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Blogging for Writers

Have Fun - Do Good

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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How to Start Your Basic Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

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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The Discoverability Trail of a Bloggish Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started this blogging thing on an impulsive whim in 2002 after Jon Stahl gave me a moveable type blog on his server because I couldn't set it up on my own (it was pre-typepad). When you read a reference to another post, take the time to click on the links and follow the Discoverability Trail of the Conversation. Context is important.

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Five Reasons Why Nonprofits Who Utilize Social Media Should Also Blog

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. There are currently 133 million blogs worldwide. This was a real opener to me. 4) To build community around your mission.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. milllion blogs.

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now, they may not be calling it a widget, some refer to as "badges." I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the blogging platform, so adding a widget is even easier than cut and paste! " Widgetbox For bloggers like me, Widgetbox offers a Widget panel. It's one click!

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Now, they may not be calling it a widget, some refer to as "badges." I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Act 1: What.