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Now I know why Technorati ranking hasn't changed in months!

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Most bloggers use the Technorati index to benchmark authority ranking. The last six months, my Technorati rank has been the same, I have not moved the needle. I thought Technorati might be busted or maybe the Technorati monster escaped. The higher the number, the greater the level of Authority a blog earns.

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Technorati How Tos

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Technorati is a blog search engine. Technorati Tags: Introduction from by Improbulus How to Boost Your Blog Traffic with Technorati (tells you how to claim your blog, rankings, etc) Technorati Hacks (covers some tips and tricks for searching, being found, pinging, etc.). Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , technorati

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

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Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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State of the Blogosphere 2009 Introduction Blogging - Technorati

AFP Blog

State of the Blogosphere 2009 Introduction Blogging - Technorati: "Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 report, which will be released in five consecutive daily segments."

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Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008

AFP Blog

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008: "Blogs are Pervasive and Part of Our Daily LivesThere have been a number of studies aimed at understanding the size of the Blogosphere, yielding widely disparate estimates of both the number of blogs and blog readership.

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Is Peach The New Killer App?

Care2

There’s a new social app called Peach that’s trending with the technorati and social media community. Developed by Vine co-founder Dom Hoffman, the app is a mix between Twitter and Slack. Last week it reached the top 100 apps in the Itunes store. No easy feat.

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Attract Tech Volunteers To Your Nonprofit With These 5 Tips

TechImpact

Image courtesy of Technorati. We all know nonprofits don’t have a huge budget for a full IT support staff, but some nonprofits look for volunteers to help keep the technology cranking.

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6 Hashtag Mistakes Your Nonprofit Is Probably Making

TechImpact

Image courtesy of Technorati. Social Media can be a fickle beast. What drew huge engagement one week, could fail to even spark a hint of interest the next. So what gives? It’s not your content. That’s been refined, edited twice, and is discussing a timely subject. It’s not the time when you submitted the tweet, blog post, or Facebook share.

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Add Your Cause-Related Blog to the List of Change

Have Fun - Do Good

Each blog's ranking is established by statistics: Technorati ranking, Technorati inbound blog links, Bloglines subscriptions, Alexa rank, Google pagerank, and Yahoo! Eventually the List will be moved to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s site after its redesign. inbound links.

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What tools and keywords do you use for your organization's listening dashboard?

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Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Tweetmeme - tells you the most popular tweets about a subject. Twitter Search - shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don't use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately). Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Digg - shows most popular articles on the web.

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The Top (insert type) Bloggers Lists

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Stephen goes on to critique automated rating services like Technorati. " Nor should they feel that rankings - Technorati or otherwise - are in some way indicative of the quality of the writing, despite what McLeod claims. For one thing, I don't agree with McLeod's argument. " For another, I agree with Jennifer Wagner.

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

Some highlights from our chat: • During the 2007 Blogger Challenge, he said, “we saw that a handful of bloggers who wouldn’t appear on the Technorati top 100 list and don’ have huge readerships were actually capable of raising the most money from their readers because they have a personal relationship with their followers.&#.

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Low Risk Blog Experiments

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in Technorati. Conclusions Technorati appears to be successful in helping a new blog to be found. Brian Kelly, whose blog feed I've added to my "Circle of the Wise" feed folder, has a section on his blog called ' Experiments. Claim your Blog??? Reasons For Experiment To explore ways in which a new blog can be found.

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How to Get Someone Other Than Your Mom to Read Your Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Search on Google Blog Search and Technorati --two blog search engines, for other people writing about your topic. In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." Read other blogs about your topic.

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

Amy Sample Ward

Get data and information about the blogosphere from Technorati. Resources: Global Voices has created a Guide to Blog For A Cause. Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. Start reading other blogs to get an idea of how to do it – here’s a whole dashboard full of blogs to get you started!

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

AFP Blog

Some interesting prognostications collected by Tech Soup Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014 : Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013, we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, (..)

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

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Technorati ???Authority??? Technorati ???Authority??? Kaushik admits to mixed feelings about Technorati and I know Amy Gahran has tracked and written about the drawbacks to Technorati. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to more or less go up.

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The Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase "Mash Pit" (Vote for DataMasher!)

Forum One

Technorati tags: gov20e , gov20expo. Other F1-ers at the event today include Kurt Voelker ( @kvoelker ) and Chris Wolz ( @cwolz ). Please stop by our table, (a.k.a. the "Mash Pit") to see DataMasher in action!

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Open Source Algorithm for Metric for understanding of blogs

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Mary Hodder's post Link Love Lost or How Social Gestures within Topic Groups are More Interesting Than Link Counts comes directly out of the discussion at blogher at the Technorati 100. Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster.

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Why go to Face-to-Face Conferences? Inspiration!

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Technorati Tags: nptech I have to blog this: "The most underrated benefit of the face-to-face effect of conferences is INSPIRATION." " Kathy Sierra's post about the value of face-to-face interaction in the age of remote conference attendance.

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Let's all check out the NpDev Tag.

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That's is when a live blogger - who is not on-site - is monitoring a dedicated IRC channel where someone in the room or at the conference is typing summary notes, monitoring the conference tag in flickr, technorati, and other places and live blogging a summary. I hope you'll all do the same.

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Chris Brogan - New Media School

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Chris mentioned this fabulous screencast about how to technorati ego surf - check it out.

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Swag/Flickr Photo Contest Mashup: I Love It!

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Technorati Tags: nptech. Creative Commons is running a Flickr Contest encouraging people to use their photographic skills to support Creative Commons. The official rules are here. What a great idea!

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Jason's Job Widget and the Show Yourself Widget

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Technorati /kanter. Jason over at Democracy in Action has created a job posting widget ! Beth Kanter. Flickr /cambodia4kidsorg. Myspace /sharingfoundation. Linkedin /bethkanter. Twitter /kanter. YouTube /bethkanter. Skype /cambodia4kids. Get your own Widget. I'm so weak. Back to work.

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Live Blogging the Live Blogging Training Sessions

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Someone who used to work for Technorati told us a secret about using the Technorati tag - you don't have to link to them. Here's structure to avoid giving Technorati the link. Live blogging is easier if you're drinking, next year we will have live blogger hip flasks.

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N-TEN Webinar Tommorrow on Tagging

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Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , tagging N-TEN is presenting a Webinar on Tagging tommorrow. Reserve your seat now! I just did. The informaton is here.

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Great Visual: Why Before What or How

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Technorati Tags: nptag I'd love to make one like this for tagging.

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eMetrics Panel Slides, Notes, and Blog Posts: ROI of Blogging, Twitter, and Digg for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be?    Our session is on the social media metrics track and one of a few that are geared for nonprofit folks.

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DC Does Public Information Right

Forum One

Technorati Tags: wes08sep. Post-event feedback shows that Vivek Kundra's presentation was extremely popular. We'll be sharing his presentation within the next week or two.

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NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. Do you follow your blog's technorati? I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Check it out. for his blog. Does it matter to you?

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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! &# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely.

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Job Opportunity - Community & Product Manager, RarePlanet.org

Forum One

Technorati Tags: rareplanet , rare , conservation , job. A complete job description and instructions for applying can be found on Rare's site. Forum One is proud to have provided strategic advisory services to Rare leading to the development of RarePlanet.org.

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See you at Boston Media Makers on June 3rd

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ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. posted to blog, ping technorati. -send your video to appropriate groups on video hosting sites. blogs with similar content and leave your url. linked in appropriate directories/collections related to your topic. ll be presenting these ideas at this week???

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It's Andrew Gianni!

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Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech I just stumbled upon Andrew Gianni' s blog!

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Social Media Anger Management Tips from Carie Lewis, HSUS

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If it's a blog, what's their technorati ranking? What is the severity of the person's tone - are they totally negative, neutral, seem like they could be talked to? 2 - influence. How many followers, friends, subscribers do they have? How many people are they really talking to? 3 - frequency.

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Deaf Blogs

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Technorati Tags: nptech , blogaccessibility , net2 From Deaf Blogs comes the first official proper vlog post.

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My (co) article on TechSoup about Second Life and Nonprofits!

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Technorati Tags: secondlife. We interviewed three nonprofit trailblazers -- Dave Pentecost (also known as avatar "Usu Ventura"), Barry Joseph ("Globalkids Bixby"), and Evonne Heyning ("In Kenzo") -- all from youth organizations doing projects in Second Life and pictured below!

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Idealist Is Feeding Googlebase

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 Check this out.

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Getting Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Tags: attention , nptech , net2 No, not Ed Batista. Nancy Schwartz. Via Michael Stein (West Coast).

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The Non-Profit Version of Google

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Technorati Tags: nonprofit , ngo This is pretty funny !

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