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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. But I have to say, I still prefer the way Safari handles RSS.

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It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)?

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, I’m trying out some new themes soon. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10 Have you experienced the same?

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed. FriendFeed Resources.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

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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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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