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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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A Huge Thanks To Guest Bloggers from the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. I’d like to thank the bloggers who posted such wonderful posts all week long!

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Shout out to Community of Practice leaders!

NTEN

This week is National Volunteer Week ! To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions.

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Netroots Nation Conference Highlights

Care2

Netroots Nation , one of the leading conferences for activists to gather and participate in 70 panels and 30 training training sessions, caucuses and strategy sessions wrapped up on Sunday and had some terrific take-aways. This was my first time at Netroots Nation, but definitely not my last. Participants from across the U.S.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

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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Three Must-Haves On Your Nonprofit’s Blog

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As I have said many times, I was a reluctant blogger. I did not think the Internet needed another blogger. My best guess as to why is only that the nonprofit blogger doesn’t know the basic HTML necessary to add links and images to their blog. National Wildlife Federation :: blog.nwf.org. But I was wrong.

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6 Steps to Get the Press to Tell Your Story

NonProfit Hub

Make friends with your local media: TV (don’t forget programs on local PBS stations), newspapers (both daily and weekly), and radio (a local station, affiliated with a national outlet can be a conduit to a national story). A story on the local NPR station could lead to a national spot. Tell a riveting story.

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