Contribute

There are several important ways that you can contribute to Common Good Vermont.

  • Tag

    Share your knowledge—news, resources, events and listings—with the people and groups that you care about. Learn how.

  • Share

    Share links from this website with your colleagues and cohorts. Simply use “share” links found with each entry.

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Share Your Content: Tag It

We hope you will share your resources with Vermont's nonprofit community! The good news is that it is easy to make your content available to the folks who visit us here at Common Good Vermont.

Just add the tag npvt.* If you're already investing the time to blog, communicate via social media, bookmark your trusted resources, or post your organization's events, you can expand your reach with just a few simple steps.

Common Good Vermont continuously visits trusted websites and web services for information that we think will be relevant to you, and with a little effort from you, we can find your blog posts, upcoming events and trusted resources and bring them into this website so that we can all learn from each other.

If you use descriptive tags, then we'll know where exactly to put it on this site. It helps if you add additional tags to tell others why your web resource is valuable. At Common Good Vermont, we also look for topic tags (example: board development, fundraising, marketing), geography tags (example: Burlington, Addison County, Upper Valley) and sector tags (example: arts, youth, environment, religion).

If you think you have something to add—your organization's blog, upcoming events, or trusted resources—here's how to make that content available here at Common Good Vermont.

* The process for adding your blog posts to this website is slightly different—please see how to add your blog content.

How to Share Your Content

Calendar Events

We pull selected nonprofit events from Yahoo!'s Upcoming. It's simple to share your events with Common Good Vermont and the wider community using this free service:

  1. Sign-up for a Yahoo! ID, if you haven't already.
  2. Create your event(s).
  3. Be sure to tag each with npvt and any other relevant tags. (If they aren't tagged with npvt, we won't be able to find them.)
  4. Your events can then be searched on Upcoming and commongoodvt.org.
  5. Need help? See the Upcoming documentation.

Social Bookmarks

Many people save their favorite websites using "bookmarks" so they can refer to them later. Many of the resources that appear on this website are pulled from the bookmarking service Delicious.

When you save the websites and web pages that you find helpful, simply add the tag npvt. You'll find it useful for your own research and sharing purposes—and so will many of your nonprofit peers! Here's how:

  1. Sign-up for a Delicious account, if you haven't already.
  2. Bookmark the resources you find useful. Be sure to tag each with npvt and any other relevant tags. (If they aren't tagged with npvt, we won't be able to find them.)
  3. Need help? See the Delicious documentation.
  4. Learn more about social bookmarking from our friends at Common Craft.

Blogs

Unfortunately, simply tagging your posts npvt does not make your posts available on this website.

At the current time, we make available blog posts from blogs that we have found to be relevant because it covers nonprofit capacity and Vermont related news. If you think that you know of a blog that we should add (yours or someone else's), please let us know and we will include it!

Social Media

Currently, we follow individuals and organizations on Twitter that cover nonprofit capacity issues, Vermont news and national trends. If you think we missed a reliable sources, just let us know.

Photos and Video

Let us know if you have photos and video that you think others would find relevant. In particular, we'd like to know what service(s) you use so that we can prioritize integrating those services accordingly. You can always tag your photos and videos on third-party services such as Flickr with the npvt tag.

Have Other Content to Share?

This list certainly isn't all-encompasing, so let us know if there are other sources you think we should gather and share on this website.