Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Do search at site for the first time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Citizen journalism. Google Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed. Word of mouth, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Search on Google Blog Search and Technorati --two blog search engines, for other people writing about your topic. In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." Do both searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

ll search my own blog to get that reference." Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

It was way back when you could click through the entire Yahoo directory and web sites had gray backgrounds. and found links to the author's public bloglines feeds or references to feeds. I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. Oh, and my point was. Technorati Tag: nptech

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com. Laura Lee Dooley's Twitter Tools Bookmarks. Twitter Handbook.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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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. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. Can anyone use this tag or do we want to create a special feed/account to provide filtered information? (BK: Why not just use search?"

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

I'm excited to have been asked to partcipate in this event: please check the TechSoup site often during the week - As my friend Carl always says, "We'll learn a lot and have a lot of fun!" How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? How is it better than the old-fashioned Web site?

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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 found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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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!" But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? And is it even worth it ? Is the blog used and updated?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Google+ is less valuable that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but overall the site is more valuable than most nonprofits realize in terms of referral traffic and SEO. Even though I followed 8,600+ nonprofits on Pinterest, my Pinterest Feed had become so overrun with suggested pins a.k.a. Google+ made the cut for another year.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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!" But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? And is it even worth it ? Is the blog used and updated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Are there patterns? And if so, what are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Fortunately, if you are using your blog’s RSS feed for mobile Web content creation, tools like MoFuse automatically shrink image sizes for faster loading and browsing. A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site. So, make sure you feature your fresh content first (your blog feed) and calls to action after that.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. When you don’t like someone and you no longer want to see their messages on your feed. You may have seen this when you’re visiting a site and a little messaging box pops up to ask you if you need any help. Feed me, Seymour! What you’re looking for, you’ll find here! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

” At this point that’s all we know, but the site is currently allowing users to secure their username on the Zeen homepage. The site is consistently being reviewed by White House staff and petitions that receive more than 25,000 signatures are guaranteed a response from the Obama Administration. Viddy :: viddy.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." Subscribers in Bloglines or via feedburner (Does anyone know how I can get a total number of subscribers that is accurate with several different feeds?). The tombstone generator can be found here (I have a huge collection of these tagged npflickr in my bookmarks.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Set up Yammer to host an internal, private free Twitter feed for your institution. 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. Google Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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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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