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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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How to Write Awesome Emails Your Donors Want to Read

Network for Good

Your donors, through no fault of their own, have inboxes that are constantly bogged down with messages from various organizations, businesses, stores, news outlets, and bloggers. Is it an appeal for donations? get donations to the Spring campaign”). Avoid sounding like spam. And so does everybody else. Distraction.

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Getting on The List

NetWits

Spam email from a stranger. Obviously bulk snail mail from a charity you donated to three years ago. New post by your favorite blogger, delivered via RSS. Three or four recommendations from trusted colleagues, each with the same link. A trending topic on Twitter. The latest on Reddit. Phone call from your mom.

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Tips for Disaster Relief Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. She steered away from using a PayPal button and worked only with donations of supplies and equipment. It took her 10 hours, by herself, to sort through all of the clothing donations that she received. They also set up a wiki.

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America's Giving Challenge Official Results: We Came In First! Thank You Everyone!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want to thank each and everyone of you who donated, asked their friends and network to donate, spread the word through blogging it or other ways, and helped us cross the finish line in first place! Cambodian Bloggers Want To Support Our Cause. Thanks to the Bloggers. Blogger's Campaign Update. Sina's Story.

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Tools to Make Your Holiday Email Campaign Easier

NonProfit Hub

She is a writer and blogger with a passion for self-improvement and helping others. Thirty-eight percent of people who donate to charity already say they are more likely to give during the holidays. Email Spam Test. Are you worried your emails are getting thrown into spam folders?

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When it was time for 09/09/09, I didn’t have to scramble to find RTers or bloggers; they were there. I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. What didn’t?

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