Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine. Like I did for my first book, my royalties will be donated to the Sharing Foundation to support their education program that helps young Cambodians go to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

By far our most popular report has been Donate Now: Selecting an Online Donation Tools ??? our overview of 27 different online donation tools with reviews, recommendations, and summary charts. TypePad is in fact the only good choice if you want to really tailor the colors and add your logo but don't have HTML experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

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. If your organization Tweets, will they donate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I noticed today when I logged into Typepad that it is promoting the LinkedIn widget (ChipIn is the featured widget in the gallery , BTW). So, I figured what the heck, I'll make her a friend and ask her to donate. I had it on my blog before, but the now the integration makes it look much better and I've decided to add it back.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

Services like TypePad and Wordpress tend to be top-of-mind platforms for new bloggers, but the session covered a ton of features about what makes Blogger different and great for nonprofits such as: Free hosting (use your own URL!). It's a new way for you to drive action from your YT videos to take external action, sign up or donation pages.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. The upcoming donations API will allow organizations to deliver a completely customized donation experience. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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