Due to the Treasury Board’s current focus on internal social media initiatives, I have recently received an influx of requests to help public servants develop external social media engagement guidelines, particularly ones to do with blogging. Find out who else is blogging or publishing on the topic, and cite them.

Despite the landscape and view people may hold when they think of today’s journalism, enrollment in journalism school has INCREASED ! Dear May 2009 Graduate, Here are 40 reasons to still study journalism: We need journalism. I am completely biased in this post because of my own studies in journalism. Jobs are being cut. Cliche?

Beth Kanter, a thought leader in the world of nonprofit blogging, recently shared some useful criteria to help nonprofits decide whether to blog or not. It's a “business-lunch blog” -- a simple, general blog that chronicles events and ideas in the life of the nonprofit organization. 06NTC blogging nonprofit nptech.

By my most recent count, there are 106 fundraising blogs out there. My definition of "fundraising blogs" is deliberately broad -- these are blogs that are touch on fundraising in some way, at some time. Fundraising blogs most likely to help you be a better fundraiser. Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Seth's Blog.

One of the things I talked about was blogging. For a nonprofit, a blog is an inexpensive way to communicate with lots of people and open up dialog with supporters.  It offers a quick way to provide timely and regularly updated information and to answer any questions your readers may have. .

million American nonprofits, including trade associations and membership groups, will lose their official "charity" status with the Internal Revenue Service, at midnight on May 15, and thereby lose their tax exemption status. You may find ways to contact the I.R.S. As many as one quarter of 1.6 In 2007, the I.R.S. annually.

quot; Behind the Scenes in the Blogosphere: Advice from Established Bloggers " contains useful information, and I recommend it if your nonprofit has a blog or is considering one. The study did not measure the opinions of the blogs' readers, readers' use of the blogs, or the effect of business blogs on customer or stakeholder behavior.

For a friend who works for a wonderful, youth-engaging nonprofit, I am seeking examples of organizations that have sponsored a youth or teen blogging project. The purpose may range from engaging youth in raising awareness of an issue to helping them enhance skills such as writing, self-expression, leadership, and community building.

Using video as an example, having a video on YouTube can be wonderful exposure, and you may actually inspire a donation or two from somebody in a different part of the country, but the real reason why you should be producing a video is to update your communications with your existing constituents. RSS feeds of your blogs, videos, etc.,

Britt Bravo has put together this great FAQ about blogging. If someone writes something bad about your organization, I'll betcha that they are saying it to other people, and that other people may have the same feelings. Tags: blogging especially like her thoughts regarding what to do about Blogphobia ! Here's the thing: 1.