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

Amy Sample Ward

Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? You can use videos or images, you can hold competitions for ideas, you can post your favorite links or have guest contributors. What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) Do you have lots of different voices?

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Love It: Tumblr Blogs for Nonprofits

Have Fun - Do Good

In my book, making your blog posts visually appealing is one of the eight qualities of a juicy blog , which is why I'm excited nonprofits are starting to use the micro-blogging platform, Tumblr, to share photos, slideshows, videos, links, quotes, and news. I'm still a huge fan of traditional blogging platforms (e.g.

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Google Media = Nonprofit Grants, Blogs, Video and Maps Galore

Connection Cafe

Services like TypePad and Wordpress tend to be top-of-mind platforms for new bloggers, but the session covered a ton of features about what makes Blogger different and great for nonprofits such as: Free hosting (use your own URL!). Photo and video uploading. Integration with YouTube, Picassa, and other rich media sites and files.

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Thank you NTEN for the Fantasticness Award!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the video we made on the spot as a demo. A few folks called out -- "She's video blogging!" And, I also got a life time subscription to Typepad and Flickr! Yesterday morning, Andy Carvin , J onny Goldstein , and I presented a videoblogging panel at the NTC. However, Friday at lunch, NTEN gave out some awards.

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The New Permalink: How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The other day, I found a link to my video and notes from Joshua Schachter talk at Berkman on a blog from Fred Wilson. One of his posts, called " The New Permalinks " mentioned that he replaced the words "permalink" in the typepad blog with the actual title of the post. He didn't share how to do it and hope he will.

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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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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195.

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