When starting your first blog, be clear about your goals, and look closely at your fears. Your goals will guide your writing, and they will usually shut down your fears, too.
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I’m off to the Simmons Leadership Conference tomorrow, and I’m excited to meet some of the faculty in the Simmons MBA program, which hosts this annual conference. I’m particularly hoping that new faculty member Jill Avery will be around, since her teaching and research interests sound eerily similar to mine. But before diving into bed [...]
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Top The new multi-disciplinary blog aggregrator from Guy Kawasaki, Alltop.com, officially went live today. As noted here last week, the Nonprofit Alltop page looks to be a good at-a-glance resource for all the latest blog posts in the nonprofit world (primarily those in the United States, from the look of it, for now at least). [...]
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Tim Davies wrote this post about the ROI of social media versus the ROI of printed materials, which Beth Kanter pointed to here. It’s an interesting poke into the idea of establishing the ROI of social media, and asks what is the return on printed pamphlets or brochures? Of course, many brochures, leaflets, postcards, etc, [...]
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Do you think your organization needs a blog? Or is it just a “someday” thing — a back-burner item that you feel just has to wait until you can get more on track with fulfilling your mission, becoming better known and better respected, building your donor base, getting the press to cover you, and driving [...]
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At the end of the day today I spoke for a long time with Rebecca Krause-Hardie, an Arts/Technology blogger with whom I appear to have a great deal in common. It was a free-wheeling conversation, not least, I suspect, because I had ingested very little besides several vats of coffee throughout the course of the [...]
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The New York Times published an article by Brian Stelter on Saturday about the growing trend of workers watching short videos online during their lunch breaks, either on YouTube, CNN.com, or elsewhere. “The trend — part of a broader phenomenon known as video snacking — is turning into a growth business for news and media [...]
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say it loud
by BethDunn on February 29, 2008
We can’t promise you good things will happen when you put yourself out there. But we can guarantee that nothing will happen if you do nothing.” -Oren Sherman, Artist and Marketing Consultant Beth Kanter asks: What is your feeling about the value of comments to blogging?” I responded in her comments, and felt moved to [...]
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