Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

networking at conferences and workshops. being a conference sponsor or exhibitor. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Options include. writing articles. publishing a newsletter. public speaking. business cards. participation in online discussion groups. volunteer work. online and print advertising.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Skype — Free VOIP calls, conference calls, and video calls: [link]. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use). — Free anti-virus for home use: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. I've attended the Games for Change conference for the past couple years and it is an amazing community. For detailed info see here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Nonprofit + Conference produced less than 100 resources.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

On my way back from the Convio conference last month, I sat next to a woman who was knitting. Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. Lesson learned: If the project isn’t something you love, don’t do it. And it’s okay to admit it’s not working and start something else.

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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. Hold a yearly conference. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm working on a small research project for a client to develop a list of conferences where someone who works with and for nonprofits might attend or speak. I'm specifically looking for conferences in these general theme areas: Nonprofit. Nonprofit Technology. Technology. Social Change. Social Enterprise. The work in progress is here.

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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). And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. to get success stories.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

It's the beginning of Day 2 at Dreamforce , the gigantic Salesforce user conference in San Francisco. 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 didn't get much out of yesterday's keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. To challenge my set ways of doing traditional Internet research (are ya laughing now Gavin?), The key for me was: I???d person in the know??? so to speak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

While I was at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service this week, I went to a session about United We Serve with Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director, White House Office of Public Engagement, and Carlos Monje, Senior Policy Advisor, White House Domestic Policy Counsel. Share your story about your summer service project.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I just got back from 3 fabulous days in Baltimore at the Convio Summit user conference. 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. I am so excited about the direction Convio is taking with Common Ground.

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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. s ( www.cisa.asn.au ) nonprofit technology conference and to present a series of workshops for nonprofit leaders about technology. Doug and his staff put together a great conference and the series of workshops in three cities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. 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.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008. 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. Blog about the event before, during, and after. And then Tweet about your blog posts on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference by Julia Smith. What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I also have two kids that many of you have seen at conferences, most memorably when my then 6 month old, in perfect Exorcist form, spit up an incredible volume of curdled milk during an N-TEN Conference presentation. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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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. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. " Nonprofits and Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. Technology for Communities project. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

John Kenyon was also at the LASA Circuit Riders Conference in Birmingham with me earlier this month. The NTC Conference is a little more than two months away and I'm really looking forward to conversations with colleagues and meeting others face-to-face for the first time. Where do I find more information?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London. It was also a success in terms of an "intermediated conference" between the people who were in real-time, physical space and the virtual participants who were on the IRC or video conference connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. Grassroots.org blog reports on the recent National Media Reform Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. But at least they were preserved) An early video from the Riders Conference in Kansas City in 2000 was discovered on Blip.TV. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

I need to get my act together for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK and a session I'm doing with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here.

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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. At this year's NTEN conference , the thing I heard the most had to do with message. Going to conferences is a part of my job. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. By that I mean that they should expose themselves online.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2007

I've always had chat as a back channel to a conference call and used it to summarize key points as a sort of electronic flip chart. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This This would make a great blog post!???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. Conference Note Taking.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. 60) Search « The Great Debate: DM vs. Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy.

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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. Attend conferences. One which they may not is LS-TECH, the tech listserv for legal services, which is quite a large slice of the national nonprofit sector. Build this into your time and budget plans.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

a conference). We used a wiki to document all of the sessions so that after the conference, participants (and people who weren't able to come) could access the notes from session they missed. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. The wiki has to be the best tool for the job.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. Curate your event notes and materials : "We encourage our speakers and our attendees to share their conference materials and notes. We also reinforce the conference tag. I've also.

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