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. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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Volunteer Data San Francisco Listserv 59

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. My blog post generated a referral. Wow, better than a listserv!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. In today’s connected world, using social as yourself rather than hiding behind the organization’s trust can generate more engagement and trust that leads to more impact.

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Case Study Central African Republic Twitter Personal 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. What I think is really key as Ivan points out is the lack of a generational divide in getting buy-in from the organization's leadership.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

How much did they generate in gross income in the past fiscal year? A typical situation might be that mid-level donors represent less than 5% of your donor base, but generate 15-20% of your income. Our mid-level fundraising listserv has more than 200 active participants. Parting Word. One final piece of advice: Use a lifeline.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Aside from online paid advertising, Civic Ventures’ Campaign team is using social media to reach new people and generate more applications this year. Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters. Ten people are awarded the prize yearly.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

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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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. This campaign was generated to as a unique way to get people involved in taking action against the Canadian seal hunt. tools for online advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments? Insight Harvesting: What is the style of the writing?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. A great shot of your institution, shared on Flickr, serves as a free piece of marketing that may generate ticket sales.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Generation. " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Commentary on the data here. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. My experiment with user-generated content is here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. I talked with Kathy Kraft, a fairly frequent participant in the listserv, and she is anticipating that when things come up on the listserv, being able to say, "well, look here on the ExhibitFiles," so it can be complementary.

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we want people who are respected community leaders, strong communicators, people who will generate energy and momentum, and credibility and trust in the work that you’re doing. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. The first is advocate.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! There was a brief list of metrics generated: Avoid "raw numbers" per month of readers. " generated a short list of blog and weblog stat programs and some other measures: StatCounter. Google Analytics. don't click here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. But if you are initiating a larger, less defined project, a wiki can help you organize the content as it is generated in parallel by the team members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

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. What are you goals for using social media to support your organizing work?

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