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When should a nonprofit organizational blog moderate comments? What are the different approaches?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission? The are several answers to this question. Why or why not? by Ken Fischer.

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Sweet tasting dogfood…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that.

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Using Chris Brogan's Archimedes Principle To Leverage Nonprofits on Twitter Suggested User List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? If you look in the comments , there was a lot of discussion and on nonprofit blogs about whether number of followers is a meaningful indicator or can be translated into value for nonprofits.

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How To Make Your Content More Shareable: Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. Nick asked the question. Now, I have some questions. I would like to see if number of comments correlates.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

No question about that. Update: MySpace, SixApart (LiveJournal, Typepad and the newish social networking blog platform Vox), and Bebo have now all joined OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? Most nonprofits haven’t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0 This is getting really interesting! {

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The New Permalink: How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of his posts, called " The New Permalinks " mentioned that he replaced the words "permalink" in the typepad blog with the actual title of the post. I'd also like to know how to add the "bookmark this post in delicious" feature that Marshall is using on typepad. Maybe Michelle would know? Thanks Albert!

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Can A Blogging Work Flow Tool Help Me Be More Productive?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. will save you time and increase traffic.

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