NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

AASP''s listserv, Fundsvcs, won the grand prize in the 2013-2014 LISTSERV Choice Awards. OneJustice is profiling their inspiring volunteer Justice Bus Riders who log long hours by bus to provide legal assistance to rural communities. Cloud community member member news member roundup nptech nten Communications'

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. But which platform is best for your group? It could get unwieldy quickly.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Giving back to the local community that physically hosts the NTEN Community through NTC Days of Service expresses a guiding value of the annual event. Throughout the 15NTC, there will be volunteer opportunities to engage and share the community''s skills with Austin, TX area nonprofits.

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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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NTEN

MAY 12, 2015

From building a movement to groundtruthing an organization's policies, a listserv can be a powerful tool for a revolution within and beyond an organization. I am a big fan of email listservs. Adonia Lugo. Bicicultures. They can be a great tool to bring together people virtually who will not cross paths in life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Games for Change is looking to hire a community manager to manage a variety of online projects, primarily the Knowledge Network. This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv! That small community evolved into the organization – NTEN – the association for nonprofit techies. Develop new programs and resources for NTEN’s growing community.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

This email type is sent with the usual goals of acquiring, recruiting, informing, or welcoming new subscribers to your organization’s email listserv. Promotional emails can be sent to a wide variety of people, including current subscribers, donors, community partners, and other stakeholders.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Whether it’s on listservs, forums, blogs, facebook, twitter or anywhere else – there are so many people looking to foster open dialogue on issues important to and impacting the work of changemakers, activists and innovators around the world.

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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. Community Media Workshop???s Who on staff is the "community manager"?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. What does it mean for community change?"

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundations need tech support as much as anyone.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

Add This: A widget that allows website visitors to share your content via 50 social networks and bookmark communities. Spend 15 minutes a day talking to the community and cross promoting your campaigns, news, etc. Pick Two Social Networks: My two favorite social networks are Twitter and Facebook (Fanpages).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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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. We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group. Just let me know and I’ll put you on the list.

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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.

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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. From my view, this is what the web should help us do: become a global learning community. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Add This: A widget that allows website visitors to share your content via 50 social networks and bookmark communities. Spend 15 minutes a day talking to the community and cross promoting your campaigns, news, etc. Pick Two Social Networks: My two favorite social networks are Twitter and Facebook (Fanpages).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." " Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” This is where that online community you’ve worked so hard to build is going to prove its value. Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Close the loop.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records. The original question: My organization is working on a data retention policy and wondering if others have insights to share.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2008

Reading our volunteer email listserv this morning, I came across lyrics to a song about our volunteer community. 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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. Although the community couldn't visit their usual haunts on techsoup.org, they could still keep up with TechSoup online.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundations need tech support as much as anyone.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Organizers in local community own the agenda. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. -Local connections built through engagement. Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

individuals who make their mark on community opinion through participation on blogs, listservs, social networking and bookmarking sites, and other online forums where people gather to exchange news and views. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ??? s the link to the kickoff post.

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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. Contact the Corporation for National and Community Service about how to get engaged by emailing serviceinitiative@cns.gov.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

At the same time, we might think about how these tools might be used inside our field in the context of professional development and building communities of practice. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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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. From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it.

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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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