Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from. Well your website homepage already features a feed of the most recent posts on the blog, right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Here are five of the tips I most frequently give: 1. Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. Read blogs. Newsreaders are my top choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. What to do? Quit Facebook or other social media?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

One of their calls to action, is to be a "Blogger for Human Rights": If you are a blogger, you can use your bully pulpit to stand with the victims and activists to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane treatment in wartime, and campaign to bring offenders to justice. blogging human rights

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

She also has seven more tips you can check out. • Jake of Grant Writing Confidential also emphasizes the importance of storytelling , among other tips, in his post, How to Write a "Juicy" Nonprofit Blog - or a Blog of Any Kind. Nonprofit 2.0 Nonprofit 2.0 Leverage the inspiring acts to try to create more good acts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

TED Fellow profiles, social media tips , reporting back from events , calls to action ). Multiple staff members are bloggers , which takes the weight off of one person. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • It's easy to share. It's easy to subscribe.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. From Yahoo!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. And Katya tells us why Seth Godin is right about people being lazy and in a hurry, and gives us some tips on how to use that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Nancy Schwartz wrote this amazing guest post that provided some tips and advice on how to think through the messaging and branding of your Facebook Page. It immediately reduced my tagline anxiety. I came up with a couple of phrases that described me and what I do and that were not a call to action. I started with “Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. Many answers here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2009

Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. You don't have to be a blogger, or live in the Bay Area to take the Challenge). Hat tip to Tyson Foods Hunger Relief 's post Hunger Twitterers ). (Hat

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

If you have your own tips for nonprofit success, please share in the comments section below. Blogger has been having a few issues lately, but they're working to resolve their problems and will hopefully restore the comments soon. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of Facebook: Create a Page, Not a Group. Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. First in Education.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Community is built on a million everyday interactions between community members.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 20, 2018

Deliver your releases to community organizations, local bloggers who care about your cause and national publishers that align with your mission and vision. If you aren’t using social media, start—reporters often look at social media feeds to discover breaking news. But don’t stick to just the regular outlets. Invest in social media.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This latest Member Round Up features lots of goodies, from tips on social media and email campaigns, to new research on impact investing and Idealist''s funny obsession drawing a famous actor. John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. In fact, I watched Laura crowdsource some of her presentation on FriendFeed. FriendFeed also has "rooms" that can be public or private - these feeds with discussion items.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" RSS feeds are your friends. Do you have other tips in handling crisis communications?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Veesees Elise Bauer , a food blogger who writes Simple Recipes. She has 1,000,000 feed readers. Know the basics of search engines optimization (see the page in her presentation, there are some great tips). What are your tips for getting traffic to your blog? Why do you want traffic? Font size important.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’ve made it easy for CauseVox clients to get on board with #GivingTuesday by creating a set of resources, tips, guides, and providing extra support specific to the campaign. Here’s our tips for planning a hybrid fundraising event. They raised $92,000 to feed families in the Seattle area, more than tripling their original goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

I'm hoping that we'll end the discussion with a kick-a** tip sheet for video bloggers who want to get started promoting their blogs and shows. Bring your best promo tips to share. RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. 10:00 - 10:30 Mingling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Put your feed button above the fold. We inevitably associate a professional design with how seriously the blogger or webmaster takes what they do. ve written about this in detail at Blogging Tips. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts. Give readers the option to subscribe at the end of your articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Are they tips? Are they tip posts, resource roundups, or other formats?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth Blog shared a story of how she and her daughter played the Freerice game, a quiz-style vocabulary builder that rewards correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children, distributed by the U.N.'s Parenting Tips To Encourage Your Child's Philanthropy 1. s World Food Programme.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Bonus Tip: Rather than email alerts, you can use a feed reader like Google Reader to collect all of your listening alerts and searches from Google, blog search engines and Twitter into one place. Google Reader will also suggest more relevant blog posts based on your feed subscriptions, all the better for listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger. There isn't one code of ethics that all bloggers follow. Who in the organization should blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Ever since Allyson Kaplin of RAD Campaign became the editor of Frogloop, Care2's nonprofit online marketing blog , Frogloop has experienced a Renaissance of regular, valuable postings both from Allyson herself and guest bloggers. I keep up with all of them using my favorite feed reader, Google Reader. Know thy online strategy!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! I wish all nonprofits understood this! at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! I wish all nonprofits understood this! at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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