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Blogging for Writers

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WorldChanging Book: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century You can find more blogs using blog search engines: Google Blog Search Technorati You can read blogs in a feed reader like: Bloglines Rojo Google Reader Create your own blog with one of these “platforms”: Blogger Wordpress.com Wordpress.org Typepad Movable Type Your blog readers (..)

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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How to Start Your Basic Blog

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If I had known I would like blogging so much, I would have set up a Typepad account, because it has more features, but Blogger is just fine and it's a bargain! Allow comments and make your pages findable by search engines. In Site Feed: click "Yes" in answer to "Publish Site Feed" so that other people can publish your posts elsewhere.

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now, they may not be calling it a widget, some refer to as "badges." Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

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Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. around 80% of the hits are coming from search. Search drives visitor behavior. It's around.

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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

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. Act 2: Why.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

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Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. Technorati ???Authority???