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

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1.

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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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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. My first blog was on a colleague's movetable type server in 2000 and when typepad launched in 2003?, I tried to apply all that I learned about facilitating online conversations, connecting, and networking to blogging.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't know how good the Typepad RSS traffic stats are, but you might want to look at reburning your feed at Feedburner.com. A large number of big corporations are using internal blogs to facilitate conversation between leadership and the rest of the organization. They have great stats and services. That's very exciting, I think.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you have a small budget, you might consider a blogging platform like typepad for the ease of use. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger. Here's a screencast to show you how. That's what I use and why I use it).

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