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5 Proven Tips for Building Your Nonprofits Email List

NetWits

If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Clearly marked.

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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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! My blog post generated a referral.

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I am also eager to test out some of the tools and ideas I learned about social search during the Yi-Tan call. I was most curious about ChaCha - a search engine that lets you search with human help.

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I hope Gavin puts his witty comments on Social Search into a blog post at his digital dinner.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Is it worth it to integrate social search into practice?

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Is it worth it to integrate social search into your practice? I've been doing a small research project.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. In fact, approximately 75% of nonprofit jobs are filled by strong candidates before the search ever becomes public. What do people love about working here?

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). 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. I followed people. It needs to get over itself and be where the people are.

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