Did you catch the buzz? Today is Blog Action Day, when bloggers around the world are asked to bring attention to one social issue. Last year it was the environment; this year, it's poverty. It's the kind of easy feel-good meme that the Internet loves -- and that can reward participating blogs with a boost in web traffic -- but what are the ...

Social media and social networking are hot buzzwords in the world of online marketing, but what do they mean in practical terms? Is social media marketing just a passing fad, or could it be a worthwhile strategy for your organization? In a survey done by Collactive of close to 200 organizations, those with a successful social media strategy ...

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com. Think your nonprofit organization has no need for a blog? You may want to think again. According to Technorati, more than 10,500 blogs were tagged charity, 4,000 blogs nonprofit and 2,300 blogs philanthropy in January of 2007 and these numbers are ...

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Colt Lapham from TicketPrinting.com Overview Every nonprofit knows that fundraisers are critical to their existence.  Without donations, no resources are available to support the primary cause or purpose of the organization.  While most traditional media channels have been ...

The folks at CommonCraft have done it again. They have released a video that describes Blogs in Plain English. In the video, Lee and Sachi LeFever explain what blogs are, helping those who want to understand why and how a blog works. It’s a good watch for those who have a simple, basic idea about what blogs are and a good ...

I want to recommend to you a book I just finished reading. The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch. There was also an interesting interview with Read/Write Web's Sean Ammirati that's worth listening to. After reading the book, I picked up some good tips that I could apply to our blog and some other parts that kinda ...

 Michael Sola is the Director of Information Technology of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), a nonprofit dedicated to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. For the past 6 months, Michael Sola has been blogging as part of the organization's larger communications strategy. We caught up with ...

Britt Bravo of Have Fun * Do Good has an excellent post about using the social web for social change. In the nonprofit sector, online activism has become much more than sending an email to Congress or making a donation. Organizations today are engaging their constituents to upload pictures, text and videos and share their ...

Did you know that most visitors leave a website within 10 seconds of landing on the home page? And they may never return to the same site. What's worse is going though all the trouble of creating a professional association web site that nobody comes to visit! To keep your website visitors stay longer, you need to engage them. Here are 8 free ...

Michel Martin over at the Bamboo Project Blog is doing great work with blogging lately. Last month, she participated in Problogger's 31 Days To Build A Better Blog challenge and shared some useful results. After wrapping up the challenge, she decided to keep it going by setting up a community at Ning. ''We are a community of bloggers ...