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

Amy Sample Ward

It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The The same values hold true today over at NTEN ).

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet. I'm getting email descriptions and since my depth of knowledge of SF isn't as deep, it is hard for me understand some of what I read in text. Also, I'm a visual learner.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't know how good the Typepad RSS traffic stats are, but you might want to look at reburning your feed at Feedburner.com. I think nonprofits really need to use blogs to keep themselves on the public radar screen, to deepen the public knowledge about the issues as they unfold, and as a way to mobilize supporters.

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Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Additionally, Google Analytics requires more "heavy lifting" and knowledge within your organization to configure it to collect data the way some of the more expensive packages do. You can view more detailed instructions for installing Google Analytics on Drupal , Joomla , Typepad , Wordpress , and even MySpace (yes it works!).

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you have a small budget, you might consider a blogging platform like typepad for the ease of use. You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Think of wikis of a good tool to collect information or knowledge.

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