NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside. Do you have to be an NTEN member to participate in a CoP?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

That’s not surprising since faith-based organizations are all about community. Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. When I asked the group at GEO what was keeping them up at night, it was remarkable how most of the issues raised were shared by so many of us around the table: How to explain the value of this work to our boards.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. The Technology Affinity Group. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Image 1: Technology Affinity Group logo. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. Many, many years ago, an administrator here apparently made a similar decision to delete an entire group of records from the database. A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Paul Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 21, 2007

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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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. The Technology Affinity Group. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Image 1: Technology Affinity Group logo. Hold a yearly conference.

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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. I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles. I followed people. I left status updates. I got the mobile app. Look who's currently sitting at #34.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option. There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Tim Davies - Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups Pros/Cons.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

To better our communities in 4 priority issue areas: energy/environment, education, health care, and community renewal. To develop creative, sustainable partnerships with nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, issue groups, labor unions, educational institutions, business corporations, foundations, and all levels of government.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Some stick and go “viral” while others just get shared with a small community of friends, and some go nowhere. Since most of these new donors are brand new to the ALS community and are learning about the disease for the first time, ALS organizations will need to quickly come up with an engagement plan.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The third post is an encouragement to know your community , and the fourth discusses the importance of timing in launching a community and running its programs. Communities take time to grow and needs change over time.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Recently, several subscribers to the RCAAM (Registrar’sCommittee of AAM) listserv posted concerns about professional photographers and museum visitors taking photographs of objects on exhibition. I encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. With users' increasing confidence in participating together online, there's never been a better time to take a leap and try a new tactic to engage a group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Nonprofits can use groups). The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. If so, it seems dubious that sponsored (read: billable) groups like Wal-Mart are welcome to market themselves despite intense community backlash.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. I received an email back stating that only individuals are allowed to create profiles, but that we were more than welcome to start a group (which we already have). Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. But looks that they are catching up, check out Burleigh Mountain's Channel , for example.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better? Once the call was 95% ready, Wes circulated it to a small group of existing museum partners and artists for feedback. Once the call was ready, Wes circulated it to even more museum partners, as well as to artist listservs and our general membership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

We are seeking volunteers from within the Second Life community to serve as jurors or to role play the parts of witnesses. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. Professor Nesson will serve as the judge in both trials. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. hard to use ?"

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

They have nearly 200 hundred fans on their Facebook pages and another 125 members on their LinkedIn group. They also plan to utilize Flickr to highlight photos of Purpose Prize winners making a difference in their communities, which will tie in nicely with their YouTube Channel.

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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. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group. memory lapses, had forgotten it.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And what we’re seeing is that while this is encouraging, the numbers are going up, nonprofit boards are still far from representing the communities that they serve. But only 70% of that group is. or actually 70% of that group is dissatisfied with the board’s racial composition. Okay, so positive trend.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Julie described the library's community as "economically depressed" and a place where the digital divide is real: most people only access the Internet from their phones. Julie Elmore is the library director of the Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library in Indiana and its only full-time employee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. If you have the chance to work with them or participate in the conference in the future I would highly recommend it, a great group of people. His post would be the perfect blog post. The conference was similar to NTEN???s and teach ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Check out this presentation " Cultivating Your Constituents Online " that was sent into the NpTech Group on Slideshare. and Katya A.

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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. As part of her job as Internet Marketing Manager in the Online Communications and Media department at the HSUS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. I read in the NTEN newsletter where there was call for Affinity Group Meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. communities as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Yes, one day was way too short and definitely small group interaction would also have been good, but there is next year! Rebecca MacKinnon has just posted a synthesis of the GV Global s Summit: Emergence of a Conversation Community. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. Next year in Nigeria?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. 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

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. Weblogs and the Nonprofit Sector.

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