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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Not sure what to write for your nonprofit blog? Continue reading to learn how to determine what type of posts you should write, how long your post should be, how to edit your own work, strategies for getting past the dreaded writer’s block when writing your blog, and more. Find topics for your blog Make your blog work for you.

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Herding Cats, er, Bloggers

Connection Cafe

At Convio Summit last year (that’s right, 2011 is already “last year”) I was asked for tips on managing a blog team. In fact, sometimes the marketing team not so secretly refers to blog team management as “herding cats.” The Blogger Alias. I may manage the blog, but they provide the smarts.

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Blogging to Support Policy Goals: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections. Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting.

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23 Years Ago Today and How Not To Pitch A Blogger Redux (And Twitter pitches too)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. This morning I got a pitch a from someone who wanted me to blog about one of their programs. Even worse, hadn't made the attempt to comment on my blog or refer to any posts.

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3 Reasons Why Pinterest Is Still Relevant for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. People save pins as they would on a real bulletin board – to refer to later for inspiration. You can check out her website at: jcsocialmarketing.com/blog. What you pin reflects who you want to be.

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Time Management for Nonprofit Techies (and Bloggers)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I thought of that cartoon today as I read Chris Brogan's brilliant post " Scaling Yourself " which seems to be resonating with bloggers and micro-bloggers including me. He references the How To Say No podcast that gives you a method for saying no. Chris reflects and shares some tips. Go read it.

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Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff: Bake Bread, Give Dough

Have Fun - Do Good

Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Tag/invite five other bloggers to join the campaign.

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