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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. Blogs were most often written in first-person, more than 1,000 words, and many nonprofit blogs of the past embraced the concept that a blog post had to be published daily for the blogger to be taken seriously.

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How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Share your map with other groups doing the exercise.

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Six Steps to Plan a Multichannel Fundraising Campaign

Care2

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. Sometimes it helps to crystallize your campaign goals by doing a simple exercise.

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Meet A Cambodian BlogHer: Sopheap Chak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She is the Advocacy and Public Relation Officer for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. She is also a terrific live blogger! I am grateful for her detailed notes from the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. So, I want to use my blog to exercise my right to freedom of expression or otherwise we are self-censoring.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Engagement Strategie s.

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NPTechersphere is Talking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people. My full review is coming soon.)

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was very impressed with the way this group did the small group exercise in the social media game They were able to adapt it to their own programs. Participants were hoping to use social media for a variety of objectives - including online advocacy, recruit volunteers, and fundraising.

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