Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

X Number of Tips, Resources, Tools, Things, Shortcuts Lists : Anytime you can create content that has a headline like X number , it screams easy to skim and useful. Take for example, John Haydon’s ” 8 Ways To Get More Reach With Your Facebook Page.” Short List of List Making Tools for Content Curation.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 3, 2013

When you have countries insisting on offices and blocking posts you have a very powerful tool at your hands. RSS Feeds were a great tool to aggregate news from many sites into one place and you could make it your own. Use it wisely. 3) You must use Social Media to replace the RRS Feeds that Google and others have dropped.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

There are so many tools out there and so many different options pulling us in so many directions that I’ve found many organizations, especially very small organizers, can feel like they are getting tied up in knots. Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Here’s an example: DIY Management Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. You can share these Blists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

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! ideas and tools. RSS is Step 5. His post is here. This afternoon I'm teaching a webinar called Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) IRC is an incredibly useful tool. I use IRC every day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. But I have to say, I still prefer the way Safari handles RSS.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

Here are a handful of communication tools we’ve been using and raving about. External Communication Tools. You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. It also features an in-depth analytics tool that lets you visualize what’s working for your nonprofit and what’s not. Sprout Social .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #13: Flock March 9, 2008 I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

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 kind of says it all.

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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. t the right tool for that job,??? No surprise there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

He points to google analytics as a tool they have started using to track their audience. The newsbox explanation seemed clear and also the wizard tools seemed flexible. This isn't the only widget that uses RSS stream headlines or content from feeds. RSS Feed Widget by MuseStorm - pulls any RSS feed into your blog or web page

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. I’ve got to catch up.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To 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).

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

If you’re lucky enough to have a decent budget, you can look into social media monitoring tools like Radian6. These tools provide great in-depth resources, but most of us will need to find an alternative due to financial constraints. Feel free to download it and start listening today!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

With the evolution of the social web and the tools available today you’re able to listen much like you can with your ears in real life. Step Two: Configure the tools. There are more tools out there than you can possibly make use of so I thought I’d make it easy and give you a jump start. Special events you’re running.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. Google Alerts now has RSS feeds, I read those in my RSS and am able to compare what captures what. Google Alerts now has RSS feeds, I read those in my RSS and am able to compare what captures what.

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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. " on the lower left side.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! Just also to say – I don’t think of WordPress and Joomla as “competitors&# – they are both really good tools, and great at what they do.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Here are seven tools for nonprofits to maximize their marketing success: Razoo. This tool is easy-to-use: users are able to craft their own fundraising pages within a few minutes. This tool is able to tell the difference between a desktop and a smartphone. Include RSS feeds. Impressive, right? WPtouch Mobile Plugin.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

However, Beth Kanter points out that when a free tool shuts down, it can be an opportunity to reflect and refocus on your reading and listening practices rather than just the tools you use. Idealware expressed their disappointment and points to some alternatives to Google Reader to consider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. I'd love to know more specifically what tools Amy is using to track her ego finds or to listen? In short, ditch the guilt, embrace the serendipity! I don't feel pressured to read everything, I'm a big scanner.

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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. Bonus points!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Fortunately, there are some free tools you can use that make it easy to get an email campaign organized and attract the interest of donors. Another thing you can do with MailChimp is create an RSS campaign. Speaking of images, Pictalicious is an interesting tool for email campaign designers. Pictalicious.

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