July articles: Affordable Advocacy, Auctions, Simple CMSs

We've got our articles for July up - including *two* new Few Good Tools articles!

Alan Rosenblatt leads the charge with a great article on Affordable New Tools for Online Advocacy. He rounds up the new generation of tools that can help organizations, regardless of their budget, reach constituents, promote applicable content in social media tools, build community, and more.

Our first Few Good Tools article is on Tools to Manage Content for Simple Sites. This is a particular favorite of mine - it's always been a pet peeve that people seem to recommend complex open source software for even the tiniest sites. That just doesn't make sense to me - or our contributors! We've summarized a number of ways that nontechnical folks can create and/or update websites that we'd recommend instead.

And then there's our Few Good Online Auction Tools article, which gives some solid advice and online platforms for nonprofits looking into the online auction realm. It's a kind of strange marketplace, with only two main vendors (eBay and cMarket), but we compare those two and talk about other options as well.