Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

I said to him: I can't really answer that question. The key question is, every step of the way: how can you invite people beyond yourself to help make this step better? This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. It's a question of how they can make it BETTER.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

Great question, but first, let’s explore what email marketing is and is not. This email type is sent with the usual goals of acquiring, recruiting, informing, or welcoming new subscribers to your organization’s email listserv. “I currently send out only newsletter emails for my non-profit, but I am curious to know more.

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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! My work was as a trainer, to teach people who to use these tools strategically. That small community evolved into the organization – NTEN – the association for nonprofit techies.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

You will need to have a team of staff or volunteers available to direct traffic, answer questions, and help people navigate the event. Even if attendees are familiar with video conferencing tools, it does not mean that they won’t have questions or difficulty figuring out how to access a particular webinar or virtual meeting. .

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. The original question: My organization is working on a data retention policy and wondering if others have insights to share. A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records. Storage needs can be assessed internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. If so, let me know. BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 7, 2011

A friend posted about them on a listserve and said that clicking the link downloads a virus. Please review this question and notify us of your opinion. I got 7 versions of this today, at 2 different email addresses. They included an attachment called bbb_logo.jpg but no graphics in the message body. Sincerely yours, Paula Tap.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

" 6 questions to prepare you for a social media crisis – "In social media, the disasters people talk about most are fundamentally crises of public relations. In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge.

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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.” With more than two weeks since Superstorm Sandy hit, many nonprofits are asking the same question: how do we communicate during a crisis like that? Flickr Photo by Rob Howells.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group. What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning – guest post by Cindy Rizzo. Luckily, the learning, evaluation and knowledge management pioneers want to keep talking and meeting.

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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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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 stirred up a debate by raising the question “why not allow access?” Do these two directives and perspectives have to be at odds?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Email listserv signup. When it comes to building a nonprofit website that’s fully functional and engaging, the question should not be, ‘How much does it cost?’ The question should be, ‘What’s the return on the investment? Here are some possible features you could include on your site: Event registration. Blog for content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2006

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I was recently contacted by the vendor behind a new cloud-based donor management system with this question: "We have noticed that our clients have become much more conscious about archiving/deleting old donor/prospect records because our pricing model is based on the number of records. Others Who Agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Murphy says they initiated training for employees, that offered the 101 and 201 of using Twitter. Murphy served as the point of contact, answering staff questions on the fine art of tweeting. Have point person in a training role to answer questions, but also encourage staff to share what they are learning.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. in which 400 computer refurbishers exchange information, talk shop, ask technical questions, and debate issues. Several of our global partners operate similar programs. We co-founded and organized the International Computer Refurbishers Summit for many years. We have participated in a U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds. changing habits is another story).

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I decided to do an action learning experiment on these questions: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads than traditional techniques? s the answer to my question??? So, I'm going through my LinkedIn contacts and looking at sending this out as a question. who should I ask.???

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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. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

This begs the question - should a breast cancer organization have been the one to have thought of a meme like this as part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer? Can You Build a Base of Supporters with Memes? Could they have leveraged this opportunity to build their email list, and raise money? .

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Let users submit questions for pre-formed panels in advance using a simple form, or even an email address. It's especially nice when questions come from constituencies who really can't attend the event due to travel logistics, etc. It's nice to be able to send them a summary/recording of the discussion generated by their questions.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. Sometimes clarifying questions. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We had no idea when we introduced our new Communities of Practice (CoPs ) engagement model that there were be so many questions and concerns, and I think this may be that very "once in a while". If the list doesn't answer your question or if you have further questions please post them in the comments and we'll make sure to answer.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Get DemandTools When in doubt, "use DemandTools " is the answer to almost any question when it comes to massaging data in Salesforce. Join NPSF Bit of a shameless plug as I've been co-moderator of the Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv for a couple of years now.

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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. YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. So, I decided to use Linked Question/Answer feature despite Alan Levine's " LimitedIn " post. The first step was to compose the question. The next step was to send it my contacts.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Now here's the rub: for this to work for you and the community, plan to answer twice as many questions as you ask. The question I'll leave you with is why not do this? NTEN and TechSoup list a few. You can also join Interaction or the CIO4Good forums. The benefit?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And just to make it easy, we’ll ask you to type your questions in the chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

So, I'm summarizing our distributed conversation, with the hope that some folks might add their , ask questions, or share observations. This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" After answering the Myers-Briggs like questions about my actual activity, ta da, I'm a creator! I've noticed this in the nptech stream, we have conversations scattered in listservs, forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social media nooks and crannies. created a quiz.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

Start out by answering some fundamental questions. Launching a 3-question survey to mid-level donors with email addresses. Our mid-level fundraising listserv has more than 200 active participants. And don’t flail. I have a history of doing stuff willy-nilly and it always backfires. Write your answers down. Parting Word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. 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. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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