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Get started with Twitter

The best contacts and resources to help you get it done.

Link: Guide to Twitter for Business

10 Steps to Being Found on Search Engines

Does your organization show up on the first page of results in search engines like Google or Yahoo? The content and structure of your website can have a dramatic effect on how easily potential constituents can find you via search engines. This article explains how.

Link: 10 Steps to Being Found on Search Engines

Check out Idealware’s great “Consumer-Reports-style” articles on databases, websites, email and advocacy, and office productivity. They also offer for a very reasonable price online seminars on how to select software for your organization.

What do words mean on your site?

Words matter. They always have. They always will. On the Web, words matter even more. The right words.

…If you want to design a new website, the first thing you should decide on is the words. Not the graphical design, not the software. No. The words must come first. Once you get the words right, you are half-way there.

Link: Your website: Just words?

17 tips for getting bloggers to write about you

One of the best ways to get publicity and generate buzz is to get bloggers to write about what you’re doing. Boing Boing co-author Cory Doctorow provides some tips on making it easy for bloggers to point to you.

Link: 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You