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10 Best Blogging Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

NonProfit Hub

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. For example, WordPress offers plenty of free and premium plugins for extending your blog’s functionality.

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Ning: Phoenix or Fizzle?

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this year, Ning announced that it would be dropping 40% of it’s staff and dropping the free service which came as a shock to much of the community, including author of the Ning for Dummies book Manny Hernandez and spurring many forums and blogs to create lists of Ning alternatives that were still free. Interview.

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4 Resources to Transform Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Strategy

NonProfit Hub

Meanwhile, Slides offers templates for slideshows, and Forms is home to templates such as polls, pop quizzes and lists. WordPress Themes. WordPress is a popular website designing and content management system that can help you get blog posts going or just give you a simple Internet presence.

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Social Media for Volunteer Managing and More

Tech Soup

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. Blogs are a great way to both build community with volunteers and be able to address your community in a much more fluid way than using your organization's official website.

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Optimizing Your Site for Social Media Visitors

NTEN

All that being said, let’s assume you're redoing your organizational web site, and want to make it work well for your visitors arriving from social media communities. We call that “exposing your community”. Note: Causes does provide some of these actions, so consider using it if Causes is right for your organization or initiative.).

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets. Polls are a great way to get reader feedback too.

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9 Captivating Content Ideas to Enhance Your Nonprofit Blog

Get Fully Funded

Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. This could include: Games Quizzes Polls Maps Petitions Ensure your interactive content is directly related to your nonprofit’s mission. This might seem like next-level content that’s out of your organization’s reach.