Thanks to Dissident , a delightful blog discovery, I've also discovered the Common Craft Show and two video presentations -- the best I've ever seen for newbies on using RSS and Wikis. Click To Play RSS in Plain English by Common Craft. They're also quite amusing. Click To Play Wikis in Plain English by Common Craft.

Now that I’ve finally switched my RSS reader from Bloglines to Google Reader, I find myself there a lot more–even more so than Twitter (gasp). Also–if you’re in love with your Google Reader like me, here’s my public profile. Thus, let’s get on with the show. Social Change. Social Marketing.

In fact, much of the advice here will be pretty basic, as I find that even many brilliant leaders in the social sector know little about RSS , blogs as communications tools for nonprofits , or all that Google can do for them! those who work hard every day to make positive change. won't pretend to be definitive or even authoritative.

This list assumes that you’ve set up Google and Yahoo Alerts and are looking for the next step. Social Mention - searches across a variety of social media sources , including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube. You can also set up RSS feeds and email alerts. Yahoo Pipes.

What to listen for and best free listening tools : 1) Google Alerts and RSS feeds (searches blogs, websites) for keywords (org name and URL, issues, leadership names, competitive/colleague org names); 2) Twitter search. These conversations were always happening but you couldn't hear them. Now you can. Subscribe today.

Switch to an RSS feed reader like Google Reader and you can subscribe to this blog and others, without clogging your inbox. I’ll be answering questions live from 1:00 - 1:30 pm Eastern time today. Are you reading this in your email box?

I'm finishing up Inbound Marketing | Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs by the fabulous folks at HubSpot. The thesis of the book is that it's far more effective to acquire new donors, members and advocates by getting them to come to you (via Google, social media and blogs) vs. This photo is by churl on Flickr. Cheers!

Switch to an RSS feed reader like Google Reader and you can subscribe to this blog and others, without clogging your inbox. I did a quick review of my traffic stats for this blog and here are the top ten most visited posts, ending with the most popular: If Social Networking Isn’t Marketing, Why Bother? Is Web 2.0 Happy New Year!

Switch to an RSS feed reader like Google Reader and you can subscribe to this blog and others, without clogging your inbox. The latest edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is now available at The Feed by The Hatcher Group. Have some you’d like share? Write a post on your blog and submit it to the Carnival.