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Skype fails. Now what?

Since Microsoft bought Skype for 8 billion USD (“Don’t they know they could download it for free?”), it seems Skype had more downtime than ever before. Some of the problems are at the level of the server, but the most annoying problems have been the automatic (Read: “Forced”) upgrade to Skype version 5.3 on the [...]

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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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“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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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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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to select your blog platform

Alright! You recognized your organisation can benefit from a blog and you know what you will blog about. But… which “software” should you use to blog? From the many different blogplatforms on the market, which suits your needs? In this tutorial, I explain the questions you need to ask yourself, the basic choices you will [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to analyse your blog’s visitors statistics

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, will give you heaps of figures, but how do you make sense out of all that? What do these figures mean and what can I do with [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
Starting a blog from scratch

As a nonprofit organisation, you want to start blogging? In this tutorial, I collected a number of posts to get you on your way:

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Blogging is dead, long live Blogging!

Many organisations struggle to get their blog onto the next level, to make proper use of social media tools, to technically manage these tools, and to make their content “travel” through the social media scene. If we concentrate only on blogging, the answer is not in a simple post “How to make your blog successful [...]

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