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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.

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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. One trick you can do is search by combination of tags by adding the "+" between tags.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. Google Talk — An alternative to Skype, but only for 1 to 1 calls: [link]. — Free anti-virus for home use: [link].

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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 am also eager to test out some of the tools and ideas I learned about social search during the Yi-Tan call. I was most curious about ChaCha - a search engine that lets you search with human help.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

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 have to keep clicking "Show Older" and I haven't figured out how to search for a specific update that appeared on my profile at some point. It doesn't auto-update.

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RSS As Information Coping Tool

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 also use Google desktop search and search when I need to retrieve. I just set up a few as tests.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. The meme then spread to France and the US, and was picked up by media such as Mashable, Huffington Post, MSNBC, ABC, etc.

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