense of how it is used on Facebook - to tag your friends in photographs or notes, etc. No surprise there.

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So long, Zombie Google Reader | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

AFP Blog

So long, Zombie Google Reader | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : "Case in point: Google Reader. The product was “killed” by Google in the middle of 2013, and it was no longer available to end users. So it was dead and buried, right? It was a zombie.

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RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives | The Verge

AFP Blog

RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives | The Verge : Feedly appears to be the heir apparent to Google Reader’s throne, a modern take on RSS that blends some of the niceties of Flipboard (like a “magazine view”) with useful Reader features like keyboard shortcuts and tags.

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Test Post for RSS Feed

Allegiance Group

This is a test.

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Content: Guided by Voices | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

AFP Blog

Content: Guided by Voices | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : So as I moved into doing more social media work, I found people clamouring for “better content”, “content marketing,” “being a content creator,” and a million other words. Heck, I even teach a course called “Creating Compelling Content.” But a lot of organizations aren’t.

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Four things for 4th of July

NCE Social Media

RSS Feeds were a great tool to aggregate news from many sites into one place and you could make it your own. Since Google and others have decided that RSS feeds are no longer necessary , boo hiss, you can use social media in its stead. Use it wisely. Now you have to use a Web 3.0 social version of it.

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RSS Side Links & Blogger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How can you stream and RSS as headline links down your sidebar in 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? This is one of those stupd questions one that reveals your own stupidity. I posted it here.

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Five Tips for Developing a Successful Email Newsletter | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

AFP Blog

Five Tips for Developing a Successful Email Newsletter | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : Despite the advent of the “always-on” mentality that social media has instilled in us, email marketing is still one of the best ways to reach your audience, especially for small business.

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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. You can then click on the linked “Feed&# word that has the RSS icon next to it (the icon looks like a signal). Find blogs about your sector and subscribe in the same way, via RSS. Finding Feeds. Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Social Media Crisis Communications for Bloggers | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

AFP Blog

Social Media Crisis Communications for Bloggers | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : t happened. Someone took offense to something on your blog. A thought wasn’t as well developed as you imagined. Or you wrote something you wish you hadn’t. People are taking to your digital properties with pitchforks and lit torches.

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CASL – A Quick Guide and the Death of Single Opt-In | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

AFP Blog

CASL – A Quick Guide and the Death of Single Opt-In | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS'

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Information Coping Skills With RSS from Amy Gahran

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. In short, ditch the guilt, embrace the serendipity! Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. I don't feel pressured to read everything, I'm a big scanner.

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Do you change your RSS Subscriptions As Often as You Change Your Socks?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." So, here's another poll designed to learn about RSS subscription behavior.

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NpTechTag Summary: TechTalk TV, RSS in Plain English, and Inspiring Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service.

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