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

JANUARY 3, 2007

Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. Gavin raises some good questions: What the hell is the "NPTech" tag and how would one use it anyway?

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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. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Colman set up the nptech room on FriendFeed five days ago and 105 NpTechers have joined the NpTech Room. NpTech Talk and News.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Do you want to post the content from several different blogs and social networks to your organization's Facebook Page, and add a news alert feed for your cause's keywords, too? And let's say you want to “mix and match” — to post RSS feeds ‘A’, B’, and ‘C’ to your personal Profile; and post.( No problem. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. There are seven ways people can interact with your Page , which all effect your ability to show up in your fans news feeds. How many people hid our Page stories from their news feed in this specific time period? Make sure to check out his blog [link]. How active are Facebook users with our Page?

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 12, 2009

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons.( Tags: RSS Widgets Non-profit technology Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. 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. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

That is one visualization of the nptech data from Chris Blow. Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Non-Profit social media Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. NetSquared Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Marnie Webb's experiment with TagCloud She took the nptech bloglines feeds and got this tag cloud. She thinks it produces an interesting visual of any group of RSS feeds. Unfortunately, it can't do specific tags, so I did with Marnie's account where the nptech tag current resides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns. Just some more to ponder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

That's today's nptech twitter stream over at nonprofitpulse. You can see who is tweeting what in nptech land, tag cloud, and shared links. Would be great if people could add their twitter feeds. Also nice to see a week of top links or week tag cloud. Who is behind this? UPDATE: Eduardo Bejar.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. tags: nonprofit nptech ). Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? How do you create a tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2005

In today's Boston Globe, Scott Krishner's "Are your feeds turning into too many long tails " reports on the Supernova Conference. For an event like Supernova, that might include photos and blog entries that have been tagged ''Supernova." Ah, so the nptech community is an attention stream! Technorati Tags: nptech

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Having an easy to access web dashboard is a must.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Integrate the Activity Feed or Recommendations plugins. Those who click on the Activity Feed plug-in in particular generate 4x as many page views as the average media site viewer. Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Non-Profit social media Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Status Updates showing up in the News Feed to all fans is no longer guaranteed. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook. “My first instinct is that the changes below are going to significantly impact nonprofits,” she says, “and in many cases, not in a good way.” The Boxes Tab will disappear. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. Social Network Fragmentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Check it out! .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

When it comes to “nptech&# or nonprofit technology, there are more blogs and organizations and resources than any one person can find, let alone keep track of! creates a chance to improve this collection of feeds by and with my community. Tags: resources rss learning netvibes sharing. I’m no exception.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

I’ve combined some of my favorite RSS feeds from the NPTech community, Social Entrepreneurship sector, and Philanthropy news. Tags: community resources networking blogs Blogroll rss. I’m really excited about the personal pages on Alltop - so much so that I created mine and want to share it with you!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Just click the "Share" button to add it to your site, blog, Facebook or Twitter feed (among other sharing options). . Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN Social Media Fundraising. And when you're done, join me in thanking Firefly Partners for kicking this whole thing off with $500! We're at 5% of our goal already!

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2009

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 read more ). Video RSS search.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I may be way off.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Google has just added two new features to help you take advantage of social media: a URL-shortening service and the ability to feed your blog posts automatically to your Twitter account from FeedBurner.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter RSS Feedburner social media. read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Tags: Fundraising , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ).

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