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Blogging for Writers

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WorldChanging Book: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century You can find more blogs using blog search engines: Google Blog Search Technorati You can read blogs in a feed reader like: Bloglines Rojo Google Reader Create your own blog with one of these “platforms”: Blogger Wordpress.com Wordpress.org Typepad Movable Type Your blog readers (..)

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How to Start Your Basic Blog

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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! Allow comments and make your pages findable by search engines. Let blog search engines know when you update your blog. I use Blogger , because it is free!

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Five Reasons Why Nonprofits Who Utilize Social Media Should Also Blog

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2) To improve your search engine results. have all changed the way they search the Web to archive and list Web pages in their search engines. Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. In recent years Google, Bing, Ask.com, etc.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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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." Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well.

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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

On the other hand, many blogs end up being positioned higher in search engine searches, so there must be some blogs that are being discovered via the browser and not a reader. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. Now, they may not be calling it a widget, some refer to as "badges."

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. around 80% of the hits are coming from search. Search drives visitor behavior. It's around.

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