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Great reads from around the web on October 9th

Amy Sample Ward

." New Fundraising Tool for Your Cause: Donor Choices – Causes Exchange Blog - Have you used Facebook's Causes application at your organization either as part of a campaign or general awareness/fund raising? " Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool! ."

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email. Another Tip : Not sure how to get RSS from the Blackbaud Sphere CMS. Not sure what RSS is?

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Reflections on Guest Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To hold steady with RSS subscribers and visitors. Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. John's River that I live streamed with my N95. To keep a consistent publishing schedule.

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Nonprofit Growing Pains. Dealing with Change.

Care2

Discussion about other services to transfer social bookmarks to sparked up immediately, and users petitioned Yahoo not to sunset the service. Soon after Google acquired PostRank, a powerful RSS tool, without warning the service stopped accepting new accounts.

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WeAreMedia: Help us Create the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and Win A T-Shirt!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. We've narrowed down the categories to the ones that many nonprofits are already using and organized them so they relate to key themes of the Tactical Track. you work in.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 Netsquared Featured Projects. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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