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It was back in April, 06 that I first got "blog-itis". Finally a technology that conformed to my need. I don't know why, but I've always "choked" when I try to write; but a blog post let me capture an insight without overwhelm (after all, you can always write another post). I started out with a copycat approach. I used my friends blog as a template. I took the easy road with Blogger. And then the fun began. I covered this journey in Birth of a Blog way back when. So today I just want to give props to the bloggers that gave me that critical guidance, resources and inspiration to get me going: Beth Kanter's Beth's Blog Allen Benamer's Non-Profit Tech: Confessions of an IT Director Michelle Murrain's Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Blog Michael Stein's Non-Profit Technology Blog Technorati Tags: Blogging , MetaBlog , Nonprofit , NPTech

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? by Pam Ashlund Tuesday I wrote about tagging, but it didn't answer one question: what is all that tagging supposed to achieve? Presumably it’s about categorization (for yourself and for the public), but more significantly it’s about attracting attention (pro’s call that “publicity”). OK, I admit it, I was perturbed by my Technorati ranking of 170,000, but today I read that they rank 57 million blogs, so maybe anything over a 1 million ain’t bad. LOL Amy Gahran in her blog “ Contentious ” has a great article deconstructing Technorati’s ranking methodology. Did I just use deconstructing and methodology in the same sentence? Maybe I need to lay off the coffee! Seriously folks, I’ll be here all weekend. Try the veal! But back to Amy…she asks: is “more” better? Using variables like “posting frequency”, “regional popularity” and “in-bound links” to measure popularity, authority and influence has it’s limitations. In high school, popularity had nothing to