Link Love: Beginning Blogging, Social Media, Nonprofit Exchanges

There has been some really excellent aggregate blogging recently. Check out the following best practice models for promoting conversations in the blogosphere.

Why Aggregate Posts Matter

Blogging is a conversation. Being active in the blogosphere means connecting with your fellow bloggers on topics you have in common and starting a conversation.

Aggregate posts like these are one way to do so. They allow bloggers to promote their own work and to add their opinions to the discussion.

Please check out the links below on beginning blogging, social media networks, and a nonprofit idea exchange.

November’s Carnival of Giving

While we are talking about blogging as conversation, don’t forget about November’s Giving Carnival where bloggers will form an online think tank to answer the question: “What best practices in business should nonprofits adopt to maximize their resources?”

Entries are due to me by Monday, November 26th and can be in the form of a blog post, comment, or article sent by e-mail.

Please add your expertise to the conversation.

Advice on Beginning Blogging

• Advice for new bloggers on the Blogging4Community website, which features community building advice for businesses, educators, etc.
• Getting Started: Advice for New Bloggers and Maintaining Your Blog: More Advice for Bloggers from Michele Martin’s excellent nonprofit blog, The Bamboo Project
• Must Read Articles for New Bloggers from Eric Socia’s A Blogging Blog for Bloggers

These articles feature my post “Words of Advice for Beginnging Bloggers.”

Social Media Networking

Steven Snell of Vandelay Website Design has compiled a superior article on “Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About Social Media.”

The post is divided into the following categories: StumbleUpon, Digg, Sphinn, Del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life, Jango, Fitfiend, Iqons, Dripbook, Peopleized, and general social media.

I have never heard of a number of these categories, so I’m off to read the entries and figure out what I need to know.

Steven featured three of my articles:

• “Social Media Networks: Entering the Third Dimension of Connectivity with Web 2.0″
• “Cause-Based Viral Marketing: How Your Nonprofit Can Maximize Social Networking Tools”
• “3 Common Mistakes in Using Listservs: Maximizing Time, Value, and Energy Among Users”

Nonprofit Exchange

Emily Weinberg’s Nonprofit Blog Exchange highlights the following categories: social networking/social media; blogging; creating websites, SEO, web analytics; photos, videos, online slideshows; giving, donating, and other nonprofit topics.

Emily featured my articles, “Using StumbleUpon to Enhance Your Web Experience and Drive Traffic to Your Webpage” and “Words of Advice for Beginning Bloggers” (linked above).

Learning from the Conversation

Take a look at all of these excellent articles and be on your way to building a better blog today.

I encourage you to take part in the blogging conversation, which is one of the best ways to share your ideas and forward the blogosphere as think tank model.

I am of the firm belief that blogging can lead to a better tomorrow. Don’t believe me? Try it and see what happens. There are a lot of amazing things going on now. I hope you will join me in improving our common future.

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