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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. 9) Publish numbered lists.

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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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Blog Tips to Boost Your Web Traffic

Care2

That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. What are the best blogging practices your organization should implement that will also generate more blog traffic? They should not be wonky – unless your targeting policy makers. :). How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls. Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman.

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media. That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0 A big thank you conference organizers!

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A Nice Holiday Gift for School Kids Everywhere

Forum One

The site is a toolkit of free online services for child health advocates, including a map of the obesity prevention movement , customizable widgets, cell phone tools, and blogger outreach services. Site visitors can sign up as leaders in the movement or add themselves to the map. Check out Pick Chow! and the whole list of other winners.

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Blogger Uses Petition Site to Create Better Transportation for NY - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

It will be a powerful grassroots greening machine; with bloggers, writers, and volunteers all contributing to local greening efforts; and held together by the added sticky-ness of good dynamic content, great search engine optimization, and of course that Web 2.0 All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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