October 8, 2003

Nonprofit weblogs redux

Christian Crumlish

I just tweaked up my post about weblog strategies for nonprofits from last Friday (although I still haven't discussed it with Dave Pollard, as I was planning to do), and submitted my proposal to CompuMentor. I really enjoyed the exercise of thinking through how nonprofits can use weblogs (and syndication, and aggregration) and how a nonprofit like CompuMentor could spur along the inevitable evolution of a niche blogosphere of nonprofits and other progressive organizations.

Posted by xian at October 8, 2003 12:18 PM
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