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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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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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This week is National Volunteer Week ! Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Lauren Hasey Maher, Program Manager, National Center for Family Philanthropy. Veda Banerjee, Director of Communications, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger.

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Member Appreciation Month Recap, Prizes, and Our #ntenthanks!

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Jason Townsend , Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds , scored a 1-month subscription to Foundation Directory Online from The Foundation Center. Congratulations to the winner, Jolene Hennessy , National MS Society ! Joann Buckley Collins , Event 360 , snagged a Higher Logic rotatable mobile charger and flashlight.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

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. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. Flickr Photo by Mburpee. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Fulton’s talk was timely.

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Back to Blogging with a Roundup of Terrific Articles

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My eyes may be bloodshot, but the sight of the blogger interface still warms my heart. I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve—twin poles of our political mind—were easily and naturally united. Back to the land of the blogging! Give yourself a long afternoon and read it.

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