AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

These details and how your conference will work depends on the conference theme and your company’s overall goals. . An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. Virtual conferences can be broken down into: . panel discussions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars. Get free Gartner research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

You can even list a signature goal and download signatures. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Bonus points! Care2’s Petition Site: Start a free petition on the Petition Site to rally support around one of your latest campaigns.

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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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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. Murphy offers this advice to other nonprofits that want to set up an employee champion strategy: Have a clear idea of goals. pic.twitter.com/s4COgBXzcK.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

It has also been a great way to measure the organization's progress in meeting tech goals. You'll need to take inventory of what you have, focus on key areas, and come up with the goals you'd like to achieve. You might need to tweak your goals as you go. Goals and objectives. Opt for the K.I.S.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars. Get free Gartner research.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

It’s a vanity metric – not a metric that is connected to furthering your advocacy goals. .” Just because a breast cancer organization like Komen received over 100K “likes” in 24 hours does not mean they leveraged this meme in a meaningful way. “Likes” are the equivalent of thumbs up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

Wicks and Monje outlined the 3 goals of United We Serve: To bolster civic engagement nationwide. To better our communities in 4 priority issue areas: energy/environment, education, health care, and community renewal. They have toolkits available , and will be building more, to help you create your project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. So, if you set up a Facebook group before there were Facebook pages and you are hoping to use Facebook for external marketing goals - then consider converting your group into a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Iavor says they started with an over arching strategy, "We had to think through what we do as a brand in the social space and how it relates to our business goals so we could deploy social media strategically." The other day I mentioned one of our goals on my status and my friends started to discuss it.

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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. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

She covers initial goals, leadership buy-in, staff time, and next steps. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! You must read this great interview with Danielle Brigida about how she uses social media for her organization, NWF.

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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. The goal of our workshop is to provide media training for nonprofits, including training on using these new tools.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Once the call was ready, Wes circulated it to even more museum partners, as well as to artist listservs and our general membership. Be generous and creative about what "better" could look like, but hold onto that goal. These people were both potential participants and promoters of the call, helping it continue to spread.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Content – a focus on capturing and publishing what the community learns and knows (i.e. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Figure out which two or three activities best meet your community's goals, and focus your energies on them. I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. Inspired by MoveOn email campaigns, CitizenSpeak provides the same e-advocacy capability at the community level. What are some success stories of people using CitizenSpeak? So, how does it feel to be acknowledged like this?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

Your goal is to get them to buy into this effort. Our mid-level fundraising listserv has more than 200 active participants. Remember how you listed who you need and what you need from them back in Week One? Well this week you’ll enlist those people in your cause. Set up one on ones with: Your boss. The major gifts director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Our goals are: ??? I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment. It wasn't in my wiki and so I just added.

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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. As part of her job as Internet Marketing Manager in the Online Communications and Media department at the HSUS.

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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. Analyzing Your Blog Content With Metrics and Insight Of course, you need to set overall goals for your blog and understand your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. Middlebrook suggests setting some goals for your commenting and then use some tracking tools to comment on a strategically selected group of blogs. On Day 28, she asked " What is your blog commenting strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. The goal is to identify and analyze how museums are using Twitter and suggest best practices as well as some possibilities for the future. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter."

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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. The goal is to allow anyone to be a celebrity for their charity. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections 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. Implementation, I think, depends on the goals of the organization. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. It's not so much that I think they should have a blog as it is I think that they should practice blogging.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. And as we all know as fundraisers, one of our main goals is to ensure 100% board participation in both annual and capital fundraising projects. And then participation, which is really focused on fundraising. So what does this mean?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

That may be fine for people who want the exercise of reinventing the wheel, but it's a disaster if our goal is to grow and improve what we offer to visitors. Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

The Royal British Columbia Museum launched a (now defunct) Quick Response Team (QRT) initiative in which team members created exhibits and programs with the goal of being public-ready within one month of an event of concern. Hopefully a timely choice considering the recent discussion on the ASTC listserv about the differences (semantic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Search technorati with the goal of finding a small number of blogs that are about your topic and are regularly updated. Directories: [link].

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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. push back with clients who want to rush forward into a new technology without a clear goal, an assessment or a plan. It’s easy and cheap, accessible from anywhere, and will help you define your work. (3)

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

I mean, that’s what keeps me motivated because I think that if we try to focus on the big goal, the big idea, it’s just going to be really daunting. I was just talking with one of my clients just before and said, “Hey, we’re finally able to have this second conversation with this funder. ” .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

A great public example of a wiki-based project is WeAreMedia , a wiki with the goal of creating a "social media starter kit for non-profits." That goal means that a wiki is useful, because participants can contribute segmented content and then work with facilitators to decide how to organize it. Think back on the WikiDemo example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

What are you goals for using social media to support your organizing work? 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. That's the importance of goal number 2 for FIRM's social media tools. It's show and show.

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