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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. Further reading: http :// www.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0 goodiness.

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So you want a Facebook Fan Page for Your Nonprofit? Here's the Scoop!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I like the way NTEN does it. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. NpTech Talk. Looking for a primer?

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Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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!" However, as online programs have matured, the decline in the performance of email has slowed.