Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 4, 2009

And I don't like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed. I'm testing a solution that will deliver RSS updates to me via email: Feed My Inbox I'm starting with a few sites I want to track, but that are only updated occasionally.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

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). Find blogs about your sector and subscribe in the same way, via RSS. Finding Feeds. Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Use this step-by-step guide for adding RSS feeds. Create a shared tracking space for your team or whole organization. How to get started: I suggest using Netvibes , you can also try iGoogle or even Google Reader. Refer to the slides below for examples. Content Map. Why create a content map?

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

RSS as a Replacement. Enable RSS so visitors can keep up with your blog activity with Google Reader (my preference). You might even want your email sign up app to be the first one they see. If you don’t have the ability to let people subscribe to your email list online they you’re in trouble.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. 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).

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

This worksheet helps you identify what terms you need to be monitoring, what platforms you should use to listen for them, how you can generate RSS feeds from these platforms, and finally how you can create a dashboard in iGoogle. Feel free to download it and start listening today! Is your organization listening to social media channels?

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Android, iOS, Web) is like a personal web desktop for your bookmarks and RSS feeds.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 3, 2013

RSS Feeds were a great tool to aggregate news from many sites into one place and you could make it your own. Since Google and others have decided that RSS feeds are no longer necessary , boo hiss, you can use social media in its stead. Use it wisely. Now you have to use a Web 3.0 social version of it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

Thanks to RSS, any new post that you publish to your blog automatically gets published to your mobile website. Using elements, nonprofits can create a homepage and subpages and then using the RSS from your blog, you can easily and automatically generate articles and news stories. Step Two :: Sign up for Mofuse Premium.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

What I most like about Sulia is that unlike any other social network which heavily prioritizes the business community, Sulia launched with a “ Non-profits and NGOs ” channel – a very wise decision in that nonprofits are a powerhouse on the Social Web.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 21, 2010

One metric I track on our Blog is RSS or eMail subscribers. So what type of metrics are non-profits tracking to determine if they are achieving their objectives? Good question. Here’s what we’ve seen based on talking to close to 800 non-profits. You should become one so you can get new content delivered weekly.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It’s free, you can set up as many of them as you like, and you can choose to get roundups or individual alerts as well as subscribe via email or RSS. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails. Dashboards or RSS Readers rely heavily on RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Initially, all you could do was upload a logo, add a company description and website, and insert a RSS/News Feed. Over the last year LinkedIn has added increased functionality to Company Pages. Now you and others can “Follow&# your nonprofit, and you can embed your Tweets and post Services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. 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&#.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. This is a guest post by the one and only Nonprofit Facebook Guy – John Haydon (also a good buddy of mine). Make sure to check out his blog [link].

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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. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

For example, Greenpeace’s Making Waves Blog was recently redesigned to feature their “Subscribe to our e-newsletter&# pitch over the ability to subscribe to their blog via RSS. My personal experience has proven that to be a wise decision. years primarily using my website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’ve been using Feedburner for my blog RSS Feeds since 2005! It is time to self-host your RSS feed many people wondered? Rumors that Google will close Feedburner are circulating again, but this time there is an option for an RSS hosting service, although not free. And, we know right now they won’t be closing.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

We’ll cover social bookmarking, tagging, RSS and more, plus the tools you can start using for free to do it all. Tags: tags webinar presentation techsoup nten bookmarks events socialmedia rss. In this webinar we’ll discuss the fundamentals of sharing information with social media tools. More Information and Register Now!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Lastly, check out the various applications that LinkedIn integrates with – for example, you can pull in RSS feeds from your blog or the organization’s website, have your slide shows appear on your profile, and more. Mastering social networking as a volunteer. View more PowerPoint from Amy Sample Ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool! I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination! " And, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of submissions! You tell us, we add to the map." Check it out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Much of the functionality of these new Apps is based on adding buttons that link to your Twitter profile ( the mobile version ), Facebook Page ( the mobile version ), your blog (using RSS) and links such as your website, donate now page, and e-newsletter and text alert subscribe pages.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

You can use RSS to subscribe to searches on Twitter even without an account, set up Google Alerts to receive notifications via RSS or email when your station, reporters, segments or programs are mentioned online, and track the blogosphere for people talking about your content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. 2 Jack 08.07.08 3 Erin McMahon 08.08.08 at 9:36 pm Great question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

UPDATE: Most Boxes Apps will become Tabs ] Facebook has said that all the content of the Boxes App will disappear (html, graphics, RSS feeds, etc), but the question remains are the Boxes Apps gone for good, or are they just be shifted around? Again, we will just have to wait and see.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

RSS is dead. If I’m on a page and I know it has a RSS feed that should be auto-discoverable (just about any blog and many websites) I simply use Safari’s share via email link. Seriously, Mom, you can do this. I didn’t start using IFTTT because I was bored or curious…I had a problem. IFTTT solved it.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

We all want to make a difference and even the most expert nonprofiteer can always use guidance. Luckily NTEN members never cease to contribute their wealth of knowledge to the nonprofit tech community. This week's roundup gives you the latest in news, tips, events, and insights to help you in your social change efforts.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

The RSS Connection : A comment from Emily got me thinking about the different experience readers have when they follow the blog via RSS opposed to visiting the site itself. And focusing on where the action is also means highlighting posts that are getting a lot of comments so folks can find conversations that are taking place.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Think about it for a second. Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But since I’m not on twitter anymore, and I don’t read my RSS feeds as often as I should. I know for many of you this is old news. In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. It’s great – chock full of good information, and some very, very interesting research.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. OurMedia & Internet Archive - a bit more technical, archived forever, nonprofit organization, RSS and community building tools. existing and target. about 50/50 male/female. Start simple.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite. And, like all consultants, workflow involves documents and spreadsheets, and for that I mostly use LibreOffice , although sometimes using Google Docs makes sense for collaboration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

LinuxChix – What Linuxchix Are Doing LinuxChix Live Michael Stein (east) Michael Stein (west) No Thick Manuals Nonprofit Communications Nonprofit Online News NOSI NOSI Blogs NP Carnival NP IT Director NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - O’Reilly Linux DevCenter Blog O’Reilly Radar Open Sources | Rodrigues, Rosenberg, Shimmin (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Write content and secure photos for mobile pages, or import via RSS. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. 3) Mobile Website. Select a mobile CMS. Design and upload a banner. Create a “Donate Now” and/or “Text-to-Give Now” landing page. Add social networking icons.

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