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Find the Top Nonprofit News

I recently discoverd Alltop.com's nonprofit section and it's huge list of popular nonprofit blogs (including the Idealist blog!) and thought it would be fun to find the most interesting stories from those feeds and make a new rss feed with those entries.

So I went through each nonprofit blog on Alltop and collected most of the rss feeds (though not all, some of the rss links were dead). I then imported that list of feeds into PostRank, which looks at statistical information related to each story, like comments made on a post, popularity of the website, how many times a story has been Dugg, and using that info, a rank between 1 and 10 is given to each blog post.

I decided that I only wanted to see stories with a high PostRank score, around 8 - 10 and was given a new rss feed combining all the high rated stories from these different nonprofit blogs.

I imported that combined rss feed into Feedburner, which allows me to keep track of how many people are checking out the feed as well as add new features to the feed that aren't normally included, e.g., FeedFlares, which let people share a story on Digg or Reddit or email it to a friend.

Below you'll find the consolidated feed of relevant and popular updated nonprofit news from 40+ websites. Check it out!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/nonprofitnews

Posted by Scott S. You can also check out his previous post, Idealist.org on LinkedIn.