Comments on: So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Build Your Nonprofit’s Website | just b.CAUSE https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-76164 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:57:49 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-76164 […] How to Create a Blog for Your Organization […]

]]> By: Christian Guerreiro https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74885 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:53:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74885 This is a great post on the benefits of starting a blog and how it is such a fantastic platform for sharing content and commenting.
I think a nice follow-up to this would be for the bloggers to use plug-ins which will help them optimise their content for the search engines. This will make their content more crawlable by Google and the other search engines and will result in attracting more visitors to the blog which in turn will help their readership grow.

WordPress have free plug-ins called All in One SEO Pack, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

This will appear below your post and you can start by optimising your content title and description tags so that they reflect the main subject/ topic of that particular blog post. Be sure to include that as your main keyword within both of these tags.

]]> By: Anonymous https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74635 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:45:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74635 In reply to Julia Smith.

Thanks for your feedback, Julia! I’m so glad to hear that the test drive is
going well 🙂

I really like that you are also commenting on each other’s drafts and ideas.
Hopefully, just as dumping things into the google doc will help you find the
voice and focus for the blog itself, it’ll get the team into practice of
commenting and starting conversations when the posts are actually published!

Thanks again for sharing,
a

]]> By: Julia Smith https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74634 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:42:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74634 This post came at just the right time. Our organization already has a blog, but some of us are planning a separate blog to keep people informed about a specific project. As we work to get our WordPress set up, I started a Google doc called “Blog Sandbox” (inspired by your Test Drive idea) where the staff who will be writing can dump ideas and drafts, and even begin commenting on each others’ “posts.” It’s really helping us to find our voice(s) and figure out what will belong on this separate blog as opposed to the org-wide blog.

]]> By: Anonymous https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74564 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:29:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74564 In reply to Mazarine.

Thanks for sharing the link, Mazarine! It’s a very interesting topic and I’d
love to hear more about why you feel ambivalent towards blogging now. Do you
mind sharing?

Personally, I’ve never tried to “monetize” this blog: it does not have ads,
I do not engage in paid-for (whether with money or other rewards) content
and all of the content is licensed with Creative Commons for non-commercial
attribute share-alike repurposing (I don’t monetize the content and others
are free to reuse it so long as they aren’t trying to monetize off it). As
such, the monetization of Twitter doesn’t make me feel less inclined to
blog; if anything, it makes me feel less inclined to tweet! 🙂

Thanks again for bringing this up!

]]> By: Mazarine https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74527 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:29:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74527 I was looking at an article recently on Gifthub and it talked about commercializing the social, implicit in The Clue Train manifesto.

http://www.gifthub.org/2011/01/twitter-monetizes-conversation-micro-blogging-platform-twitter-could-generate-as-much-as-250-million-in-ad-revenue-by-201.html

What do you think this says about us, in communities, in nonprofits, and as bloggers?

Personally, I am feeling more ambivalent towards blogging now.

Mazarine

]]> By: Mazarine https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74526 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:29:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74526 I was looking at an article recently on Gifthub and it talked about commercializing the social, implicit in The Clue Train manifesto.

http://www.gifthub.org/2011/01/twitter-monetizes-conversation-micro-blogging-platform-twitter-could-generate-as-much-as-250-million-in-ad-revenue-by-201.html

What do you think this says about us, in communities, in nonprofits, and as bloggers?

Personally, I am feeling more ambivalent towards blogging now.

Mazarine

]]> By: Mazarine https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74524 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:25:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74524 In reply to Anonymous.

I agree, tumblr is not an ideal blogging platform. I think it’s more useful for microblogging pictures, like http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com
and http://www.iheartpapyrus.com/
and for this purpose, it is good.
I have gotten many laughs and beautiful pictures and ideas from Tumblr sites.

]]> By: Mazarine https://amysampleward.org/2011/02/01/so-youre-thinking-about-blogging-how-to-create-a-blog-for-your-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-74525 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:25:00 +0000 https://amysampleward.org/?p=2245#comment-74525 In reply to Anonymous.

I agree, tumblr is not an ideal blogging platform. I think it’s more useful for microblogging pictures, like http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com
and http://www.iheartpapyrus.com/
and for this purpose, it is good.
I have gotten many laughs and beautiful pictures and ideas from Tumblr sites.

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