Blogger suffers from Friday the 13th Syndrome

Blogger suffers from the “Friday the 13th”-syndrome. Actually, yesterday it suffered from “Thursday the 12th”-syndrome. It seems Blogger is read-only for the moment. No logging in, and no posting possible. Oh well… Update: At least, this time, Blogger updated its status blog: To get Blogger back to normal, all posts since 7:37am PDT on Weds, [...]

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Yahoo Pipes Significant Error Message

Yahoo Pipes is acting up again. Here is their most significant of error messages… So.. should I tell them I think there is a problem?…

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Inspiration for Social Media Policy and Strategy

I am preparing a set of trainings and workshops on social media for CGIAR. One of the topics covers is the social media strategy and policy for their different research centers and projects. So I asked my friends in the KM4Dev and Web2forDEV communities for examples and inspirational literature.

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Survey: How NonProfit Organisations use Social Media

Earlier this year NTEN, Common Knowledge and Blackbaud surveyed 11,000 nonprofit professionals on their use of social media. Their findings are summarized in a free downloadable report. Here are some nice-to-know snippets which caught my eye, followed by my own observations:

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“How to evaluate a blog” – The Online Manual

Several months ago, I wrote a series of blogposts, turned tutorial, about “How to evaluate a blog”. The series helps people improve blogs on key criteria such as traffic, speed, usability, use of real estate, graphic presentation and SEO. For all intents and purposes, it can also be used as a list of hints and [...]

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IFAD’s social media guidelines – A must read

View more documents from IFAD

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Got a lot of blog content? Try a magazine layout!

Long gone are the times where blogs were just a mere sequential series of short posts. Some blogs have grown to thousands of content pieces. Keeping a large blog as just a serial row of posts will obscure content for your visitors, allowing only horizontal navigation: from post to post to post to post… Key [...]

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Shared hosting: Comparing GoDaddy with DreamHost

After my debacle with GoDaddy, I moved most of my high volume blogs to a HostGator Virtual Private Server. I still had some test blogs on GoDaddy’s shared servers, but as the speed and uptime of GoDaddy went from bad to worse, I recently moved several of these blogs to a DreamHost shared server. Here [...]

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Help! My server performance went down!

A few months ago, I migrated 7 blogs with 350,000 blogposts from Tumblr to WordPress on my VPS server. Together with some other blogs and websites, that server happily processed about 50,000 visitors per month, with a steady increase of about 10% per month. All sites and the SQLserver were properly tuned, and the server [...]

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How to make search engines discover more posts on your blog

As I explained in my tutorial “How to analyse your visitors’ traffic figures”, the search engine traffic is important to have people discover your blog. So we have to do everything we can to make search engines discover our blog’s content, through SEO or Search Engine Optimization. While there is much written about SEO, any [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to use Twitter

Twitter is, with Facebook (but better ), THE most written about and the most cheered social media tool in the past years. But it is also one of the most powerful tools for nonprofit organisations to create a community, to propagate your core messages and to kickstart fundraising and advocacy. It is a conversation tool, [...]

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