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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

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A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation?

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Durff's Slide Show: Why Integrate Blogging

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I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).

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Boost Your Voice with LightBox Collaborative’s 2012 Editorial Calendar

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Flickr Photo by Yandel. Holly did a fantastic session on integrated content strategies. And traditional media coverage is now increasingly driven by conversation and content that starts off in the online space, on the communications platforms and channel driven by nonprofits themselves. Content is King.

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What Tools Do You Use for Making Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Use Efficient?

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Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. We engage in multiple social networks, some that you probably also use: Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Flickr , Slideshare , our own blog , and a few other networks. Aggregating Conversations. Doing social media right takes time.

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What is the best way to deliver professional development to nonprofit emerging leaders?

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Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Effective delivery for professional development needs to be integrated into the actual work day and that with limited professional development budgets and fast paced workloads, micro-content and micro-exercises as well as mini-sessions are most useful.

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Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Entry Points for Engagement

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NTEN’s 09NTC just wrapped up in San Francisco and many conversations at the conference focused on social media use by nonprofits. It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. Your approach should be integrative.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

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Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Effective content curation can help your nonprofit engage your audiences and help spread your organization’s content beyond current supporters because it can trigger sharing and conversation. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell.

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