Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. Laura has been working in the software sector for nearly 20 years. Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn. You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Over the last couple of years, our IT Staffing reports have found that nonprofits are hosting their own software and services less and less. Most are outsourcing website, email, and listserv hosting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I've gotten too many messages from colleagues that have the subject line "Do We Read The Same Books" and it encourages you to sign up for a social software called Shelfari. The "bacn" from this program was sent to a listserv, and it annoyed people on the list.

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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. Kiosk software, such as Deep Freeze , can bring a public access computer back to its factory state if somebody installs a bunch of junk software on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go.

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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). On the other hand, explaining to her that, "The computer that runs our website has some really old software on it; we need to fix it.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. Our latest opportunity was on February 13 2013.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. 6) Sign-up for donated software from TechSoup and Idealware. No nonprofit should be going it alone and buying software and hardware retail. 8) Rent your software on-line. This may especially be true for donated hardware, software, and even consulting services.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

But this is simple, included with Salesforce, and doesn't require special software to read/use the data. Join NPSF Bit of a shameless plug as I've been co-moderator of the Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv for a couple of years now. There are other tools for backing up Salesforce data that are far more robust.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Use video, audio, or text--all work well. The Center for Global Development does this a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing?

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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. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. I'm not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of CAMT, there's post on their blog about a giveaway by Members Only Software. Nonprofit Tech Software + Mobile Phones = Citizen reporting? Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Why is Peter Gulka drinking the Saleforce koolaid ?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. Judi is currently Vice President of Operations of Fight Colorectal Cancer , an organization she helped start in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

For example, this nonprofit marketer shares his decision about choosing a software tool in light of the recent acquisitions in the market. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

I didn't know the software like the back of my hand. I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples. Now comes the reflection on the process, the craft of screencasting. And, to make it more daunting, I'm hardly a database expert.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

After determining the key stakeholders that should be involved in making the hire, gather their visions for the role by asking them questions such as: What hardware, software, communications, and technology-driven systems do we need to function across all of our programs and departments? Screening Candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. When you try to move data from online fundraising software into your fundraising or volunteer database, it isn't a one-click process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. When we facilitate synchronously we not only have to manage the software, the domain of the conversation, but we also are working to legitimately request and get the attention of participants who, for the most part, we cannot see.

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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. I buy my software (for clients) at techsoup.org and ccb nonprofits (the latter sell Adobe products and hardware). I attend user group meetings, especially where applications of software I use is demo’d.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinar series, we are also a provider of donor management software. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. Definitely, my favorite thing because I’m the host. That’s what Bloomerang is.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. But once a week, we have a great speaker. Today is by no means an exception. We love doing these webinars. So check that out. If you’re interested, you can visit our website. But don’t do that right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

It's touted as one of the Web's best examples of social media software. See Amy Gahran's advice : I also started an affinity group (listserv) over at N-TEN called Flickr for Nonprofits. You could pay for banal photo stock, but there is another option. And, depending on the license, you are free to use many of them.

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