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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. Blogs were most often written in first-person, more than 1,000 words, and many nonprofit blogs of the past embraced the concept that a blog post had to be published daily for the blogger to be taken seriously. 9) Publish numbered lists.

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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs. Perhaps the most important factor in setting your budget is that you want to generate enough data to decide if the financial return from running ads is worthwhile.

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Blogger creates trouble!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Carl started off with a spirited advocacy for the power of entrepreneurship, touching on the vision of Ewing Kauffman, the founder of his foundation. After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale. Carl's foundation is the foundation for entrepreneurship.

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Facebook: Is it Worth your Nonprofit’s Time?

NetWits

Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. Facebook Boosts Organizations Web Traffic, Advocacy, and Email Lists. She is also the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2’s Frogloop blog.

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Giving Away Four Free Passes To Millennial Donor Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. This study provided the necessary understanding of how the generation gives and engages with nonprofit organizations. The description.

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. Please do not run out and start using Upworthy like subject lines on your online advocacy and fundraising appeals. And what does this trend mean for nonprofits?

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Great reads from around the web on April 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

The next generation of movement leaders is overcoming its fetish with technology and expertise as secrets to online success. If you want to use it for a commercial production, that's okay: they have an easy license for that as well ("with any money that's generated being given to the humane society.").

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