Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 5, 2009

Livingston Communications has launched a new ranked list of cause-related blogs called List of Change. If you are using your blog for social impact, you can submit your site to be included on the List by filling out this form. The List of Change by Beth Kanter on Beth's Blog. inbound links.

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JUNE 23, 2007

Brian Kelly, whose blog feed I've added to my "Circle of the Wise" feed folder, has a section on his blog called ' Experiments. Claim your Blog??? in Technorati. Reasons For Experiment To explore ways in which a new blog can be found. In my workshop, I cover Web2.0 But, what the heck does that mean?

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

I just discovered that one of my blog colleagues in Australia, Seb Chan, is writing about a topic of mutual interest - social media metrics (my blog ramblings here and my wiki/presentations here ). I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 4, 2014

Image courtesy of Technorati. It’s not the time when you submitted the tweet, blog post, or Facebook share. The post 6 Hashtag Mistakes Your Nonprofit Is Probably Making appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Social Media can be a fickle beast. So what gives? It’s not your content.

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Image courtesy of Technorati. The post Attract Tech Volunteers To Your Nonprofit With These 5 Tips appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. We all know nonprofits don’t have a huge budget for a full IT support staff, but some nonprofits look for volunteers to help keep the technology cranking.

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MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). Cost (what!). Some pr professionals agree.

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2008

These days everyone is blogging, from high school kids and mommies, to large corporations and industry leaders. Nonprofit organizations are no exception, and delivering news and stories through a blogging platform is an interactive and efficient way of connecting with your audience. Technorati Tags: nptech. blogging.

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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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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 31, 2006

I'm sharing five "new to me" blogs that I discovered this year. Thirteen Peny Picayne - Is the personal blog of Andy Fluke from NCDD who I met last month and has the chance to live blog the NCDD gathering in San Francisco earlier this month. A Fine Blog - Allison Fine's blog. I love Lucy! Go sign up!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2006

I came across a post from Kevin Lim who writes about social technology and recently posted some information from his Intro to Blogs Workshop. His focus not on the writing process, but the importance of reading blogs and knowing what's going on out there. and Dave Pollard's " The Blogging Process.".

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JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. into my efforts to publish a professional blog." I realize now that I didn't adopt all those things all once!

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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Did you just start blogging and are wondering how to get more readers? I get asked about this a lot so I thought I'd share some advice that I sent to my friend Wendy, who just started a blog about homeschooling called, Playing Hooky (where this photo is from). Read other blogs about your topic. Do both searches. Write regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

Today I discovered an interesting blog named ScoutSeven Blog Land. Hat tip to the good folks on netsquared where I discovered this blog. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech " The founder is Leda Dederich whose expertise is technology for grassroots organizing. What caught my eye was a post on chocolate bribes.

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JANUARY 2, 2006

From Deaf Blogs comes the first official proper vlog post. Technorati Tags: nptech , blogaccessibility , net2

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FEBRUARY 24, 2006

That we will address during the session on Nonprofit Blogging at the NTC Conference in Seattle next month. Your nonprofit should consider a blog if. You want to enable many s Your nonprofit shouldn't consider a blog if. If your organization is not ready for some changes in how you work - blogs tend to stimulate some change.

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JANUARY 20, 2006

Britt Bravo over at Netsquared found an excellent post via the net2 tag entitled " Why Nonprofits Should Blog." " As much as I'm a blogging evangelist, one of things we should respect is that blogging may not be an appropriate strategy for all nonprofits. Technorati Tags: nten , nptech , net2

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Amy Sample Ward

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

How did I discover this new blog? Britt Bravo at Netsquared posted on the community blog about museums and podcasting. So what are you waiting for - set up your community blog at netsquared.org and connect with nonprofits interested in the new web technology. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , art_museums , museums , podcasting

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JULY 17, 2005

Want to find a good collection of posts and articles on nonprofit blogging? Want to add your own great posts on nonprofit blogging? Simply tag with nptech and blogging. Technorati Tags: nptech blogging. Check it out. nonprofit

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? tags: blogging nptech ).     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.    Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success. 

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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. Anyway, he provides a list of influencers of the blogosphere.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

Perhaps I wasn't ready to explore it until I found myself trying to maintain three personal blogs and contribute to three group blogs. Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. And then save to your blog software as a draft or publish. Technorati Tags: nptech firefox

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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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MAY 25, 2007

I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. So, our live blogging assignment is also an important reporting task because conference participants may need to refer to these notes to cast their votes. Many people live blog to take notes.

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OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). Technorati Tags: digital_divide , blogging_communities , net2 , nptech

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JUNE 27, 2006

I'm live blogging from the Games for Change Conference in NYC. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c All the usual disclaimers related to typos, etc. My train from Boston was late, so I'm little late getting here. Still doing setting the context. Still trying to get bearings here and some coffee. More later. The delicious tag stream is here.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Carie Lewis, HSUS Social Networking Maven I just discovered that Carie Lewis of HSUS has a blog ! Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Better yet, she shared her listening techniques. She uses Igoogle which is a really easy, simple way to set up a dashboard.

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AUGUST 17, 2005

Jillaine Smith has created a blog and I added her to my blogroll. Technorati Tags: nptech According to her email: "I'll be sharing current thoughts and resources relevant to the intersection of strategic planning, Internet communications, leadership development and organizational effectiveness." " Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

We shouldn't just promote the use of blogs to nonprofits, but a total internet communication strategy -- talk about all the stuff, podcasting, wikis, and encourage use of a coordinated strategy. Let's not encourage nonprofits to "set up a blog, it's easy." Blogging takes a commitment. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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JUNE 22, 2005

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 At the end, you can also compare your answers to those who have answered the survey.

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