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Archives : March 2008

28 March 2008

Get Started with RSS Feeds and Feed Readers

RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication, an internet standard for publishing updates to web-based content. You may hear it called web feeds, XML feeds, RSS channels, subscriptions, syndicated content -- by any name, it's all RSS -- and one of the most useful bits of internet technology to come along. What can RSS do for you? (read more)
Posted Friday, 28 March 2008 at 9:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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- Blogging,
- Web 2.0,
- websites,
- RSS
26 March 2008

Wild Apricot Updates and Plans

The spring is here. (Kinda of - Toronto is still very cold with piles of snow on the streets!) We did some spring cleaning for our March 6th update: Making it easier/more straightforward to handle exceptional situations - like manual entry of transactions... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 26 March 2008 at 4:45 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 13 comments
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26 March 2008

Case Study: Austin Contact Center Alliance on Growing Member Community

This months' case study looks at Austin Contact Center Alliance (ACCA) - a progressive business association out of Texas. They share their top 5 lessons in building and growing their community. We discuss how their organization evolved and how they... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 26 March 2008 at 1:30 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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25 March 2008

Recruit New Volunteers Online and Celebrate Volunteer Week 2008

April 27 - May 3, 2008 is National Volunteer Week in both Canada and the United States. The heightened awareness of volunteerism that goes along with such a campaign offers a golden opportunity to celebrate your existing volunteers — and to recruit new volunteers to your organization. Here are a few ideas of how your nonprofit might use the internet to take full advantage of Volunteer Week — and we'd love to hear your ideas, too! (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 25 March 2008 at 7:30 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Volunteers,
- Web 2.0,
- websites,
- Non-profit,
- recruiting
23 March 2008

New Nonprofit News Source

Do you find that the wealth of information online is a mixed blessing? True, almost anything a nonprofit organization might need to know can be discovered on the internet... eventually. On the other hand, information overload can be simply overwhelming.... (read more)
Posted Sunday, 23 March 2008 at 6:48 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- General non-profit interest,
- Non-profit Communications
19 March 2008

Non-profit Web 2.0 Survey

If you work with a nonprofit and use Web 2.0 technologies in your work, or to benefit your organization in some way, Dave Crusoe wants to hear about your experience. As a follow-up to questions posted to several major discussion lists, he's posted... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 1:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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19 March 2008

Wild Apricot News: Wild Apricot Receives Top Marks for Ease of Setup and Ease of Use

Web-based membership management software program for clubs, associations and non-profits wins accolades from independent product reviewers Toronto, ON March 19, 2008 -- Wild Apricot, a fully integrated, turn-key website with integrated member database... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 1:28 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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18 March 2008

Google Portal for Non-Profits Launched

Billed as a "a one-stop shop for tools to help advance your organization's mission in a smart, cost-efficient way," the newly launched Google for Non-Profits portal offers quick links to the most commonly used tools in the Google suite of services. It also highlights some cost-saving benefits that are available only to nonprofits. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 18 March 2008 at 11:58 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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17 March 2008

LOLseals taps Pop Culture Trends and Web 2.0 Tools

For an example of how simple web tools and social networking sites can be used to raise awareness of a nonprofit's cause, LOLseals is worth a close look. It's a new photo caption contest from the Humane Society of the United States, blending pop culture trends and web 2.0 tools in a low-cost campaign that practically begs to go viral. (read more)
Posted Monday, 17 March 2008 at 6:51 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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15 March 2008

Manage Your Nonprofit's Human Resources Online With Zoho People

Zoho, best known for its suite of free productivity and collaboration online tools, a direct competitor to Google Apps, has just launched Zoho People , a free online Human Resources Management Application. It's designed for small and medium-sized businesses,... (read more)
Posted Saturday, 15 March 2008 at 1:04 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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11 March 2008

An Introduction to Twitter Hashtags

Hashtags help to organize the published updates ("tweets") on Twitter into user-defined groupings around one general topic, making the conversation easy to track and easy to share with others - even with people who are not Twitter users. Here's how the hashtags work: (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 11 March 2008 at 12:50 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 70 comments
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10 March 2008

Web 2.0 Expo Seeks 10 Innovative Nonprofits

CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media are looking for ten innovative charitable and activist organizations to invite to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April 2008. (read more)
Posted Monday, 10 March 2008 at 8:47 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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07 March 2008

Social Tech Training offers 3-day Web 2.0 Bootcamp

Mark your calendars for Social Tech Training (STT), a partnership of Web of Change and the MaRS non-profit innovation centre, coming 22-24 June 2008 to Toronto. In this comprehensive 3-day "web 2.0 bootcamp," participants from across North America... (read more)
Posted Friday, 07 March 2008 at 6:49 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- events,
- training,
- leadership
05 March 2008

Flickr Gives 10,000 Pro Accounts to Nonprofits

If cost has been one of the barriers to using Flickr in your nonprofit's outreach efforts, this may tip the balance. The photo-sharing service announced today that it has teamed up with TechSoup, in a new program called Flickr for Good, to give away 10,000 one-year Flickr Pro accounts to nonprofits and public libraries. (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 10:00 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Non-profit
05 March 2008

Microsoft Office Live Workspace takes on Google Apps

Microsoft's Office Live Workspace – just launched – is a free web-based service that lets people organize documents and projects online, access their documents via the web, and share them with others who may view and comment on shared documents. It's been described as an online extension of MS Office desktop software, Microsoft's answer to Google Apps for document sharing and online collaboration. But which service would best meet the working needs of your organization? (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 12:25 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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