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16 April 2010

Monitor the Web in Real Time: Instant Dashboards

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. Now imagine one custom site that lets you monitor all that data at a glance – a dashboard that's updated in real time. (read more)
Posted Friday, 16 April 2010 at 4:56 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Widgets,
- Social networking,
- RSS,
- websites,
- social media,
- search,
- productivity
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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16 December 2009

FeedBurner Gets Social

Google has just added two new features to help you take advantage of social media: a URL-shortening service and the ability to feed your blog posts automatically to your Twitter account from FeedBurner. (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 16 December 2009 at 3:07 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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25 September 2009

Multiple RSS Feeds on Multiple Facebook Pages

We’ve talked recently about how to publish your Twitter updates to Facebook Page or personal Profile page. Now here’s a new Facebook application that can take your RSS-to-Facebook to a whole new level. Do you want to post the content from several different... (read more)
Posted Friday, 25 September 2009 at 4:53 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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16 September 2009

Twitter Replies by Email - Alternatives to TwitApps

What do you do when a favorite web application goes away? That’s what some 4000 users of TwitApps are wondering, now that the Twitter-to-email tool is being dropped by its developer. Sure, the code is going open source — inevitably, a new tool will... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 3:04 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 6 comments
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26 August 2009

Topic-Based RSS Search LazyFeed Opens to the Public

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. The... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 9:36 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Video,
- RSS,
- search
12 March 2009

Roll Your Own RSS Feed Digest Widget

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 12 March 2009 at 10:05 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 12 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Best practices,
- Widgets,
- RSS
29 July 2008

How to Make Your Own Custom News Page

RSS is a very powerful technology , useful for anyone to gather and digest many information sources in one place — and even more useful for nonprofits to get their information out to their members and supporters. If you were to put all of your most... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 29 July 2008 at 8:55 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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- websites,
- RSS,
- spreadsheets,
- tables,
- Google Docs,
- Widgets,
- Web 2.0,
- Best practices
19 June 2008

Easy RSS Updates with PingShot

Most of the search engines and web-based feed reading services will check for updates to your blog from time to time, but what if you have breaking news that you want to get out fast? You can notify ("ping") each feed reading service separately whenever... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 19 June 2008 at 2:03 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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- Blogging,
- publicity,
- Feedburner,
- RSS
07 April 2008

Get Started with FeedBurner

If your nonprofit website includes an RSS feed, are you making the most of that technology? A free online service called FeedBurner turns your blog's RSS feed into a browser-friendly page that makes it easy for readers to subscribe to your blog updates. But that's just the beginning of what FeedBurner can do for you -- (read more)
Posted Monday, 07 April 2008 at 1:54 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 13 comments
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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
18 December 2007

Case Study : How to Reach New Constituents, Build Relationships and Drive Actions

For this month's case study, we caught up with Curtis Brown from Mission Movers Group for an interview about using email and web 2.0 to reach new constituents and building relationships. As President of Mission Movers, Curtis works with clients across... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2007 at 9:00 AM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 1 comments
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24 October 2007

Top 10 RSS Feed Readers

iGoogle is a start page tool where you can aggregate all the Google resources you use on your online desktop, eg gMail, Google Calendar. I personally love my igoogle. It allows me to customize my RSS feeds by allowing me to develop tabs per subject.... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 7:13 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Best practices,
- RSS
25 April 2007

Nonprofits should take advantage of RSS

One of my favorite things about Web 2.0 tools is that they help me make sense of the enormous amount of information, blogs and news available on the web. Instead of going to 10 or 20 websites and typing their addresses or even going through my bookmarks,... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 25 April 2007 at 6:37 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 7 comments
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