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 ...

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 you update with new content, but there's a much faster and easier way. Publish your ...

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 to help your nonprofit ...

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? As a ...

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, all my favorite web resources can be gathered in one place for me to read at my ...

Our friends at Radar Farms have setup a Wild Apricot ''radar'' Radar is a customized search engine tracking new information related to our Wild Apricot software. It looks at both RSS feeds and websites and aggregates summaries on the radar page. This is quite cool and useful - we definitely want to know what people are saying about our product ...