Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Techniques for More Engagement. Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. A Couple of Useful Tools To Streamline Workflow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Kate also uses listening techniques for her personal blog as a way to build her community of readers interested in legal aid, pro bono work, and other access-to-justice issues. What else would you add to the list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. I'll be curious to read more of these experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. Technorati Tags: RSS , instruction , teaching , learning , adoption , training , effectiveness , nptech , net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. The discovery tools help you discover the best stuff through the use of RSS feeds and persistent search. (You They taste many wines to find the best of the best to match with the food in the restaurant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

5 Weaving: This technique works on any platform. One trick that I’ve used on every social networking site was to set up a “ Circle of the Wise &# — (on Twitter it might be a “List of the Wise&# or in my RSS reader it is the “Folder of the Wise&# ). This was very true for Twitter as well as Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

You can updates through RSS. Look at it as part of your organization: There have always been good reasons to build your social network, but now it is a matter of strategy and applying the techniques of network weaving. Drill down to see the details. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

To hold steady with RSS subscribers and visitors. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). I looked at the number of RSS subscribers from before the program started and afterwards - and there was a net gain 300 subscribers (see the green line). John's River that I live streamed with my N95.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. Technorati. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. and plug in relevant keywords and date parameters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

This can be put practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. It is harder to convince people who aren’t already social media users to use it in their personal lives. One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool. Three Tips for Getting Started. Pay Yourself First.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

I've been thinking a lot of about in terms of online social networking strategies and person-to-person fundraising techniques. One of the things I've noticed recently is that my social networking profiles have been really helpful in helping me get to the encounter and recognition stage with my blog RSS subscribers. What techniques?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. Even though the [O'Reilly article] describes RSS as a push technology, I just don't see it that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. Technorati. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. What is your technique for responding to comments? I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. There are other services: CoComment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. More Advanced Techniques. Basic Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'? RSS, Technorati, Google Alerts, etc). Where will you find the material to tell your stories? The Art of Person-to-Person Networking, Community Building, and Connectedness. Fun with Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI.

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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

MARCH 8, 2007

Many times, I'm asked by newcomers to RSS readers what is the best way to get started is finding blogs to read. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. I actually invented a term and technique called critical browsing. I'm interested in your thinking process. Absolutely true!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

   Geoff offers some time management techniques for social media strategists or what I'd like to call " Social Productivity " (I'm developing a workshop on that one.)    And, of course, the cost ensuring that you have set up RSS feeds or what Chris Brogan classifies as "passports."

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The Case Foundation is in the middle of a month-long series called “Gear Up for Giving” to provide social media tutorials to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. RSS in Plain English.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

So, the technique I ended up with was to capture the window and use zoom/pan in editing process. Usually, my morning ritual of RSS reader, email, and twitter and social networking dipping turn up some sort of pattern. When I first started to record, I don't think I used auto pan and tried to do it manually and it was totally klutzy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Bruce’s daily routine includes using an RSS reader/dashboard filled with the best blogs and keyword searches. We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.”

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. Blogs, social networks, social news and bookmarking sites are easy to monitor through RSS readers. The beauty of it is that the work I've been doing with my large non-profit can be translated to even the smallest message.

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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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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. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. RSS makes it possible for you to ??????subscribe??????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I think after the first day's focus on strategy, people were very much interested in getting into the techniques, tactics, and tools. Set up RSS Reader, Start Commenting on blogs. That threw off the morning of the second day which was going to focus on participants sharing their ideas and giving feedback on their strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

Then I came home and made the mistake of checking the RSS reader and found this post from Ponzi and called into the show and talked to Chris and Ponzi about my geek toy collection. Okay, enough about technique. Before blogher, I had been reading and watching Andy Carvin's dispatches from Africa and feeling that I wanted to do that too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups ! TechSoup has RSS feeds too! If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 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 give these tips a try -- and if you have other tips or techniques you use, Id love to hear about them.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

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Forum One

MARCH 14, 2007

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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!" Online charity raffles help, also.see [link] for a local example out of Loudoun County, VA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Use your RSS reader like a rock star. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt. This process consists of three activities.

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