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So You Think You Can Blog? Guidelines For New Bloggers

Care2

You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. Here are some of the key lessons we've learned at Rad Campaign through blogger orientations and trainings we've run.

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Best Practices Using Creatives Commons License

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Cambodia4kids Creative Commons License. This post titled " To My Readers: Avoiding Plagiarism, Understanding the Creative Commons License " made some great points about giving attribution in blog posts beyond a link. More about Open Content and Creative Commons licenses here.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use the " BY Attribution " creative commons license. I've used this license. I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. No, but is more likely to happen is that people will use the work, use the license honestly, and improve the work.

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Great reads from around the web on April 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

Indeed, now faced with existential challenges from a fast shifting landscape, the time has come for us all to rethink our most deeply held tenets in this struggle to remain relevant. 3 principles for reporters and bloggers in a networked era | Online Journalism Blog – I totally agree that context is just as important as content. "Dina

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Look Ahead Where You Want to Go

Have Fun - Do Good

I'm having a bit of blogger's block, so I thought I'd share this post from August 31, 2005 (my 4th blog post!), During the last 14 20 years that I've lived in the Bay Area, I can count on one hand the number of times I've driven a car, even though I have a license. Look Ahead Where You Want to Go. I hate to drive.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. Thanks again for the post you bad blogger. ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08 So what’s the news? These are good steps forward.

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