Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

and referring to a post last Friday by Sean at Tactical Philanthropy breaking the news that Twitter had added charities to its list of suggested users. So, this sent me over to my new typepad metrics dashboard to see what the impact might be. I came across this tweet from @socialcitizen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I'm not referring to comment spam , either. TypePad AntiSpam: A Better Way to Handle Spam. Most blogging software can accommodate whatever you decide. And, it will usually take a way to build up to a point where it more efficient to moderate than leave open and delete. Again, your blogging platform will have this feature.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. SEO experts and spammers got so good at utilizing meta tags to manipulate search engine results that Google and others have now changed their search “spiders” to look for keywords in page titles, not meta tags.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

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! You'll want to see how many folks read your blog and where they are referred from so that you can thank the site that is referring them. Set up a blog hosting account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

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! FeedBurner has recently partnered to offers customizable widgets for your feed. It's one click!

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