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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. Chatting with web strategy blogger Jon Udell about the challenges in his work to promote adoption by content producers and aggregators of the very valuable local community calendars. * Technorati Tag: TCamp09. It's ongoing today - Sunday - and you can follow it by viewing the (high volume!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Choosing Keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

" She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. In an email, Mary suggests taking these actions: As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day an Egyptian blogger, Abdel Monem Mahmoud , sits in jail, his only crime his desire for a more open Egyptian society.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Poetry Thursday is an online project that builds community by encouraging bloggers to read and enjoy poetry, as well as sharing it with others. Essay on corporate authenticity in More Space: Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business. Poetry Thursday (Looks like they are discontinuing this series).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

I use Blogger , because it is free! If I had known I would like blogging so much, I would have set up a Typepad account, because it has more features, but Blogger is just fine and it's a bargain! If you use Blogger, there are a couple settings you'll want use: In Archive Settings: click "Yes" in answer to "Enable Page Posts?"

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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

MAY 5, 2008

I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer? Next, do a social media scan of your non-profit and/or cause using Technorati or a Google blog search.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed. What is Earned Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Eric posted some excellent thoughts on the problem that Cambodian bloggers have to get past - podcasting without electricity. Also we've been using podcasts with some success on mnartists.org just by making and "audio only" feed in our existing RSS implementation. and the podcast feed is at: Radio mnartists Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. human aspects of technology. What do you blog about? How did you discover my blog?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Go to Technorati or Google Blog Search and put the name of your museum (or exhibit, or program, or.) run a Twitter feed. There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. Check yourself out in the blogosphere. in quotation marks and hit search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

feed), and tools that allow you to find other people and organizations who are working to solve the same issues you are working to solve. I found Blogger in January, 2000. Via a now defunct site, design site license, I stumbled on Blogger and was blown away. Technorati Tags: nptech, bloggerview, nonprofit, Is your ext337.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. It feeds into a variety of publications that I offer, some for free and some for sale. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). Technorati ???Authority??? " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). The best bit of information I found is from a Pew Internet and American Life Project Report titled "Bloggers: The Internet's Storytellers" from July, 2006. s URL or IP address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Some education technology bloggers, like Tony Karrer. I've used my Technorati rank [it has issues ] and just compared against myself for year before. If not, why? If yes, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. " Widgetbox For bloggers like me, Widgetbox offers a Widget panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" "A blogger's influence should not be measured by in-bound links (like technorati), but out-bound links. What rankings and influence?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

and digging out from a flood of emails, comments, unread posts in my reader, etc -- and it looks like I'm not the only blogger with insomia related to Katrina. This goes for photo bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers as well - there's no reason why this should be text-only. I'm baack from vacation. blog; you can do the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. With that said, I get complaints from some of my blog readers about the Technorati Search Widget, so I'm looking for suggestions. Act 1: What.

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