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10 Tools and Strategies to Market Your Nonprofit on a Shoe-String Budget

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RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. You can even list a signature goal and download signatures. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming. Bonus points!

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

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RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. You can even list a signature goal and download signatures. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming. Bonus points!

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When not to use email.

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Last month, in a blog post that I wrote called " RSS As Information Coping Tool " - experimented with switching some my listserv subscriptions to RSS reader. Makes sense to really think about whether an information source/listserv is giving you value or not. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like!

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

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On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

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I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. The goal is to identify and analyze how museums are using Twitter and suggest best practices as well as some possibilities for the future. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

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Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. The goal of our workshop is to provide media training for nonprofits, including training on using these new tools.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

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The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them. Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). When I explore a toolbox, I have two impulses. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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