Google has a service called Alerts that will monitor News, Blogs, Web, Videos, Groups, or aggregate of all five.

When you set up an alert, you choose terms to follow, what you want to monitor, the frequency at which you wish to receive the alert, and enter an email address to send the alert to.

When your terms and the type of post you are monitoring is discovered by the service, an alert is sent to the email address you've assigned to the alert.

Nonprofits (and others) can use the Alerts to:

On August 6, 2004 I began blogging on blogger. On October 31, 2006 I began using this site. On April 18, 2007 I ceased using my Blogger account. I had been cross-posting between this site and Blogger using Qumana. Requirements from Google had changed for posting using a tool like Qumana and had become tired of maintaining both sites. The blogger site became fallow and wasn't used. Occasionally there was a comment or two on old posts and for whatever reason get traffic--not a lot, but some.

I'm always looking for ways to effectively monetize my site. Adsense hasn't been too terribly successful for me and I suspect--with advice from my brother--that a big part has been placement. I have been placing Adsense ads in the right column, a little too low and in the footer.

Placing Adsense ads in the left and right columns and the footer in Drupal is easy. You can come up with the code in your Adsense account and then create a block with that information in it. No brainer.

Placing ads in nodes is another thing altogether. You could manually place an ad every time, but that does not seem like an effective way of placing ads.