How to evaluate a blog – Part 1:
Ask questions

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In evaluating a blog, try to understand “the environment” before even looking at the blog itself. Ask the most relevant questions to the blogmaster, so you can form an idea what is in their mind: what is this blog all about? What’s the purpose? How are they set up,..?

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to evaluate a blog

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It is encouraging to see how many nonprofit organisations discover the power of social media and the added-value of blogs. Comes a time, though, where any blogmaster asks the question: “I am on the right track here?” You can look at your own blog until you are dizzy. You still won’t see what someone else [...]

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Publish a full RSS feed, or a teasers only ?

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Have you ever asked yourself the question to feature full blogposts in your RSS feed, or to only publish a teaser? Maybe you should! I used my personal blog with a humble 700-800 RSS subscribers, as a test case.

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Wanna walk the talk? Join our social media team

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I have been preaching good social media practices for nonprofit organisations for quite a while. Now I was offered the chance to “walk my talk”, a chance to I also want to extend to you “out there”. Lemme explain. In October this year, there will be an event, dubbed “AgKnowledge Africa”. It is participatory conference, [...]

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Power tools to manage multiple Twitter accounts

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For the past 18 months, I managed a dozen different Twitter accounts. From each, I tweet simple text phrases, links, and pictures. I follow my social crowd closely, checking the replies and direct message I get. I also retweet and engage into conversations, as a good social media user should do. In short, I am [...]

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Paper.li turns your Twitter stream into a web magazine

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My post about “Flipboard”, an iPad application which turns several social media streams into a slick magazine, stirred up some discussions at a local Tweetup. In the article, I complained about the boring feat of browsing through your Twitter stream, which is nothing more than a mere list of links and comments. While Flipboard turns [...]

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Flipboard turns Twitter and Facebook into an iPad magazine

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For someone who only upgraded from a 1997 Palm III PDA and a 2003 Nokia to an iPhone last year, I am now proud to be part of the in-crowd: I have an iPad. The only reason why I have an iPad, is that I dreamt of having an iPad. I believe in my dreams. [...]

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Is blogging still fun?

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I am not sure how often I feel like walking a road, ending up somewhere at a hurdle. And then I look around me and think “How did I end up here?”. I mean this “blogging thing” is great. It gives the power to distribute information “to the masses”. Being an anti-authoritarian at heart, I [...]

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Love is… letting her choose your blog’s banner

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Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

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Shared hosting: Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys

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See the bottom of the post for updates on my adventures with GoDaddy shared hosting.. My experience in selfhosting my blogs with GoDaddy moved from a glowing enthusiasm via consternation and frustration into a deep distrust and disbelief. In this post, I want to take you through the past year, as I discovered some of [...]

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Blogging for nonprofit: IRC’s WASH Blogs

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If you use WASH as a noun, rather than a verb, you gotta be working in the humanitarian field. WASH stands for “WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene”, one of the key sectors in the field of aid and development. As with any nonprofit area, advocacy, information dissemination and project discussions are key to the WASH sector, [...]

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