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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

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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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Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers

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Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place recently in Seattle. Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers – guest post by Aaron Dorfman, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. I sure hope so.

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Want to scale through advocacy? Photo by Tsmall. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks

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Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. They wanted to visualize their network for a specific purpose: getting a national bill ( Moving Children Outdoors Act) on Obama’s desk for signature by Oct. They reorganized the map into clusters.

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Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned

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They are experts in using social media as part of their multi-channel advocacy campaigns. For example, NPR saw her post on the MomsRising blog and did a long interview with Dawn about her experience of sharing her health care story with the President that aired across the nation on Election Day. You’ll learn lots.

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Guest Post by Cheryl Contee: I Am Mommy, Hear Me Roar

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I just got back from BlogHer , the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. It's the 5th year of the conference and has grown from a scrappy, homegrown, volunteer effort to a nationally renowned, corporate-sponsored conference. I was there because 46% of mommy bloggers have contributed to a cause or a political campaign.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Flickr Photo by Helokee. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.