NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. Google news feed about the event. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Technorati Tags: wes08sep. Yesterday, my colleague Chris von Spiegelfeld shared some impressions of our recent event Web Sites Without Walls. Post-event feedback shows that Vivek Kundra's presentation was extremely popular. We'll be sharing his presentation within the next week or two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. posted to blog, ping technorati. -email to list of friends. send your video to appropriate groups on video hosting sites. blogs with similar content and leave your url.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Conversation habits in the comments in the blogs - it's what makes them a social media.

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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. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Sink or Swim, Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups by 43 folders. Add a RSS feed to your reader. Technorati. Technorati.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Please feel free to add your own tips in the comments. Search on Google Blog Search and Technorati --two blog search engines, for other people writing about your topic. Comment on other people's posts about your topic. If you look at the bottom of any of the posts on Have Fun * Do Good , you'll see Technorati tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Unique Blog Readers (content consumption - Unique Visitors and Feed Subscribers). Technorati "Authority" (measuring your impact on the world!). Is Will Richardson better than me because he gets more comments? Am I better than you because I have a higher Technorati rank? Cost (what!). Would that be better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

and digging out from a flood of emails, comments, unread posts in my reader, etc -- and it looks like I'm not the only blogger with insomia related to Katrina. When you've posted to your blog, be sure to include a link to this Technorati tag: International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day. I'm baack from vacation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Get Found on Technorati. Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. If that's your intention - go right ahead. But know there are other video hosts. Measure Your Traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the thread continues from Ed Batista today with Baby Got Back(-End) where he fuses Ruby Sinreich 's and Kurt Voelker 's comments from the previous thread into a list of qualities of blogs (or bloggish web sites): 1. dialog (either between blogs and/or in the comments). Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). On-blog measurements include site traffic logs as well as commenting. feeds allow determined users to trace specific readers who have loaded an author??? s URL or IP address.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Choosing Keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. I did post a comment right away after discovering your blog.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. The particular Web2.0 Social Networking Tool or Service.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. I'm also having some problems with lumping all the engagement measures together, although it's good for a quick and dirty analysis. Is the number of comments the sole measure for success of a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Tracking Blog Conversations. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Tracking Blog Conversations. Ice Rocket.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

Allow comments and make your pages findable by search engines. In the Comments Settings: click "Anyone" in answer to "Who Can Comment?". You want to encourage people to comment on your posts. To prevent spammers or other non-humans from posting a comment click, "Yes" in answer to "Show Word Verification in Comments."

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Tell Technorati you have a blog. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Link to other bloggers in your posts. Have a blogroll.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

"A blogger's influence should not be measured by in-bound links (like technorati), but out-bound links. Going on with the traffic metaphor, there was a comment that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe."

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. Having people with technical expertise helped get them to the 261 feeds they currently supply. Technorati Tags: wes08sep.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! And if you want everything, look in these spots: Technorati. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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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!" Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds.

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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. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? Act 2: Why.

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Care2

MAY 27, 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!" Reader Comments (8) Sorry to miss out on your session - was traveling. A great overview!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. Greg Beuthin, ext311. Zac Mutrux, ext437.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

It feeds into a variety of publications that I offer, some for free and some for sale. " Q: Many "blogs" have a comments or trackbacks section. I have mixed opinions about comments or trackback. Have you seen some really compelling outcomes of comments and trackbacks? Technorati Tags: nptech.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments. Writer/Writing Blog Sampler 100 Mile Diet by J.

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