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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework.

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Nonprofit Online eNewsletters I Can’t Live Without

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When I left my position at Easter Seals , I had seven-plus years of research covering the field of nonprofits online flowing (more like gushing) in daily via email newsletters, listserve digests, etc. NPAdvisors e-Fund News: Thought provoking weekly articles on online donor development written by Rick Christ and Heather Fignar.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good? 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. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Go vote here.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I'd like to get some funds or a partner to do some research on this question. To get a more than anecdotal snapshot of the nonprofit blogosphere and identify the benefits, challenges, successes and lessons. Time is also a barrier.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions? We see this as part of the network of sites that NSF is funding for informal science education. We're not under the illusion that some fields like "what went wrong" and "lessons learned" will be places where we get 100% honesty.

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. If we really want social media tools to be integrated into our work, we need to figure out new ways to fund staffing for them. One without the other is never as effective.