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Why Google Apps are right for Non-Profits and NGO’s

Subsequent having been webhost for many NGO‘s and non-profits I am know very well the struggle with members and their emails accounts. It just seems to be the never ending story. No matter how good instructions you make for the users there are consistently few of them that either do not follow or read the instructions and you end up spending your time trying to solve their quandaries.

Why Google Apps are right for Non-Profits and NGO’s

Make your NGO – Non-profit site more sociable

Working with wordpress makes it very easy to make your website more sociable. Here is list with the best sociable plugins availible today for wordpress.

  1. Digg This – Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.When a digg is first recognized an email is sent to the site’s admin and the button appears on the site.
  2. ShareThis – Is very known sharing service with its green ShareThis icon put to your blog. People can quickly submit your articles to the most popular social sites or just email them to their friends.
  3. Sociable– Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. You can design the css, images and decide wich social networks you link to.
  4. LifeStream –Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog. Out of the box, Lifestream is just streams in RSS/Atom feeds and prettying them up, but deep down it’s a very flexible platform allowing developers to integrate any kind of activity they desire..
  5. Meet Your Commenters – When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network. You will be able to know the profiles of your visitors in social networks like flickr, twitter, facebook,….
  6. SocialBoaster – fun little script that’ll aggregate your Digg, Twitter and Del.icio.us activity and post it to your WordPress blog. It uses the WordPress cron system and can be configured to search for updates by the hour or on a daily basis. SocialBoaster works by grabbing the contents of your Twitter Tweets, and Digg/Del.icio.us bookmarks and creating posts for them on your blog. SocialBoaster is designed to be unobstrusive. As such, each post SocialBoaster makes will be given a metadata value in order to make SocialBoaster posts easily distinguishable from regular blog posts.
  7. DandyID Services – DandyID is a free service that enables you to connect, manage, and share all of your online identities from a single location. With approximately 330 social networks supported, the DandyID Services plugin is one of the most extensive available.
  8. TweetMe is a simple WordPress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post. You decide what actually gets posted to your Twitter feed. The link to the post is shortened to around 18 characters using the bit.ly service.
  9. Twittertools – A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins for NGO’s and Non-profits

We have already suggested that you should consider WordPress as CMS system for your NGO or Non-profit organization.  The wordpress core is still missing many things that can make your site look better and work better for your NGO or non-profit organization.  Here is list of plug-ins that you can use to adopt WordPress to your needs.

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Web hosts

One of the most important parts of website is the web host or web hosting service. For NGO or Non-profit where there are not many web specialist working and you have not the possibilities of struggle you need to select very well. This website is hosted here, we have been happy with hostgators service in the past, as they have supplied us with excellent real time backup. Fatcow is another excellent host that we can specially recommend. Both offer great control board and good service.

We suggest that you still spend the time and setup the email account at google apps, read more about it hereWhy Google Apps are right for Non-Profits and NGO’s

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