Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

A great big thank you to Ryan over at PICnet for this hack -- I can now move my NTEN Affinity Groups emails over the reader. Photo by SCFiasco on Flickr. This, of course, assumes that haven't reaced the point of RSS reader overload and I can successfully shift my email reading habit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. I met with the group last week. Rosie will give you another group's notecard and you will need to go and look for their box. If there is time there will be more boxes to search for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group.

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Learning Seattle Knowledge Management Evaluation 92

Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. The Technology Affinity Group. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Image 1: Technology Affinity Group logo. Hold a yearly conference.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. Many, many years ago, an administrator here apparently made a similar decision to delete an entire group of records from the database. A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The way I learned was through working with peer group of people who were supporting nonprofits in their quest to build capacity and skills using the Internet to realize their missions. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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Social Media Learning Community Media 102

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 21, 2007

Folks have set up, in addition to the traditional listservs, an online channel for the Bookshare.org community that allows both voice chat and text messaging in a way that is highly accessible to people with disability. I love technology for its own sake, but it's always good to experience how technology promotes connections among people!

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Online Teen Listserv Course 100

AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. Conference organizers need to be prepared with a virtual event format that works with their group. They also need to establish rules, chosen vendors, and sponsors. .

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

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. I find myself clicking between "Home" "Profile" "Chatter" and "Groups," all which look similar but have different content.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

participation in online discussion groups. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Figure out how you will market your work. Options include. writing articles. publishing a newsletter. public speaking. business cards. volunteer work. networking at conferences and workshops. online and print advertising.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. The Technology Affinity Group. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Image 1: Technology Affinity Group logo. Hold a yearly conference.

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Foundation Resource Technology Listserv 36

NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds). Start thinking about success stories that you can share with your organization. to get success stories. is going end-of-life!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option. There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Tim Davies - Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups Pros/Cons.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Recently, several subscribers to the RCAAM (Registrar’sCommittee of AAM) listserv posted concerns about professional photographers and museum visitors taking photographs of objects on exhibition. I encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question.

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Accessibility Open Museum North Carolina 44

NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We want you to know that we've heard you, and we want to quell any fears about the loss of the NTEN Discuss list (it is not going away) or the many valuable resources that have been collected in various Affinity Groups (also, definitely not going away). Can there be more than one group leader? Where does the CoP “live”?

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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. For example, a few in google groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

To develop creative, sustainable partnerships with nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, issue groups, labor unions, educational institutions, business corporations, foundations, and all levels of government. Any individuals/group/family can register their project. You don't need to be an organization to do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

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. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. With users' increasing confidence in participating together online, there's never been a better time to take a leap and try a new tactic to engage a group.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. The group has an informal oversight Board run by one of the member CIOs. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Collaboration New Hampshire Classroom NGO 75

Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

As nonprofit strategist Ted Fickes said on a nonprofit listserv, “the ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice, law enforcement groups raising money for police charities, etc.”

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But an animal welfare group never archives records because the elderly woman with 15 cats who gave $20 ten years ago may leave them her entire estate. After talking with some clients, it seems opinions vary wildly regarding this subject. I just wanted to see if you had any insight you could offer regarding this subject. Others Who Agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. ” Since the strategy has been in place, many HRW staff as a group engaging on Twitter has lead to impressive results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. I received an email back stating that only individuals are allowed to create profiles, but that we were more than welcome to start a group (which we already have). Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Nonprofits can use groups). The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. If so, it seems dubious that sponsored (read: billable) groups like Wal-Mart are welcome to market themselves despite intense community backlash.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur.

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Social Network Network Social Change 69

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Big visions often mean higher likelihood of disappointment.

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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. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group. memory lapses, had forgotten it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Once the call was 95% ready, Wes circulated it to a small group of existing museum partners and artists for feedback. Their input helped us get to 100%, and it created a group of invested collaborators who were ready to help spread the word once the call was live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Whether podcasting or maintaining a website, the amount of content you create makes your Groundswell Social Technographic group a valuable target for social media marketers. With all the blogging and video making you do, I'm surprised you had time to take this quiz. As a creator, you join an elite 18% of the US online population.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

They have nearly 200 hundred fans on their Facebook pages and another 125 members on their LinkedIn group. Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters. Our social media strategy aims to complement our print and online advertising strategy.

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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. You might need to tweak your goals as you go. Here is the template (automatic download) that Julie used from the Indiana State Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Check out this presentation " Cultivating Your Constituents Online " that was sent into the NpTech Group on Slideshare. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. The first thing we did was create a group dedicated to the seal hunt. What kind of experiments did you do first?

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