blogging your nonprofit career
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BLOGGING YOUR NONPROFIT CAREER ON WORDPRESS
C A R O LY N M . A P P L E T O N , C F R E
W O R D P R E S S D A Y 2 0 1 5
A U S T I N C O N V E N T I O N C E N T E R
2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference CNN Center, Atlanta
- Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic with Holly Ross -
“Beginnings are the hardest part. Getting started, going from nothing to something,
can be difficult, and it is no small feat.”
J.D. Rucker, Sochable
Hater
“Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy.
The hater doesn’t really want to be the person he or she hates,
rather the hater wants to knock someone else down a notch.”
Urban Dictionary
“You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.”
Billie Holiday
Your Blog is Your Legacy
Tell stories with accuracy
Choose appropriate stories and leave others to memory
Handle storytelling gracefully
Give credit where credit is due
Polish before publishing, then again later, as needed
But don’t be afraid to tell the truth
The truth from your point of view
is what is interesting to your audience.
“Think of your content as a single light in a dark forest … If you can get more people to turn on identical lights, the cumulative brightness will increase, and
you'll be able to attract more people from greater distances.”
Jayson DeMers, Search Engine Watch (August, 2014)
Thank you!
Carolyn M. Appleton, CFRE
Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog:
carolynmappleton.com
512-954-4477