Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

Cindy, one of our volunteers, shared the following on our volunteer listserv (and she said it better than I could!): The opening episode, two hours, of Extreme Makeover, Home Edition, features the home and family of one of our bookshare members and active volunteers, Vic Llanes. The show is this Sunday, from 8-10 p.m.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Activities and events within data objects can automatically leave Chatter posts. 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. You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall).

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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. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Says Jim Murphy, “In the early days of Twitter, our Executive Director, Ken Roth , was an early adopter is still active on Twitter.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle. When I fell “asleep,” knitting was a different world. Now there’s so much for knitters online, it’s hard to grasp it all. Now, there’s podcasts, blogs and knitting social networks. There’s a waiting list to get in.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. Builds stronger connections with members of the media and legislators who are active on social networks. Connects people who are passionate about similar issues to each other.

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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. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

There is also the use of social media tools (and online collaboration tools) to support inward facing work, including online groups, communities of practice, and internal coordination or learning activities of organizations working as pure networks. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Here's a description of the series: As media, politics, and civic activity shift online, a new cadre of opinion leaders is stepping forward to shape public discourse about nature protection and pollution control. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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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. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Activity on your Page helps increase ??? Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option. viral visibility ???

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. This is any activity that builds on the relationship with the prospect, creating forward momentum toward the gift expectancy. Cultivation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2006

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" After answering the Myers-Briggs like questions about my actual activity, ta da, I'm a creator! I've noticed this in the nptech stream, we have conversations scattered in listservs, forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social media nooks and crannies. created a quiz.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The whole of this activity should take place within Boracay, meet in the Piazza ( [link] ). The next level is looking at the particularly collaborative activity -- how do we use the enviroment or the virtualness to collaborative together. On the third level, is to look at the various tools in Second Life and match them the activities.

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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. This has been narrowed to a focus on Twitter since that is where the most activity is concentrated at the moment. So, I suppose the moral is to have a profile, be active with updating and to be selective when building your feed.

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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. The front page combines several active feeds from our editors in a side bar and the news page takes a feed fom the local council and the ict page takes a feed from the local Digital Challenge blog.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Once the call was ready, Wes circulated it to even more museum partners, as well as to artist listservs and our general membership. All of these activities involve ongoing collaboration and co-creation with people beyond the staff member(s) responsible. Developing new staff policies. Prototyping all gender bathrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Figure out which two or three activities best meet your community's goals, and focus your energies on them. I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

Our mid-level fundraising listserv has more than 200 active participants. Make a communications plan for your midlevels in which cultivation touches outweigh solicitations, in which saying thank you comes early and often, and which recognizes your donors’ special status 100% of the time. Parting Word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. I'm so behind!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date. Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. You must read this post about blogging and low-cost nonprofit professional development.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. and yet many museum professionals look benevolently upon that activity as a positive meaning-making visitor experience. This is prejudicial treatment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

If you want to get involved in the planning for the event or other activities geared for nonprofits, join the Google Group here. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. The TechSoup group is collaborating on a directory of nonprofits and we want to make sure your organization is included.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. Once enough people "validate" (vote for) the project, it becomes active and visible to anyone using the SpeedGranting application. I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post.

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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. Frankly, I'm most interested in blogging as a gateway activity to a whole series of sharing that can happen online. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. By that I mean that they should expose themselves online. The benefits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons. David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

You need lots of active users to make a support forum work. Charlene and Josh say the average business should expect one to five percent of customers to participate in support forums, with the actual figure coming down to how much people care about the products and how active they are as participants in social technology.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. Something active. Next, we wanted to see “Connections,” an exhibition on networks. We looked at the museum map on the wall. It had considerably fewer than 1.3 million nodes. And we could not figure it out.

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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. It is the masterful use of a shared white board to move people from being consumers of a meeting to being active participants. How can we take advantage of the medium of Second Life? I keep coming back to damn virtual flip chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

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. " He was describing this activity. I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment. Does it make me think of a person?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

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. You can do it physically at an in-person event like a conference. Think back on the WikiDemo example. He had the right people, but not the right time.

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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. The Exploratorium did it--and spawned off many "wondariums" and "discoveriums" trying to tie into the same spirit of activity and invention that makes the original a success. Sony Wonderlab?

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