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5 Proven Tips for Building Your Nonprofits Email List

NetWits

If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Clearly marked. With a call to action.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, Google documents allows you export and import pretty easily without too much reformating hell. I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. I'm not complaining.

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Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources

Tech Soup

Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Image: Aftab.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles. Leave a comment »

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. This will tell you a lot about reader satisfaction with your content. .

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Here's the google news stream that captures the news articles mostly from the mainstream media about this product. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream.

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up. The final list will be available over at the client's workspace on Omidyar, a wiki-like space. I thanked her.

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