NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Lastly, check out the various applications that LinkedIn integrates with – for example, you can pull in RSS feeds from your blog or the organization’s website, have your slide shows appear on your profile, and more. View more PowerPoint from Amy Sample Ward. Mastering social networking as a volunteer. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. The slides are below as well as some notes. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. We really can’t draw any conclusions from this – the sample size was small, and, as I mentioned, not representative of the sector.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

I’ve combined some of my favorite RSS feeds from the NPTech community, Social Entrepreneurship sector, and Philanthropy news. Tags: community resources networking blogs Blogroll rss. I’m really excited about the personal pages on Alltop - so much so that I created mine and want to share it with you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

RSS Readers. In the meantime, here's another batch of T-Shirt Winners: Kristin Wolff Will Coley Amy Sample Ward Avi Kaplan Chad Norman Maggie McGary Congrats! Throughout the month of October, NTEN's WeAreMedia. worked on building the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box. Social Bookmarking. Commenting. Blogging Tools. Podcasting.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It’s free, you can set up as many of them as you like, and you can choose to get roundups or individual alerts as well as subscribe via email or RSS. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails. Dashboards or RSS Readers rely heavily on RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

We’ll cover social bookmarking, tagging, RSS and more, plus the tools you can start using for free to do it all. Tags: tags webinar presentation techsoup nten bookmarks events socialmedia rss. In this webinar we’ll discuss the fundamentals of sharing information with social media tools. More Information and Register Now!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

The RSS Connection : A comment from Emily got me thinking about the different experience readers have when they follow the blog via RSS opposed to visiting the site itself. And focusing on where the action is also means highlighting posts that are getting a lot of comments so folks can find conversations that are taking place.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool! I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination! " And, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of submissions! You tell us, we add to the map." Check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. If you are not using an RSS Reader, pick one and learn how to use it like a rock star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. What roles are needed? What are some possible tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2009

Quite a few interesting things passed through my in-box and RSS reader last week. Sample tweet: " We must finish paper on Iraq economic vision- but assumptions made so far risky and not verified with available data!" Yeah, my sister got me with one of those a couple of months back. As it turns out, they're pretty boring.

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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. After the mp3 file is complete, you need to upload it to a hosting service and add it to your podcast RSS feed. The What and Why? Marketing and Distribution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 I mean – we want to be responsive and fair and listen to feedback openly, but I think at the end of the day the old saying is true. You can’t make everyone happy all of the time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Respondents came from large organizations and small, and from all sub-sectors, and include a small sample from Arizona. Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. engage internally.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

It is also true that it was far from a representative sample of people here at the US Social Forum (which is way more female and of color than that group.) This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation. That speaks volumes to me.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Give them pass-along content like short videos and sample email text that they can share with their friends. Integrate your real-time communications channels into your website, for example, by using Twitter or Facebook widgets or RSS feeds that bring the live conversation to your site.

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Websites Content Create Newsletter 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The size and the money behind it make a big difference in generating a sample that the Census Bureau can really stand behind. In contrast, the Current Population Survey is a government-sponsored telephone survey that interviewed 57,000 households in 2008. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Gregory Heller ) ( Sarah Marchetti ) ( Amy Sample Ward ) 4. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. See a sample of what the stats look like here. Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Examples of Great Nonprofit Facebook Pages : Lance Armstrong Foundation.

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Facebook Stats Los Angeles Tips 97

Care2

JANUARY 15, 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!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. People multiplied by platform divided by an indivudal’s ability to express themselves minus misses or clash of style that degrade the community equlas trust. How do we connect? John McElhenney.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. Lloyd Davis Perfect Path Blog "I like to play with widgets, but not sure how many of my readers actually visit my blog because they are reading via RSS. I may be wrong.

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