Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up. And, of course, nonprofits should be especially keen on being able to keep control of their data.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

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. There are also some social features, like sharing to Facebook or Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

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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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

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. Talkwalker Alerts is a tool that tracks news stories, social media activity, and blog posts mentioning your brand or keywords. General Listening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Add social networking icons. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your social networking communities. Add a website, blog, and social networking pitch to your “Thank You for Subscribing” e-mail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

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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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

For nonprofits, the ROI of e-newsletters translates into online dollars raised through “Donate Now&# technology, event attendees, website and blog traffic, and paradoxically new Followers, Fans, and Friends on social networking sites. My personal experience has proven that to be a wise decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? I try to do this for blogging, RSS reading, twittering, flickr, email, etc.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. Get the Social Media Fire Hose (using Yahoo Pipes). 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. By tying in with Facebook from the start they’ve harnessed the relational power of the most prolific social network built to date. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Google has just added two new features to help you take advantage of social media: a URL-shortening service and the ability to feed your blog posts automatically to your Twitter account from FeedBurner.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter RSS Feedburner social media. read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

Thanks to RSS, any new post that you publish to your blog automatically gets published to your mobile website. Using elements, nonprofits can create a homepage and subpages and then using the RSS from your blog, you can easily and automatically generate articles and news stories. Step Two :: Sign up for Mofuse Premium.

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Care2

JULY 26, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. This year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the barrage of incoming electronic information, and the ways I engage and respond to it is causing me to lose my way. Blogging or reading Blogs.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 10.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Allowing visitors to sign in using their Facebook and Twitter accounts can make it easier for them to share your nonprofit’s information with their networks and followers. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you. It's free, but if you want to grab the results in a RSS, it looks like that will be the pro service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

This might be a function of it being new, but with all social networks you can quickly feel overwhelmed. I try to slow to down and summarize the best concepts, ideas in a blog post. But before I can do that, I need to capture or bookmark the best stuff. I usually try to set up a small learning project.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 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!" In other words, if electronic messages can reach it, its on-line.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. How do we connect?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 10.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. This year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the barrage of incoming electronic information, and the ways I engage and respond to it is causing me to lose my way. Blogging or reading Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

I “met&# virtually Chris first through the NpTech Tag in 2007 and he kindly helped me clean up an RSS mess. One of the personal highlights of this project was finally meeting Chris Blow in face-to-face. Chris is the Director of User Experience for Meedan. Meedan’s founder Ed Bice and Andrea Burton were part of this great team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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