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Building Your Blog Audience: Answering Fern Thai's Question

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The question is about building a community around your blog. One quick question I???d To answer question about how long I've been blogging - I started in 2001 (doing it manually, but not consistently). Tony was kind enough to help promote the America's Giving Challenge to his community on MySpace. ve been blogging?

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Sweet tasting dogfood…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. {

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Take Aways from Blogher: Some Reflections and Personal Takeaways

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She also happens to be a web designer who works with typepad! Most importantly, how to deal with the categories using a feature on typepad called typepad notes which allows you to be free from some of the templates. call to action, suggestions for next steps, ask questions they might consider, etc.) Then make your points.

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Thank You Chris Blow for Cleaning Up My RSS Mess!

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I discovered that I had problem figuring out how many total feed subscribers and the trends over time because I had four feeds (three built into the typepad blogging platform) and another one in feedburner which offers the stats tracking feature. or gives them a polite apology and a 404 message). including your feeds.

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Why blog?

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I ask myself this question every now and then. I had my interview last week and I always like the opportunity to answer questions that encourage reflection. Questions like. I started blogging in 2000 or so - maintaining link lists on html pages and then with a blogger blog before starting this typepad blog in 2003.

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How To Make Your Content More Shareable: Screencast

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I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. Nick asked the question. Now, I have some questions. I replied by email with a cc to Michele. I saw this on her blog.

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Using Chris Brogan's Archimedes Principle To Leverage Nonprofits on Twitter Suggested User List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? She recommends that you don't just look at numbers, but ask questions. So, this sent me over to my new typepad metrics dashboard to see what the impact might be.

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