NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

AASP''s listserv, Fundsvcs, won the grand prize in the 2013-2014 LISTSERV Choice Awards. Forget ice buckets, VolunteerMark lets you know how you can help fight the spread of the Ebola virus. Congratulations to NTEN Member Partner, Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) ! Mark your calendars for 2015!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. But the right database can help people with: Prospect management and tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv! Cindy and I are just two of over 70,000 individuals in the NTEN community who helped by NTEN’s many services and programs to carry out our professional work. Donate now !

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. That’s not surprising since faith-based organizations are all about community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I was most curious about ChaCha - a search engine that lets you search with human help. A guide appears in the chat and asks how they might help. The work in progress is here. re not searching alone.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

To help you out, this article will address how virtual conferences work, how to get started, and why you should shift to this virtual format. . You will need to have a team of staff or volunteers available to direct traffic, answer questions, and help people navigate the event. What is a Virtual Conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Other findings include: More established forms of online communications — e-newsletters and Listservs — are regularly used by foundation CEOs at a much higher rate (65 percent and 45 percent, respectively) than the newer social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” Knowing how to get your message out and how to get support will help position you out in front the next time something like Sandy roars ashore (although hopefully not anytime soon!).

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Listservs provide great opportunities to not only promote your organizations initiatives but to listen to what other people are saying about your issues. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Last month, in a blog post that I wrote called " RSS As Information Coping Tool " - experimented with switching some my listserv subscriptions to RSS reader. Makes sense to really think about whether an information source/listserv is giving you value or not. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Listservs provide great opportunities to not only promote your organizations initiatives but to listen to what other people are saying about your issues. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. We’ll look at a number of techniques (including tracking) to help you think holistically about your communications. Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask them what challenges they currently face in their jobs and talk about ways that strategically-implemented technology could help them. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Are there technical solutions to those issues, or can technology help address particular inefficiencies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you combine that with a discussion group and practice by doing – learning soars. This is why I’m passionate about creating, facilitating, and participating in peer learning communities in the nonprofit technology field. They help deepen a field of practice.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2008

Reading our volunteer email listserv this morning, I came across lyrics to a song about our volunteer community. You're starting to get answers For questions that you send And the person who's been helping you Has now become your friend. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, and recognize the heroic nature of volunteer service!

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

You might want an accountant or lawyer to help you with all of this. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. publish your business name in the paper. get a Federal Tax ID. set up systems for tracking income, expenses, and invoices.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It helped that I also picked up some Addi Turbo needles, which has made the knitting fly. Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. I started it last Saturday morning. 5 days later, I’m already 3/4 of the way done with the front (back is finished). I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. 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.

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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

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. There’s another benefit.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

If a company is trying to land that $500K deal, Chatter can help the sales rep gather intelligence to make it happen. 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. Yes, there are filters on the sidebar which help somewhat.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I'd say half the room fit our target perfectly, which helped make the session successful. In addition to all the standard best practice reasons for having a backup, I sometimes use these spreadsheets to help me understand the data that's in our Salesforce. I figured that at 4:15 pm folks have had enough PowerPoint for the day.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Email listserv signup. Thankfully, storytelling expert Lori Jacobwith has seven tips that can help formulate your story. Remember, you can always come back and edit your page later, but you have to start strong to help set up your website for success from day one. Blog for content. Twitter and other social media feeds.

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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. TechSoup Global could have leveraged its resources in other programs to help with outreach. 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

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! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

As he notes in the introduction, the purpose is to help nature protection and pollution control experts become more confident and successful whenever they set out to enlighten the uninformed and persuade the undecided to take a stand on behalf of our rivers, lakes, and oceans. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Here's a few vendors mentioned on the listserv: Live Office Conference Call ReadyTalk Conference calls and web conferencing. My contribution to the list was not to focus on vendors, but to point to a wonderful document that I helped write with Nancy White, John Smith, and others about facilitation techniques for phone conference calls.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

They have toolkits available , and will be building more, to help you create your project. Any individuals/group/family can register their project. Find a volunteer opportunity on Serve.gov using the search engine powered by All For Good. Share your story about your summer service project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

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. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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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. Activity on your Page helps increase ??? Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option. viral visibility ???

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs. First, the help you receive is proportional to what you give. And while you're at it, invite the seminar graduates to help implement what you learned. NTEN and TechSoup list a few. The benefit?

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. This helps panels understand hot issues, and can help jump start dialogue during the event. Check it out ! The Center for Global Development does this a lot.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Never fear, the incredible tech planners are here to help! Use a template : Ask your state library if it has a template, or ask other librarians if they have a template you can use by way of a listserv (such as ARSL) or Facebook group. Does the thought of creating a tech plan for your organization seem overwhelming?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The key question is, every step of the way: how can you invite people beyond yourself to help make this step better? How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better? Their input helped shape the entire project, which in turn shaped the call. How can people help make your project better?

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