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5 Proven Tips for Building Your Nonprofits Email List

NetWits

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. But that’s not the case. In fact, email is still the number-one way to connect with your supporters.

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What, Why, and How of Facebook Pages: An Expertise Roundup from Mari Smith, Jesse Stay, Collin Douma, and Others

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. I also searched around for some additional advice on Facebook Pages and I've summarized the key points below: Why have a Facebook Page? Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

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 have to keep clicking "Show Older" and I haven't figured out how to search for a specific update that appeared on my profile at some point. It doesn't auto-update.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Openness - ????A

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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. You might also consider throwing in some key words to make sure you show up in searches.

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Research Friday: A Case for Content Curation

ASU Lodestar Center

Where do nonprofit leaders, managers, volunteers, donors, and other stakeholders go when searching for information pertinent to their roles? Beyond the Center, there are also dozens of listservs, blogs, and electronic "hallways" devoted to philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and management, volunteerism, and other facets of the social sector.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. The content that I cover in the screencast, btw, is a quick peek at two Facebook apps. WFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. That's the only thing missing. Yet to be created).

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