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11 July 2011

What is Google Plus?

There's lots of buzz about Google+, which is in “limited field trial. Here is a sample of some early reviews from the non-profit blogosphere. (read more)
Posted Monday, 11 July 2011 at 9:00 AM by Lori Halley [Engaging Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Google,
- networking
08 April 2011

Engaging News and Views

Here are some blog posts, articles and updates that Membership and Non-profit folks might find engaging and informative - including updates to Facebook's Questions and Google's plans for social search options. (read more)
Posted Friday, 08 April 2011 at 8:00 AM by Lori Halley [Engaging Apricot] | 0 comments
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29 March 2011

Google for Nonprofits

Is your organization using Google for Nonprofits? On March 16, 2011, Google launched their latest version of this program which offers several new benefits: Instead of applying to each Google product individually, you can now sign up through a one-stop... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 9:00 AM by Lori Halley [Engaging Apricot] | 0 comments
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09 March 2011

Non-profits Are You Listening?

Many small non-profits and membership organizations are wondering how to get started with social media. As we noted in an earlier post, Is Social Media a Waste of Time for Your Association, if you are new to social media, you should start by listening. (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 09 March 2011 at 9:00 AM by Lori Halley [Engaging Apricot] | 0 comments
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19 August 2010

Social Networks vs. Real Life Networks

There is no end to the challenges of social media for nonprofits. How can we keep our personal and professional lives separate online? How can we identify the "influencers"? Which social media tools are best? Here, Paul Adams, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, shares his team's insights into how people actually connect and behave online. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 19 August 2010 at 2:07 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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19 April 2010

How Fast is Your Website?

You’ve put a lot of effort into getting your nonprofit’s website to rank well in search engines, without the budget for an SEO expert to help. And now Google says your site needs to be fast, as well as “relevant”? (read more)
Posted Monday, 19 April 2010 at 4:39 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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- search,
- websites,
- Google,
- Usability
26 January 2010

No RSS Feed for Your Website? No Problem

Google Reader has announced a new feature that lets users create an RSS feed to track changes to any web page, even if the site doesn’t publish a feed. It’s great new feature for your website visitors who use Google Reader, but what about people who use a different feedreader or like to get updates by email? You can help those people get automatic notifications of your website changes, too. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 26 January 2010 at 6:47 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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- websites,
- RSS,
- Feedburner,
- Google,
- Web 2.0
07 January 2010

Is Your Nonprofit Website Mobile-Friendly?

Have you noticed there's one prediction that turns up consistently at the top of every list of "Top 10 Trends for 2010"? Welcome to the decade of the Mobile Internet. Is your nonprofit blog or website ready for readers who do their web surfing by phone? (read more)
Posted Thursday, 07 January 2010 at 9:24 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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05 November 2009

Does Bing Know About Your Website?

Google may know all about your nonprofit’s website (and your blog, and whatever social media profiles you’ve staked out on the Web), but that doesn’t guarantee that Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, will automatically index your site as well. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 05 November 2009 at 3:42 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 8 comments
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- search,
- Microsoft,
- Best practices,
- SEO,
- Google,
- website
21 July 2009

GMail Tasks are Integrated with Google Calendar

You may have noticed a new link in the left sidebar of your Gmail account recently. Tasks is a relatively new-from-GMail-Labs feature that pulls together Gmail and Google Calendar to help you create and manage “to do” lists. This isn’t a tool for the... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 21 July 2009 at 4:14 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Google,
- Usability,
- Gmail
09 July 2009

Get Started with Google Alerts - Part 2: How to Get Better News Alerts

In Part 1: How to Set Up News Alerts, we covered the basics of Google Alerts. Your first few Alerts may show a lot of irrelevant information mixed in with the notices about your website, blog, or cause. No problem! A few tweaks of your search terms can make Google Alerts work much better for you. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 09 July 2009 at 4:15 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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07 July 2009

Get Started with Google Alerts - Part 1: How to Set Up News Alerts

If your nonprofit is active in social media, you already know the importance of closely monitoring what’s being said online about your organization and your cause. Set up a few key Google Alerts, and your listening task becomes a whole lot easier. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 07 July 2009 at 7:26 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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06 May 2009

3 New Search Tools to find Research Data, Statistics, Answers

On the Internet, our challenge is not simply to find information, but to sift out the truly useful and reliable information needed to complete a task or accomplish a goal. Three new specialized search tools are available (or will be soon) to help save your organization time in tracking down public records, demographic data, research and statistics. (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 06 May 2009 at 10:10 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Google,
- Best practices,
- research,
- search
24 February 2009

Google Labs Introduces Gmail Offline

Many organizations use Gmail to manage their email, because its generous storage space, ability to use your own domain , and system of tags and filters make it easy to organize email communications. One drawback of Gmail, however — as with any web-based... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 24 February 2009 at 1:27 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Usability,
- Google,
- Gmail
27 October 2008

Show, Don't Tell: Google Earth Outreach for Nonprofits

Since the earliest days of world exploration, maps have told compelling stories to people who may never see the places depicted. Topographical lines on paper only go a small way to recreate the traveller's experience, however, and the rest depends... (read more)
Posted Monday, 27 October 2008 at 3:36 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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