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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Many non-tech people (i.e., people who aren't responsible for the technical decisions in your organization; all humans are tech people) will only tolerate a technical discussion if they can see immediately how it helps them. to get success stories.

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. How many people in your database have gone off the grid for 7+ years and then come back? I would hate for you to delete those records and lose all that data and institutional knowledge that you have been collecting along the way.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. The best interview questions should be: Relevant: focused on the required core competencies without relying on any "unknowable" or organization-specific information.

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

Tech Soup

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. I got the chance to present on a panel with three other people in an information session hosted by the U.S. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv.

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

Museum 2.0

In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information. It''s about the objects, the display, the people, the process, the event--the image of the experience. And of course, I use this blog as a reflective space to learn by writing.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” There’s another benefit. Minky Wordan , Global Initiatives Director.