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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. I doubt you’ll look back. {

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Socializing Social Media at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

You're out there being social for your organization, making connections and having conversations on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. This is helpful as a number of different staff are involved in live-tweeting NTEN webinars. Yep, it's right there in the name. Of course, you say, I know this.

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25 Ways to Increase Your Organization's Communication Capacity

NTEN

Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. Check out tools like Google Spreadsheets (which can generate a form) if you don't have anything available today for data collection. By scheduling updates, you keep your communication regular -- and you can repost, without spamming the airwaves.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up comments to all users, you are going to get spammers.

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Case Study: Facebook for Volunteer Recruitment at AVP

NTEN

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The recent change was engendered not by a desire to block volunteers or constituents from sharing information, but by a drastic increase in Spam. “Up Too much Spam or other weird things happening.

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How to Find the Audience You Want (When They’re Not Necessarily Coming Your Way)

NTEN

It should go without saying that we’re not advocating spamming blog comments with embedded links to your website – not only will that guarantee your comments get deleted, but you can also get yourself blacklisted.). So long as you consistently connect your profile to your organization’s website, you’ll begin driving traffic to it. (It

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Got Your Ears On? How to Listen to Your Audience Using Social Media

NTEN

Set up Google Alerts. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results based on keywords you choose. Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Choosing Keywords.