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Picasa is Cool! Blogbinders not so cool.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today's task was to further explore the question: What is the easiest way for a user who doesn't know HTML to upload images on Blogger? This free software download from Google is like having the tags of flickr on your hard drive, lets you visually search through your folders, and then upload, print, edit photos, burn cds, order prints, etc.

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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

If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. You need to think about these questions first, widgets second. Do you ask good questions that lead to conversations online? They follow below.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

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If you search the web for the organization, you won’t get to some academic-looking page in soft blues and statistics. We field questions for science fairs and research. The reason we chose typepad [wordpress] is because we could be notified immediately when we get a comment in, we can monitor in live time.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

around 80% of the hits are coming from search. Search drives visitor behavior. hits come through search. 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 had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this. Be proactive.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. A time consuming pain.