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How Do You Find the Latest Nonprofit News?

Vote-to-promote services like Digg and Reddit are great at drawing attention to obscure websites, breaking stories and big-time news; even lolcats and shoe throwers get a fair shake at hitting the front page. But if you're looking for nonprofit news, you'll be hard pressed to find any headlines at the tops of these sites.


By Flickr user aloshbennett I was thinking about my last entry, Finding the Top Nonprofit News, and remembered Beth Kanter's post asking if there should be a nonprofit Digg category. After looking around, I found a sparsely populated nonprofit sub-Reddit. Joe Solomon from Social Actions pointed me toward Swarmin.com, a site that promotes "collective action online" via the Reddit model.

At the moment there isn't anything as popular as Digg to find and promote aggregated nonprofit news. How do you find the latest in all things nonprofit?

Alltop's nonprofit section is a good place to start and searching the nonprofit room on FriendFeed or the #nptech group on Twitter will bring up interesting conversations. But until Digg adds a nonprofit category or some enterprising individual builds a vote-to-promote service (hint: Reddit code and Pligg) we're left to our own devices.


Posted by Scott S. You can also check out his previous post, Find the Top Nonprofit News.