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Roll Your Own RSS Feed Digest Widget

Wild Apricot

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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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed. So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs).

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite.

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How to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged

NonProfit Hub

You can easily do this by creating an Excel document or Google doc to organize your content and identify what will go to which segment of your audience, and at what time. Instead, offer to communicate with them another way, like RSS, SMS, social media, a blog, or any other platforms you use to communicate with your supporters. .

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Platforms break open, part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. So is it good news, when companies open APIs that don’t make it easy to really use?

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