Blogs and Community Engagement

Pew Internet and American Life has a new interesting report out about blogging. Their research shows that most people are blogging to share their personal experiences and knowledge and most blogs have only a small number of readers. Bloggers are blogging for creative, personal expression and to share their knowledge. Knowledge sharing is one of ...Read more
Posted in All, Social Media, July 21, 2006 | 0 comments

Getting Blogs Read

Is This Blog a Snooze? Ok readers (if there are any) be honest, is this blog a big snooze? My sister told me my blog was boring. Then I went to a seminar about blogging and was told that blogs need to have a really distinct voice and be bold and a little out ...Read more
Posted in All, Social Media, June 13, 2006 | 2 comments

Care and Feeding of Blogs

Blogs need care and feeding. One person told me that if you are going to do a blog you need to post every day. Ok so this blog needs some emergency food before it dies. I honestly find it tough to keep thinking of interesting things to post on my blog or to write in ...Read more
Posted in Social Media, March 2, 2006 | 0 comments

Social Networking

A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle explores Social Networking websites. They are more popular now than ever. The article explains how Facebook.com now has 8.3 million users and is the 11th most visited site on the Internet. Nonprofit organizations are starting to actively tap into the power of Social Networking sites to build awareness for ...Read more
Posted in Social Media, November 2, 2005 | 1 comment

Word of Blog

I may be a little behind on what is new and cool in the blogoshpere but I just discovered Word of Blog and thought I’d share it with you in case you haven’t heard of it yet. If you work for a nonprofit organization and want to get the word out about the good work ...Read more
Posted in Social Media, October 14, 2005 | 1 comment