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Blogging for Nonprofits: There's Less to This Than Meets the Eye

by Deborah Elizabeth Finn on Tue 17 May 2005 12:41 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Here's some good news for nonprofit and philanthropic professionals who wonder whether they should create blogs for their organizations:

A blog is just a tool for posting items in reverse chronological order to the web.

That's all.

It can be no more than a very simple content management system for a very simple web site.

While the stereotypical blog functions as a kind of online diary about the writer's activities, thoughts, and feelings - from a technical point of view, the content could just as easily consist of minutes from monthly meetings of a local zoning committee.

Your blog doesn't have to be personal; it just has to be the right tool for the job.

NPtech

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Blogging for Nonprofits: There's Less to This Than Meets the Eye

by Emily on Wed 18 May 2005 09:02 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

After reading this, I decided to write an entry in my blog called Ideas for Nonprofit Blogs.

I think a blog for a nonprofit organization can be compared to a newsletter.

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Blogging for Nonprofits: There's Less to This Than Meets the Eye

by Joe Jurczyk on Thu 23 Jun 2005 12:08 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Emily,

That's exactly why we started doing it. We publish monthly online newsletters on the first of every month and wouldn't you know it, big news would always happen on the 2nd day of the month and we'd have to wait 29-30 days to tell our readers about it.

Joe
Grassroots.org
http://www.grassroots.org/blog

Re: Blogging for Nonprofits: There's Less to This Than Meets the Eye

by Deborah Elizabeth Finn on Wed 25 May 2005 08:58 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

In his blog, Vermont Nonprofit CommunIT, Sonny Cloward offers some important insights of his own along with a selection of links to other reflections on the topic of blogging for nonprofits.

Re: Blogging for Nonprofits: There's Less to This Than Meets the Eye

by Deborah Elizabeth Finn on Thu 26 May 2005 10:47 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Here's another interesting perspective: "My Thoughts Re: the 501(c)3 Blogosphere" from a blog called The Rhetoric Of Me. The author, Lisa (no surname given), serves as vice president of marketing with the American Cancer Society.

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