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. It's real-time and easy and personal. 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.

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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. The project grew out of the Council on Foundations and led by one part-time staff person, executive director Lisa Pool. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said." Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Once you???ve

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Each CoP has space in the NTEN groups platform ([link] You can search for current CoP’s by entering “CoP” in the search bar on the upper right hand corner of your browser window. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Where does the CoP “live”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said." Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Once you???ve

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. The benefit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. We put our resources into creating that profile as a way to put a personal touch to those issues as 500 "real" people on his friends list. to open its profiles to Google search.

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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. Easter Seals staff and volunteers are personally responsible for their posts. s popularity rating on blog search engines like Technorati. Respect Privacy of Others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. You might also consider throwing in some key words to make sure you show up in searches.

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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. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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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. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. ll search my own blog to get that reference." Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati is very easy to use, no more difficult than typing in a few words and hitting search button. So, now is the fun part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

If there is time there will be more boxes to search for. He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences? Personally I think I???ve If you have problems IM Rosie Luna and Futura Fortas.

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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. org your personal professional blog or is blogging a part of your job at Compumentor? The benefits?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Remember to include both hard skills (specific knowledge and technical qualifications) and soft skills (behavioral characteristics, personality traits, and attributes of work style). In fact, approximately 75% of nonprofit jobs are filled by strong candidates before the search ever becomes public. Initial in-person interview.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If I'm developing an exhibition, I may start at ExhibitFiles and then contact the person directly. It will be really interesting to see how the human side evolves--when you see something you question, do you write a comment, call up the person, or.? I think a cool thing is that we took a fair amount of push on the personal profiles.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Human contact is hard to come by, and while websites and phone systems provide the basics, there are many visitors with complex questions—often more interesting questions—who are turned away by the frustrating inability to reach a real person. What if that real person was another visitor?

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. If there are 15 people in the office, I say ‘hi’ as I pass down the hall, chat for a minute with one person or maybe two, and get into my office to work. Attend conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

another person Vicki tagged was Doug Johnson , author of the Indispensable Teacher's Guide To Computer Skills. I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. Does it make me think of a person?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

My second example is more personal and slightly embarrassing. You can do it physically at an in-person event like a conference. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. But people who read a listserv aren't necessarily incentivized to contribute to the wiki.

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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. I have a personal aversion to the word Center. But beyond my personal association, I think Center suffers from the fact that there's no public concept of what a center is.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

about what he ate for breakfast or one of his personal passions, basketball. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. Salesforce Content: "How much time have you wasted searching for presentations, thank you. And, he isn't tweeting. I've also.

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