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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. Put a prompt to subscribe by rss and email at the top of your blog. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Press mentions. Press that found you through your blog. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Calls to action.

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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

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. I stumbled upon the RSS feed idea when I noticed it was available at the bottom of my del.i.cio.us

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits.

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25 Ways to Increase Your Organization's Communication Capacity

NTEN

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends.

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25 Ways to Increase Your Organization's Communication Capacity

NTEN

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Use an RSS reader to keep on top of news and trends.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. RSS reading patterns are changing. I did not include spam comments or my own). I just sampled one month.