Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2007

There are a lot of answers to that question, but if you want to do outreach to bloggers about an issue you care about, here are a few tips: 1. Search for bloggers who write about topics related to your cause on Technorati , Google Blog Search and Ask.com's blog search engine. Read blogs. Search del.icio.us

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

It includes a new " White House Blog ", and the first posting shows some smart thinking about how a government entity can use a blog. We think there is going to be an increase in interest in effective use of blogs for the government sector, so here are a few quick impressions of what is effective in this first blog post: * Personal: ?I'm

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Guest blog posts. How to lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

There is a range of experience in the room in terms of live blogging. Live Blogging Tips. Use word and cut and paste into your blog - for spell check and abbreviations. Ecto is a great tool for live blogging. Live blogging is easier if you're drinking, next year we will have live blogger hip flasks.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. About Net2 Think Tank.

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OCTOBER 19, 2005

After the second thread , Steve wrote an incredible post about blog community facilitation learning. I asked him some questions about connections between offline/online communities and how to encourage non-bloggers into a blogging community. His response: Steve answered my questions both in a comment and back over at his blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy? Be Responsible.

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AUGUST 8, 2005

Mary Hodder's post Link Love Lost or How Social Gestures within Topic Groups are More Interesting Than Link Counts comes directly out of the discussion at blogher at the Technorati 100. Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2005

From Sifry's Alerts , Technorati tracked its 10 Millionth Blog (a chinese glassblower). What I wonder, what percentage of the blogs are active? I would have never guessed when I started Technorati in November 2002. I would have never guessed when I started Technorati in November 2002.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

Via the Berkman Bloggers list, Cameron Marlow at MIT is working on some social research about weblogs. The survey asks about demographics and blog reading/writing habits. In addition, it has a section where you are asked to type in your blog url and it generates a random list of urls from your posts. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. Over the past year, I've done a lot of live blogging which is basically taking notes at lectures, conferences, and presentations of what was said. Perhaps it may be helpful to others who have not live blogged before. What live blogging tips do you have?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

Meet Anina.net who is a fashion blogger from Paris. She live blogged me while I lived blogged her. Not many folks in the fashion world are blogging. No one knows about blogging. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon I used a pen and reporters pad. She used her nokia phone. I must learn how to do that!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

My friend Abby, the Executive Director of the school gardening nonprofit, Urban Sprouts , has taken the plunge and started an Urban Sprouts blog. If there are any readers out there who want to start a blog for themselves, here are my basic, "accidental techie" guidelines. The best blogs are ones with a particular focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. How can BLOG (technology) help to make the situation better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

Beyond The Blog: Ready For Prime Time Originally uploaded by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006. From one of my favorite edtech blogger, Alan Levine (fellow lab lover) comes this Flickrtation - using flickr for a presentation. You are especially invited to speak up via comments, blog our photos, and add annotations via flickr notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

"Blogs are not causing a revolution. Blog are just another Internet communication strategy and tool!" " Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. Are blogs a vanishing fad? February, 2006.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

Well, I've moved my blog to blogger! But a bit of reading convinced me that our blog would have far better visibility in one of the standard blogging sites that build RSS feeds, support tagging, are indexed by Technorati and other services, and in general are a full part of the hum of internet conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Don't feel like you have to read every post on every blog, use the "Mark Read" option. Technorati. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Technorati. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 There were more than enough t-shirts for the Cambodian bloggers (probably enough for some bloggers to get more than one). YouthNoise?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Last year, Sarah Bunting, who writes the blog Tomato Nation , a culture and humor blog, offered to shave her head if her blog readers donated to DonorsChoose.org , a site that allows donors to purchase school supplies for needy classrooms. More than a hundred bloggers have joined and the competition is heating up, but it???s

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit starts tommorrow and if it weren't school vacation week, I'd be there live blogging it. And, if it wasn't school vacation week, I'd attempt to remote live blog it. Oh, expect lighter blogging this week - it's school vacation week. I hope you'll all do the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). Photo by I Timmy. Your organization and social media goal/strategy? What happened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

If you're interested in nonprofits and blogging and podcasting , drop everything and go read Brian C. The presentation is excellent -- I like how they defined blogs and gave many examples -- I just combed through the blog definition and selected a few below, but the presentation is well worth reading through the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

I'm hoping that we'll end the discussion with a kick-a** tip sheet for video bloggers who want to get started promoting their blogs and shows. Tag your video blog post into del.icio.us - forward to your del.icio.us. Screenshot in flickr with url to blog post or videoblog post. posted to blog, ping technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. His organization is excited about the potential for Cambodian blogs to generate more political dialogue. His english language blog can be found here. He recently started a " Khlog " or Khmer Language blog. I am Cambodian.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Chris Brogan, one of my favorite bloggers, has started a project called The Social Media 100 where he has pledged to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for business, organization, or personal interests. re in software, subscribe to an art or marketing blog.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. Within eight months pages views doubled (from 8,000 to 16,000), email list doubled (2,500 to 5,000) and they have established relationships with influential 'mommy bloggers' across the country who are representing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dina Mehta , a blogger from Indian and fabulous person. She posted this about the Menu for Hope , a little fundraiser by food blogger, to help people affected by the earthquake in Northern India and Pakistan. I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. for his blog. Do you follow your blog's technorati? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

I only knew a handful of blogher participants, so I was delighted to see fellow Berkman Thursday night blogger , Lisa Williams. Her presentation on audio blogging was fantastic! Here is Lisa's opml blog with blogher coverage , including her presentation. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). A blog may be a place to start. WordPress , Blogger ) Podcast (i.e. What skills do I have? Are you a natural writer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated. Tell us about your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

My colleague Mary Joyce who writes a blog called " ZapBoom: The Sound That Change Makes " that focuses on the question, "Under what conditions does citizen activism occur and how can it be supported and encouraged?" Post it on your blog: [link] =-017xCZEXFU&eurl=. Re-publish Monem's posts on your own blog.

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