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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.

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Judi Sohn of the Colorectal Cancer Coalition: Blogging for Cancer Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition. I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. Her personal blog drives traffic to her organization's web site. " The organization also has an Advocacy blog. A blog can do this."

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Let The Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. What's that?

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

We’re having a 5K/bike ride/walk this weekend … it’s for a good cause” is not as newsworthy as “couple to marry while running in a 5K for breast cancer research, this is why…”. Get to know the alternative and “emerging” news outlets and most influential bloggers (known as “influencers”) in your area. Share these.

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

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Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization. Your organization needs a solid plan for finding and holding onto dedicated volunteers. Then we’ll give you the strategies you need to find volunteers who can truly make a difference to your organization’s work. What is volunteer recruitment? Request a Demo.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. . “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. They just didn’t have the resources. Co-Disruptor: AdoptAClassroom. Disruptor: Facebook.