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Don't Register for Shelfari: It Spams Your Address Book

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Booksharian Heroes Hit 40,000

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare.org just hit a milestone by reaching 40,000 accessible books in our collection. This is always a cause for celebration by our team, recognizing the incredible amount of work involved in bringing each book to our Bookshare.org members by our volunteers and collection development staff. She Turns on her computer.

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Harry Potter all-night online party

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We've been getting regular updates from our volunteer scanning crew, who have chopped, scanned, OCR'd, paginated and are now doing the final prep work to release the newest Harry Potter book to the Bookshare.org community. Within the hour, it should be available for download. Good design is universal!

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All You Need To Know About Virtual Conferences

AccelEvents

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. Without having to book flights or a place to stay for multiple nights, a virtual experience can be far more attractive to a far larger number of people. .

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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

December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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

NTEN

In that scenario, nonprofit workers feel like technology is something they have to deal with to do the "real work," not something that can make their work lives and their organization better at meeting its mission (which is what NTEN believes, so strongly they wrote a book about it ). to get success stories. is going end-of-life!"

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Groundswell Book Club Part 4: Customer Support

Museum 2.0

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing usercontent.

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