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• 09 October 2008

  Good2gether: News and Nonprofits  

  Media outlets need to enrich the syndicated wire service stories with local content if they are to attract readers and advertisers — but few have the budget, these days, for a cadre of local reporters to seek out and report on the "local angle" of a story. Nonprofits working on the ground in a community do have that local content to offer, but perhaps no way to distribute it. Enter good2gether , a new web service that wants to play matchmaker. Good2gether is the brainchild of entrepreneur Greg McHale, Read More... Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:02 PM by Rebecca | 0 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Marketing, Web 2.0, Widgets, Non-profit Communications

• 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 important news sources onto a single web page, what a useful resource that could be! Remember when we mentioned the launch of Alltop.com , earlier this year? Alltop collects the most recent stories from the RSS feeds of selected sites, and shows the headlines Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:55 PM by Rebecca | 3 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Widgets, Non-profit Communications, websites, RSS, spreadsheets, tables, Google Docs

• 07 July 2008

  4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site 

  If your organization makes PowerPoint slideshows for special events, meetings and conferences, you've probably put a lot of time and effort into creating each one. Why not get extra mileage from those PowerPoint presentations by putting them onto your website or blog for others to see? Here are four different ways to share PowerPoint files on the Web. Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 2:45 PM by Rebecca | 17 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Widgets, Non-profit Communications, websites, Microsoft, open source, SWF, PowerPoint