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Testing the Typepad Facebook Automatic Posting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just testing this new feature in typepad that lets you automatically cross publish to Facebook profile. The issue for organizations using groups and to some extent causes, it that the features like this are limited. See larger image here. It didn't prompt me and it automatically published it. I'm not sure of the value added for that.

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

Amy Sample Ward

Resources: Global Voices has created a Guide to Blog For A Cause. (There are lots of great posts out there about getting started and selecting a platform, including this one from ProBlogger.) Some of the leading platforms you may want to consider include (in alphabetical order): Blogger. MoveableType. Squarespace.

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Simon Berry's Facebook Query

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some observations: This gets to the tension points between you as an individual representing your organization in Facebook via your personal profile versus using groups, causes, or pages that have less than adequate features for efficiency and community building. Share on Facebook bookmarklet I use this to share web pages while I'm browsing.

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Wild About Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections??? And rather than causing software bloat, widgetized software elements are something that you only use if you find them useful.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? Birthday Greeting.

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Blogging for Writers

Have Fun - Do Good

Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.