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I’ll be blogging the 2010 ARNOVA conference
Nov 16th
This week I’ll be blogging at the 2010 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) annual conference. I am excited about this opportunity to report on the latest research studies and emergent theories in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector.
ARNOVA’s adhoc social media committee (John Ronquillo, Lindsey McDougle, Debra Beck, Taylor Peyton Roberts, and I) have been hard at work this year trying promote social media within ARNOVA. We are opening the door…very slowly, since there is a strong culture of hesitation and concern about social media in the world of academia.
Our social media objectives are to:
- Build awareness of ARNOVA.
- Promote ARNOVA membership and the work of individual sections within ARNOVA.
- Highlight new research articles, briefs, and books by ARNOVA members.
- Market new ARNOVA initiatives.
We should be really called the adhoc marketing committee, because that is what we are really doing. Providing free marketing to the association. 
The adhoc social media committee will be hosting a colloquy to discuss the future direction of ARNOVA’s social media efforts. We’d like to ePlease share with us through twitter, facebook, or by commenting on this blog about how social media has impacted your interactions with ARNOVA. Our goal is to encourage the board to create a permanent social committee to support the work of ARNOVA.
Countdown to the Independent Sector Conference
Oct 14th
Next week (Oct. 23-36) I’ll be leading the “Twitter/blog Squad” for the NGen portion of the Independent Sector conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Bloggers include:
Kathrin Ivanovic @kathrinoutloud
Tera Quails @terawozqualls
Emily Yu @dcxchange
Heather Carpenter @heathercarpente
Monica Montgomery @urbanmomentum
Mike Goorhouse
Tweeters include:
Scott Beale @atlascorps
Stephen Bauer @stephenbauer
Kristin Campbell @isngen @kcambell
Rusty Stahl @rustystahl @epipnational
Maya Enista @menista @mob_org
Andy Ho @andyho
Scott Bechtler-Levin @ideaencore
Be sure to check out our blog posts at: http://www.independentsector.org/blog and our twitter updates #isngen (Main conference tweets #isconf)
Don’t start your own blog: start a group blog instead.
Sep 13th
When I started blogging in 2006 (wow, that seems so long ago) few people were blogging in the nonprofit sector. I REALLY lucked out because my blog gained popularity fast. Now there are hundreds of nonprofit blogs (maybe thousands) all vying for people’s attention on the web. It is overwhelming to see the vast amount of nonprofit blog content on the web!
Rosetta Thurman one of the BEST bloggers in the nonprofit sector just completed a 30 days of blogging challenge for young nonprofit professionals and has a how to blogging toolkit on her website. She and her millennial colleagues also launched the Nonprofit Millennial Blogger Alliance.
A few years ago I said to the people that I met, yes, start a blog it’s great for increasing your reputation in the sector!! Now, I advise people against starting their own individual blog.Reason being, unless you are willing to devote A LOT of time to promoting your blog by linking to other people’s blogs and commenting on other blogs, then I would advise against starting your own nonprofit blog.
I think starting a blog with a group of people or writing a guest blog post for an established blog (like this one) is a better solution. It now takes a lot longer to build up your reputation as a blogger (since many people are doing it).A group blog also provides more credibility and also allows people to read different perspectives on the same topic—that is one of the reasons the Tactical Philanthropy blog is so popular.It’s not all Sean Stannard-Stockton’s writing, it’s a blog community.Additionally, guest blogging gives you opportunity to reach a lot of readers quickly.Otherwise, if you start a blog and write a really great post, few people will actually see the post (again, unless you are REALLY good at promoting that post).
Do any of my established nonprofit blogger friends want to weigh in on this topic?Do you agree or disagree?Would you still advise people to start their own nonprofit blog?
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