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

Amy Sample Ward

Most of the time, if someone has something bad to say, other community members will step up to right the remark before you even have a chance! Before you jump in the car and hit the open road, you want to take the time to plan where you’ll go, and what you need. Multimedia Storytelling. Think blogs are boring? MoveableType.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

It’s soft and maliable and relative, pretty much all of the time. You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate.

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Laura Quinn: Founder and Director of Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. TypePad is in fact the only good choice if you want to really tailor the colors and add your logo but don't have HTML experience. I'm currently donating the vast majority of my time.

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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. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Can A Blogging Work Flow Tool Help Me Be More Productive?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

will save you time and increase traffic. It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad. Bringing traffic and saving time were attractive enough lures to get me to install it. That way I can really understand if this tool would help me save time or bring traffic. thanks everyone!).

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Blogging for Writers

Have Fun - Do Good

Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Internet connection is very slow that I am on and typepad won't load. I was greeted at the airport by members of the clogger team, Virak and "Trajoke" and presented with a Cambodian Bloggers Summit t-shirt! My blogger friends were very excited and recognized the names of the companies and they were like rock star fans!

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