Free email and collaboration tools for your school

Google provides free email and collaboration tools for schools

Here is yet another resource from Peter Grandstaff's blog, "8 Amazing eResources That Are Free For Non-Profits." I encourage you to read the full bloghere.

Google Apps Education Version - Web-based Mail & Collaboration Application Suite

Google Apps Education Edition is a set of web-based applications and services that runs on Google’s servers but using your domain name. You can outsource your email & office applications, use instant messaging, host video, and collaborate. The Education Edition includes some extra features and is also free for non-profit organizations.

You can use Google Apps with any domain, but the Education Edition has some extra features that could benefit larger organizations. If you use DreamHost for your hosting you’ll be able to install Google Apps when you set up a new domain in the control panel.

Read about the other resources here:
http://www.petergrandstaff.com/marketing/8-amazing-eresources-that-are-free-for-non-profits

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Free Advertising for Nonprofits

Google Grants Free Advertising for Nonprofits

Here is another resource from Peter Grandstaff's blog, "8 Amazing eResources That Are Free For Non-Profits." I encourage you to read the full bloghere.

Google Grants - Free Advertising
This might be the highest value item on this list. It’s also the most exclusive. Non-profit organizations meeting Google’s eligibility requirements may may apply for a grant to receive up to $10,000 of free Adwords advertising per month. Yes, that’s Ten Thousand dollars worth of advertising free for non- profits!

Adwords is Google’s advertising program. You bid on keywords to have your ads appear alongside search results for those keywords. It’s pay-per-click advertising, which means you only pay when someone clicks on your ad. In addition to targeting keywords you can exclude keywords or target your campaigns to specific geographic areas. Adwords is an effective way to advertise any size website.

Google Grants is not open to everyone, but most community organizations and advocacy groups should be eligible to apply. They also expect you to make use of the free account and may terminate it if you let it go dormant.

Learn more here:
http://www.google.com/grants/details.html

Read about the other resources here:
http://www.petergrandstaff.com/marketing/8-amazing-eresources-that-are-free-for-non-profits

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Free Website Statistics and Analysis

Google Offers Free Website Statistics and Analysis

Here is another resource from Peter Grandstaff's blog, "8 Amazing eResources That Are Free For Non-Profits."

Google Analytics is a versatile and powerful website traffic analysis package that is free for anyone. That is, unless you get 5 million page views per month, then it’s free if you are an Adwords customer. Of course if you’re getting that many page views then you’re already using Adwords.

When you sign up you’ll get a snippet of code to put at the bottom of all your website’s pages. Once you’ve added it all you need to do is log into Google’s site and you’ll have access to a dizzying number of metrics for your site’s traffic and useage. There’s nothing more useful when you need to propose new funding or projects to your board (or your boss) than hard numbers, and Google Analytics will give you just that. It even creates custom graphs and lets you download everything in PDF format! You can also grant access to the data to other users so your whole team can stay up to date.

View Peter's original article, with all of the other resources, here:
http://www.petergrandstaff.com/marketing/8-amazing-eresources-that-are-free-for-non-profits

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Too Many Social Networks, Not Enough Time

Oh God, not another social networking site...

From TechCrunch.com:

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Yahoo and now Google. What does these have in common? If you’re reading this blog, you probably have a profile on all of them. And those are just the obvious ones, you probably have a bunch of other profiles on a series of other networks too. The situation has become untenable.

I agree. Yet I am complicit... the article convinced me to add yet another profile to the mix:
http://www.google.com/profiles/greggjeremy
Lord, please send us an aggregator site before all sleep is stolen for social networking...

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Google Turncoats Take on their Former Master

Some upstart Former Googleers have unveiled Cuil, a new search engine to take on the beast that once gave them bread.

Strangely enough, you can learn more at Yahoo of all places...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/wr_nm/internet_search_dc

A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.

Cuil Inc (pronounced "cool") is offering a new search service at http://www.cuil.com that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.

The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.

"Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user," Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

Easy ways to get more "Google Juice"

Thanks to Matt Cutts for this great video with a Google Engineer, "Free search engine optimization tips for beginners":

BLOG = Better Listing On Google

Blogger Buster: explains how blogs can provide you with a "Better Listing On Googgle."



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