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The Starting Line: Great Tips for Beginning a WordPress Blog

Byte Technology

It’s no great secret that blogging is big. At present it’s estimated that there are some 150 million active blogs operating at any given time. Unfortunately there are lots of reasons that some blogs don’t make the grade and wither and die. If someone comments on one of your posts, be sure to respond to them in a timely manner.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. But some comments on the whole phenomenon.

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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – eMarketer -.

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Going Viral: How to Get Your Social Media Voice into the Mainstream

Byte Technology

Of course, don’t just sign up for any old fan pages: choose those that relate directly to your service, product or cause, and give helpful comments on those pages often (at least once a week). And when you do comment, include links to similar pages as well as your own.

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Wordpress Extras: My Favorites

Amy Sample Ward

A recent comment from Ichi (working on social media for good in Japan w/ SocialCompany.org ) asked after the tools I was using on this blog to bring in comments via Twitter. Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " The Web Is Dead.

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