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Difference Between Pitching Mainstream Bloggers and Mainstream Press from Chris Brogan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He talks about what motivates bloggers and how we're different from mainstream press. My favorite: Bloggers Like Free Prize Inside Experiences. handled well, and other times handled a bit weirdly). handled well, and other times handled a bit weirdly). Photo from Chris Brogan Chris Brogan does it again. And if it???s

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23 Years Ago Today and How Not To Pitch A Blogger Redux (And Twitter pitches too)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year.

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Google + for Nonprofits: Invest Time or Not? Nonprofit Starter Steps

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Should your nonprofit do more than simply set up a presence on Google + and not invest any more time? What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? Debra Askanase Blogger and trainer who share useful tips about Google + (and other platforms too!).

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Another Cambodian Video Blogger. Yeah!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. Vuthasurf left me a comment that he created a video clip, uploaded to blip.tv, but was having trouble getting the video to display in his word press blog. Any other video bloggers want to offer some advice?

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22 Years Ago Today and Some Advice About How Not to Pitch Bloggers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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Successful Social Media Content Strategy Is A Continuous Improvement for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

<iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uK3un3Wt_Qo” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Co-Schedule is a word press plugin (and now can be used even if you don’t use a word press blog) that puts all the steps into one dashboard. . <iframe

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Could John Wayne be the world’s most effective philanthropist?

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. Beyond just having a vision, Grit is about having the motivation to overcome obstacles and the persistence and zeal to do so time and time again in pursuit of that vision.