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Welcome to Beth’s Blog for the Next Decade

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the stats in Typepad, my blog has had: 1206701: Lifetime Pageviews. A year later, I launched my first professional blog on the software that eventually became Google’s blogger. In April, 2003, I started blogging on my [link] in April, 2003 soon after Six Apart launched its TypePad hosting service.

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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Another topic that is of interest and can serve as a valuable launch pad for conversations and information, both for Romanian NGOs and organizations around the world, is a blog. A blog can provide the space for sharing news, announcements, stories, and other information and let you reshare and distribute it all over the web.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

We can measure how many people are reading the blog and sharing the information across the web. Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. In this example, we are using a blog.

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Laura Quinn: Founder and Director of Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We provide candid information to allow nonprofits to choose the software that will make them most effective. For an organization doesn't have skill in HTML and other technical stuff, TypePad and WordPress.com (the hosted version) are likely a good fit. a Consumer Reports for nonprofit software, if you will.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Google Media = Nonprofit Grants, Blogs, Video and Maps Galore

Connection Cafe

Blogger, which turns 10 this year, was covered in depth, and I have to admit, I was quite impressed with the features and functionality it offers that I was totally unaware of. As you can see, a ton of great information was shared from the Google team with educational info, helpful tips and even a few success stories thrown in.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information. My first blog was on a colleague's movetable type server in 2000 and when typepad launched in 2003?, In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space.