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Five Reasons Why Nonprofits Who Utilize Social Media Should Also Blog

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2) To improve your search engine results. have all changed the way they search the Web to archive and list Web pages in their search engines. Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. In recent years Google, Bing, Ask.com, etc.

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Let's Go Widget Shopping!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. It searches searches only a smaller portion of the Internet.

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Do Good Blogger Sampler and Other Blogging Links

Have Fun - Do Good

It's just a sampler of do good bloggers (please don't be sad if I didn't include you, it's a sampler ), links to blog search engines, links to blog feed readers, and links to blog software platforms.

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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

On the other hand, many blogs end up being positioned higher in search engine searches, so there must be some blogs that are being discovered via the browser and not a reader. Visitors or readers might find the search useful as well. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the.

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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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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. . $5-$30 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need. Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network.

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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. I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad.