Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: The Results of a Survey | Idealware

Are social media channels working to help nonprofits engage their current audience? Recruit new supporters? Raise money? This 20-page Idealware report provides the results of our survey of 459 nonprofit staff member actively using social networking for their organization. It summarizes what nonprofits are using, and how well they th ink it works, for tools including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, blogs, photo sharing, and video sharing site. Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: The Results of a Survey | Idealware

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Can you make a blog where you don't have to blog?

Welcome to Social Media Ideas. My first idea is to make a blog for nonprofits that requires minimal to no blog entry. It's basically a blog that runs off RSS feeds. If you are a ocean-related nonprofit, just paste in the different RSS feeds from organizations like NOAA. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/rss.html

Here's a quick video tutorial that demonstrates how to do it using a blogger gadget.