Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. Start thinking about success stories that you can share with your organization. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.)

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I was grateful the other half were consultants or Convio employees who also positively participated in the discussion, which was more of an open exchange than a lecture. I find it's much easier to open an object file.csv in Excel and figure out/remind myself what requires a Salesforce ID, what's a checkbox, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The obvious start was to think about how we recruit the artists--using an open call to invite anyone, anywhere to participate. But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work. share your work. Inviting starts with sharing.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. 4) Share an application with an organization in your sector. The idea is, the more we share applications, the more likely we will find really useful ones for our specific work. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

They are open to NTEN members and non-members alike and center on themes that reflect both a specific programmatic focus and an ongoing opportunity for growth. No, CoP’s are open to both NTEN members and non-members alike. NTEN is open to various configurations of group leadership. How will the CoP members interact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

what is kept within the community, what is shared with the wider world). Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Relationship – getting to know each other (i.e. the annual potluck dinner!).

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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. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning. All about the Forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Paul, I think it is okay to blog private email conversations as long as you aren't airing dirty laundry or sharing too private information. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London. Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Heather from Aspiration shares her process for securing a venue for Penguin Day. CEO Kintera steps down.

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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. Or will Convio innovate less due to their massive new market share and potential perceived lack of competition? Grassroots.org blog reports on the recent National Media Reform Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A 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. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. It's messy.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And my colleague is going to share our presentation and we will jump right in. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. And when people ask why I do the work that I do, I like to share my own mission. So a little bit more about me very quickly. A lot of Cs, okay.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

ExhibitFiles is a community-based site launched last month to encourage the documentation, sharing, and exploration of exhibits and the exhibit design process. There's no sharing of that information. We know that that's a difficult thing to share. We decided that the openness was more of a benefit than a detriment.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Let me stop sharing my screen her and we can bring up your beautiful slides, and you can take it away. So, as Steven shared, we can share a little bit more about me. She’s raised a lot of money through grants. She knows her stuff, folks. And I think you’re going to see that come through in the presentation.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it. (2) I’m not sure whether they’re open to a broader community, but I think they have archives online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. Recent advances in web development make data sharing much easier. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. I've written about my blogging workflow before, but I'd like to share my creative process. Opening the Kimono. What have I learned about the topic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option.

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