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Social media for political scientists: monitoring with iGoogle, Google Reader and Hootsuite

September 9, 2011

My APSA short course last week covered Social Media for Political Scientists. In my last post about the session, I talked about how political scientists can approach social media strategy, and shared the slide deck from our session. Today, I start the process of rounding up resources that can help you get started with the [...]

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The 5 requirements for using RSS aggregation to build your online presence

October 15, 2010

If your organization’s online audience is smaller than a million, an aggregation-based web site may be your best best for creating a lively social media presence. This posts maps out the 5 essential ingredients for a successful aggregation strategy.

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18 tools for effective social media participation on blogs and beyond

May 30, 2009

An overview of the tools I rely on to participate effectively in the thriving world of social media.

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DoodleBuzz offers a new way of visualizing the news

March 14, 2009

DoodleBuzz is a fun tool that presents news stories from your search, arranged along the outline of your doodle. But there’s a practical value to this gee whiz app.

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Facebook vs twitter

April 28, 2007

I’m now looking for a Facebook status updater that’s as convenient as Twitterbar (which lets me type my status directly into my browser’s address bar, then press a little + sign to post.)

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Choosing a Platform for Telecentre.org

November 7, 2006

Telecentre.org has outlined plans for a distributed network of telecentre network sites around the world, which will include a site for telecentre.org itself. Mark Surman engaged me to help specify the platform requirements for creating a distributed network of sites that will share and exchange content. This document outlines the process we followed for choosing [...]

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Tagging for world domination

August 26, 2006

Tags can help you drive traffic to your website and build engagement in your online community. Here are my secrets to tagging success.

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Make your nonprofit more effective with RSS aggregation

October 28, 2005

TechSoup invited me to be part of their online event on Web 2.0 this week. Since I was on call for a discussion about social bookmarking and aggregation, I put together a short overview of how aggregation can help nonprofits, and another on how social bookmarking can help nonprofits. Here’s my quick take on three [...]

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Aggregation as an endless loop

October 10, 2005

Here’s a challenge for wiser RSS-wranglers than I: as aggregation becomes a more widely used tool for populating web sites, how do we prevent RSS feeds from being cluttered with multiple identical posts? I was just looking at the Technorati tag page for net2, where a couple of my Net2-related posts have each appeared twice. [...]

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Latest project: TechSoup/CompuMentor

September 19, 2005

My latest venture in the fabulous world of Web 2.0 is helping CompuMentor — home of TechSoup — set up an online community in conjunction with an event they are organizing for next spring. Job one? Use this post to check whether the aggregation is working.

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Speed feeding

August 22, 2005

Part of the plan with the telecentre.org ecosystem is to bring relevant content into telecentre.org sites using RSS. In the case of event sites — like the Capetown site that is the very first telecentre event site to get up and running — we’ll use special tags (keywords) to help create our event blogs. That [...]

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