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

Amy Sample Ward

Getting an idea about the kinds of things you could post and the people who will post it will help you select the most appropriate platform to use and create an editorial/content calendar. Test Drive It. There are two aspects to a proper test drive: First, give it a go without having a blog. That’s right, I really said that.

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Screencast: Call for Blog Actors!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. I'm particulary interested in typepad widgets, but blogger, wordpress, and others are okay. Publishing tag clouds, links from socialbookmarking, etc on your blog. Live chat on your blog. mail on your blog.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you have a small budget, you might consider a blogging platform like typepad for the ease of use. Calendar: Google Calendar. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger. Here's a screencast to show you how. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. That's what I use and why I use it).

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