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Welcome to Beth’s Blog for the Next Decade

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the stats in Typepad, my blog has had: 1206701: Lifetime Pageviews. 7641: Total Comments. A year later, I launched my first professional blog on the software that eventually became Google’s blogger. 3129: Total Posts. I wrote about nonprofits, technology, and training. I had a couple of false starts.

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Trying to Hack the TypePad Templates is difficult.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anyone a whiz at troubleshooting typepad advanced templates? " link next to the permalink/comments at the end of each post. You have to hack the typepad templates. And, after some back and forth with Typepad Support person named Carla, I was able to learn how to edit the advanced templates. Can someone help me?

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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue. And no, the possibility of getting a “bad&# comment is not enough to disable the option for people to share their ideas, support and encouragement. MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. Setting up Google Alerts for the blog address and title will help you catch whenever other bloggers or organizations mention the blog on their sites.

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Screencast: Call for Blog Actors!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Commenting. So, if you work in the nonprofit sector or nonprofit technology sector and have a blog that uses any of the above widgets or even ones I have mentioned and want to be featured in my next screencast, please leave a comment here. I'm particulary interested in typepad widgets, but blogger, wordpress, and others are okay.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Can A Blogging Work Flow Tool Help Me Be More Productive?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. will save you time and increase traffic.

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