Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

writing articles. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Build your list of references and qualifications, even if that requires doing pro bono or heavily discounted work. When projects end, ask clients to write testimonials and agree to serve as references. Figure out how you will market your work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. Wikis are just great for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds. changing habits is another story).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. The article has some quotes from Rebecca Nesson, daughter of Berkman Center founder, Charles Nesson. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. I'm embargoed from saying much more, but pretty soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Here's the google news stream that captures the news articles mostly from the mainstream media about this product. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month. Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. In the NpTech space, Idealware , NTEN , and Techsoup are always mentioned, with pointers to specific articles or reports.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you!

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See3

APRIL 22, 2009

When I left my position at Easter Seals , I had seven-plus years of research covering the field of nonprofits online flowing (more like gushing) in daily via email newsletters, listserve digests, etc. NPAdvisors e-Fund News: Thought provoking weekly articles on online donor development written by Rick Christ and Heather Fignar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I While some of the techniques and strategies described in articles by colleagues in here in the US may translate to other cultures, the payment system evaluation reports don't necessarily do. So, ramble along with me as I think outloud.and blog it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Use a template : Ask your state library if it has a template, or ask other librarians if they have a template you can use by way of a listserv (such as ARSL) or Facebook group. We also highly recommend checking out TechSoup's comprehensive list of how-tos and articles , which cover everything from networking to Internet safety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

" It isn't totally automated, there is some filtering function - as Robin Good identified in this article about NewsMastering. Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. Steve Rubel called them "Aggregators." Online it's not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0: Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.). listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Content – a focus on capturing and publishing what the community learns and knows (i.e. Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. This article was originally published at [link] and is reprinted by permission. Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. Someone offered me a pointer to this article about information foraging theory. I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. A Few Web2.0 tools in their web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. As part of her job as Internet Marketing Manager in the Online Communications and Media department at the HSUS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

There are 18 articles. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. To that end, CompuMentor/TechSoup has produced a lot of articles on blogging and related technologies like RSS and podcasting. Note: Here are some links to few of Marnie's articles on TechSoup: Weblogs: The Promise for Nonprofit Organizations. Is your ext337.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. I did a post about You Tube breaking my validation recently, and there are some good links later in the article about embedding flash easily (and accessibily too!): [link] Does Typepad have any neat little plug ins for this or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

" Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article. He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences? There is something about stewardship in that quote, I think. Personally I think I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Sites/Blogs about blogging as an instructional tool: Weblogs in the Classroom provides links to articles, tools and examples. Reference the source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Her articles are informative, well written, and provide good context. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. Take for example her write up on Games for Change. This would make a great blog post!???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Publish brief articles about your selected topic on a consistent basis. New articles appear at the top, so your visitors can easily read what???s or response to your article, while others may link to it or email you privately. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link].

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. Post a Comment | by Share Article in Online Organizing Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

Beyond the Center, there are also dozens of listservs, blogs, and electronic "hallways" devoted to philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and management, volunteerism, and other facets of the social sector. Like this article? Our Center's AZGates web-based knowledge platform is a free service that links grantmakers and grantseekers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. Here's another article describes the issues.). This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. big three??? GetActive???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! My aussie blogger friend Dave Wallace pointed me to this article from Micro Persuasion: The Imminent Death of the Page View. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Now, let's enter into the land of paradigm shifts.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. In the example of the Paley Center, the NY Times article continues: Moreover, the name was somewhat misleading: some patrons would arrive expecting to see, say, Archie Bunker’s chair.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. But people who read a listserv aren't necessarily incentivized to contribute to the wiki. Since Wikipedia has so much content, that's fine--you don't need an outline of the articles to find what you want. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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