Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv! That small community evolved into the organization – NTEN – the association for nonprofit techies. My work was as a trainer, to teach people who to use these tools strategically.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

Think about whether you want to be a sole practitioner, build a firm and eventually hire other employees, work for someone else, or form an association (tight or loose) with other consultants. networking through professional or social associations (consultants associations, Rotary, and associations that your potential clients participate in).

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. If you’re tracking a number of sources for a number of different campaigns, create a spreadsheet for your source codes to make sure you know what each is associated with. You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. The second network, Netsquared , in contrast was more loosely controlled with a lower risk in failure.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

. “The incidence of ALS is two per 100,000 people, and it is estimated that as many as 30,000 Americans may have the disease at any given time,” according to the ALS Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting. Despite working with George for over a year, we've never met in person.) People passed the message along and offered tons of advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. If your post has to do with your work or subjects associated with Easter Seals, use a disclaimer such as this: ???The I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Paul Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog. I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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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. An organization becomes strongly associated with a topic not just in people's minds but in search engines and that translates to more attention. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. The benefits? Well, attention is one.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Groups such as NTEN, TechSoup Global, NPower, and your regional nonprofit association may also be able to provide resources and guidance. In addition, the TechSoup Learning Center has a great resource designed to help nonprofits conduct needs assessments. Screening Candidates.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? Wendy: Part of the basis of trust is the fact that your name and your face is associated with your words. Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. Imagine museum maps in which you could hit a button that says “Toddlers,” or “Quiet Spaces,” or “Personal Narratives” and see all the places in the museum associated with that tag. We looked at the museum map on the wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World.

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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. Our Center's AZGates web-based knowledge platform is a free service that links grantmakers and grantseekers. Like this article? Get another!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then another way we can help build brand awareness for the organization through our role as a board member is to allow the use of your name associated with an organization. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. Would love to continue the conversation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And having those conversations in advance before just doing that will be very helpful and also thinking about what pivots or changes the organization needs to make as part of that planning process.

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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. Add to this the fact that many museums no longer offer the basic collections and research services associated with them historically, and the appeal of the word diminishes. But a center?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. What are you goals for using social media to support your organizing work?

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