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Nonprofit blogs: the common problems

777,  Seven hundred seventy-seven. That is the amount of nonprofit blogs I have collected so far. They are all on my Delicious bookmarking list. Excerpts from their posts are republished on Humanitarian News and The NonProfit Blogs. 777, discarding blogs which have not been updated since six months.  777, including the Good, the Bad and [...]

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RSS to Twitter: The Big Boys Have Arrived

I have posted before about how you can capitalize on your Twitter social community to increase traffic onto your blog. Regularly tweeting the new posts on your blog is the secret. I tweet a few thousand posts per month, accounting for over 100,000+ visits on my aggregator blogs. What tools are on the market to [...]

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The best free and sophisticated RSS tools

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike. Here is an overview of the tools I discovered: From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS If you want to spice up a page on your website, [...]

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How to make Twitter work for your blog in 3 easy steps

I previously published a post on how to increase quality traffic on your blog using Twitter. Here is a second simple case study on how Twitter can complement your blog and increase interest for your cause and traffic to your blog. In October 2008, I started several pain vanilla blogs on Tumblr, a simple and [...]

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RSS reversed: From Feed to Blog

We all use RSS mostly to read updates from different sites. What if we could reverse this, and use RSS to actually populate a site? Here is a story of RSS, in reverse. Maybe we should call it SSR instead of RSS… Both for work, and in my spare time, I scan the news (and [...]

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10 Free blogging tools I use daily

There is a mass of interesting tools available for the serious and less serious blogger. Here are 10 free tools I use almost daily for my blog. 1. Picasa

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The Diagram of a Social Media Network

click for a high res view. In a previous post I explained in laymen’s terms what RSS feeds are, and what they can do for you as a reader, and as a blogger. A more technical post, described some of the technical tools I use to “transform” RSS feeds to different platforms. As my “network” grew [...]

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What is RSS and what can you do with it?

There are a number of ways you can subscribe to, or get automatic updates from any site. Mostly people use our RSS feed. What is it, and what can it do for you, as a reader or as a blogger? 1. What is RSS? RSS or “Really Simple Syndication” is a technology used by millions [...]

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