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		<title>5 Ways WordPress Helps Your Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Three WordPress Plugins You Can’t Live Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have a WordPress website. Now what? There are literally thousands of apps or “plugins” that will help you extend your functionality. Plugins support features like photo galleries, statistical reporting and event calendars. With all of the options out there, how do you know what to use. Beyond plugins that enhance your website for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media for the Restaurant World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Whitney McKim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s economy it takes much more than excellent food, the best service, and tasty drinks for a restaurant to thrive, or even survive. The key to thriving is finding a way to connect, and stay connected, with your guests. Social media tools provide a way to make that connection and keep it going. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Thought Foursquare was for Recess!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Whitney McKim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foursquare is the largest geo-locational social media community.  With close to 3 million users world-wide and over 15,000 businesses taking advantage of their robust offerings, they have proved they’re a trend that’s not going away.  Last month when Facebook launched their newest platform addition, “Locations” (their own version of a geo-locational community), Foursquare reported a record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confused About E-Newsletter Services? Take a Look at MailChimp!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deciding on an e-newsletter service can be a headache, especially when you have to set-up a paid account to really understand what the service has to offer. That’s why I love MailChimp. Depending on the size of your mailing list, MailChimp can be totally free. The “chimp” offers 3000 sends to individual email addresses and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoping That in 31 Days I&#8217;ll be Bringing You a Better Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of bloggers, I got complacent over the holidays. Life got busy and I slacked on publishing daily blog posts and chalked it up to the holidays. Today I realized that it is January 20th, long after the holidays and I am still neglecting my blog. Well, enough of that I say.I decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Social Media Webinars – 10/19/09 – 10/23/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of fundraising webinars this week including a special freebie from iStrategyLabs on 10/23! October 20, 2009 &#8211; How to Share Nonprofit Research With a Wide Audience &#8211; Philanthropy.com (FREE) October 21, 2009 &#8211; Drupal &#38; Nonprofits &#8211; What&#8217;s New &#38; What&#8217;s in the Works &#8211; OneWorld.net (Cost: Free for staff of OneWorld partner organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online reputation monitoring (aka LISTENING) can seem overwhelming. How can you be everywhere at once? The good news? There are a variety of free (or mostly free) tools that help you listen with little effort. It takes a few minutes to set-up your criteria and you are off to the races. Here are five tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Free (or Almost Free) Tech Resources for Your Nonprofit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running a nonprofit, especially for a small grassroots effort, is hard enough. To attempt keeping up with technology, educating yourself on trends and knowing what software or service to purchase seems almost impossible. So any support that NPOs can get at little to no cost is always appreciated. Over the years, I&#8217;ve used many services  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Extraordinary and Help GoodDogz.org With Your iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in July, I wrote a post about the new mobile volunteering iPhone app &#8220;The Extraordinaries&#8221;. In the post, I mentioned that GoodDogz.org had signed up to be part of the pilot program and we were awaiting word of our acceptance. Well, I&#8217;m super excited to announce that we were accepted as part of the [...]]]></description>
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