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

Amy Sample Ward

Create Community Dialogue. Whether you are asking for feedback, sharing stories, or urging people to take action, providing a place for your community to share back with you shows your openness to feedback and interest in the community. Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. MoveableType.

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The fourth, and very interesting development, is the relationships that have been developing between nonprofit-focused technology providers of all stripes and open source developer communities (at this point, primarily CMS projects.) Is this typepad? at 10:46 am It is not typepad. And so the feedback cycle keeps going.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since I believe that it is important to learn from adjacent practices, I started engaging with the nonprofit technology community in the late 1990’s when it was just a handful of people. In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate. So now, finally, we get to the metrics. In this example, we are using a blog.

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Building Your Blog Audience: Answering Fern Thai's Question

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tony was kind enough to help promote the America's Giving Challenge to his community on MySpace. The question is about building a community around your blog. In 2003, I heard that six apart was going to offer moveable type as a service called typepad so I signed up when they opened in 2003. One quick question I???d

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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

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers. TypePad AntiSpam: A Better Way to Handle Spam.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. at 1:35 pm And just noticed that you are using the “online status&# widget for typepad and would like to know what you think about that in terms of building community on a nonprofit blog?