Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). I’m aggregated on live.linuxchix.org – a planet for those who are involved in Linuxchix. Second, is bookmarking. It’s a great idea, I think.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Find the vaccine information site (or sites) that is being run by your state and / or city. There are, fortunately or unfortunately, many different sites where you can go to find out if you can get an appointment to be vaccinated. If you’re an urban dweller, check for your city’s information site as well.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 10, 2020

You can count on us to publish the best deals that you need to know about , but if you want to be among the first people to know about price drops on products you’re interested in, you’ll want to get set up with a price-tracking site. Slickdeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

2005) Susan Tenby's response to the question, " Why I use Tags " shows progression from retrieval, to social bookmarking, to sharing with others - on a personal level. Plan to use eventually to share resources with clients that aren't on the official web site.). " This is an aggregation of the above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Aggregators can help, and so do social bookmarking sites, which show evaluated ranked webistes. Also, pointed to some threads about filtering: The question of relevance of all this user generated content was rarely discussed. emphasized in his presentation how important filters in this regard are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. His point 5 is something that sounds like a dream come true to me to monitor Twitter for NpTech related items I know I'm not alone in finding it much easier to share information over Twitter than by blogging or tagging in a social bookmarking app.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. social bookmarking. Look it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 Considering the nature of the site, we relay on word of mouth to reach users who can benefit from it. Can automatic translation tools, social bookmarks, news digging, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply? Read this ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

between people sharing content and between companies and sites that host content for people. As more services spring up to host specific media (Flikr for photos, Youtube for video, etc) widgets provide an easy way to aggregate all your accounts in one place. there's a boatload of social bookmarking sites for instance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent. Johannes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. The site is based on Drupal which I think is very Web2.0. apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals. I've aggregated a lot of these and other resources on the topic on my wiki portfolio.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When you give your email address to a site in order to log in or just get some info, many companies will take that as a free pass to do anything from relentlessly spamming you with newsletters to selling your email address to advertisers, who will in turn track you relentlessly. Illustration by Ori Toor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If writing up a case study or going to a Net Tuesday feels too time consuming, you can also help by tagging web sites in del.icio.us , photos in Flickr and personal blog entries that relate to NetSquared with the tag "net2" and they will feed into the NetSquared news aggregator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. Sites like Ning.com. All that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. But give it time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Rather than construct your own top ten list, you can aggregate ten other top ten lists - here's Social Citizen's Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2008. You can pick out the best content on your blog, other people's blogs, or ask your readers. Michelle Murrain has a top ten list from her blog.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. Even sites that do encourage use of images or video as part of professional sharing tend to make those elements optional while text is required.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

One way to do this is by tracking your keyword rankings and by extension the overall traffic coming to your site from that keyword. This helps me understand what users are searching for when they land on my site. This tells me that users who come to this page may be: Uninterested in the rest of the content on my site.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

create new pages for new areas of interest), refine mission statements, and aggregate research resources in a central area. You can create lists of links on wikis and blogs, but there are also tools that allow you to connect directly to other staff members while you are in the process of discovering and bookmarking items across the Web.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. The Museum Computer Network (MCN) is hosting the site, but all the work was done by volunteers. But fear no longer!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

A list of questions : These are typically called “FAQ” or frequently asked questions and are a standard category of web site content. Bookmarking Tools: Bookmarking tools are list making tools too. Here’s a good list of bookmarking tools still available. So, here’s my list about making lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. The Wild Apricot blog offers a tutorial and a list of sites currently using the API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I noticed that you recently posted on the nptech community site , how did you discover it? I'm very excited about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Update your bookmarks: [link]. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. Please don't get so obsessed with metrics that you loose site of how you're going to use them! But do me a favor, please.

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