Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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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. Tags: Research Studies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Tags: Software. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use). Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link].

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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. Tags: ROI.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. Related posts: Five Things Tagged by Anne, it’s my turn at the meme. Tags: Knitting. I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle. When I fell “asleep,” knitting was a different world. Now, there’s podcasts, blogs and knitting social networks.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Tags: Consulting. The next two steps require becoming a paid member of CharityChannel.com. Browse the back issues of CharityChannel's Nonprofit Consultants Review: [link].

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Most are outsourcing website, email, and listserv hosting. Tags: NPTech sage NTEN remote 09NTC. Over the last couple of years, our IT Staffing reports have found that nonprofits are hosting their own software and services less and less. For those of you who want REAL San Francisco Chinese food, check out the House of Nanking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. So, now it is time to dig into using combination of tags in delicious. Wow, better than a listserv!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. 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. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

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. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. You can add tags to your documents! (No You can easilyl collaborate with spreadsheets and docs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. I think I'm a digital curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. Here's my response to her tagging me). I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I This leads me to why I tried to tag beyond my borders with the ngo meme. Technorati Tags: ngomeme Does anyone know?

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See3

APRIL 22, 2009

When I left my position at Easter Seals , I had seven-plus years of research covering the field of nonprofits online flowing (more like gushing) in daily via email newsletters, listserve digests, etc. There’s still room in my Inbox for something new… Tags: Nonprofits Web Tech nptech resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

In case you're wondering where I find these online tidbits, I'm scanning (well, Google Alerts is scanning) posts and online items with keywords or tags: nptech, nten, and nten member. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! If you're an NTEN member with some news, let me know!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

After reading the Pew Internet Report, I decided to experiment with using tags for a social search on delicious. Meanwhile, maybe Gavin might write up some more thoughts on social search or maybe all the stuff he posted some place on a listserv about RSS search techniques over at Digital Dinner. The key for me was: I???d

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. 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.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Tags: Collaboration. The Center for Global Development does this a lot. Every little outreach tactic generates a little more buzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web. Tags: social media. We have a mix of experience, from the early adoptors who can share their vast experience to those who are new.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. We talked further about the techniques for adding more s to the conversation and whether or not tags could help thread or engage more people. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters. Tags: Nonprofit Events Misc. They also plan to utilize Flickr to highlight photos of Purpose Prize winners making a difference in their communities, which will tie in nicely with their YouTube Channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

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

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

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. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Designing and building a collaboration community is a rich and multi-layered experience. Oh, and let us know what you're learning!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint.

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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. This made me think about searching through the resources in delicious tagged with Nptech + a variety of keywords including "conferences." I got about half dozen or so pretty useful leads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

tag: [link]. Technorati tag: [link]. Flickr tag: [link]. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki. Technorati Tags: globals In terms of the topic, here's all the post-conference posts: The Del.icio.us Technorati search: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. I go to my blogreader or email and then I get distracted or I can't quickly extract it from del.ici.ous because I didn't tag it carefully or I can't quite remember the correct name of the blog. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. I find myself stumbling.

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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. Tags: socialmediametrics RSS. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one). He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech That aside, I want to encourage Cambodians to vlog. Note: And judging by the discussion on the list, expect to see some vlog posts from Cambodians in the near future.) Cross posted on Global s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. here , using the ICT4peace tag. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting). We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors.

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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. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. Technorati Tags: nptech, bloggerview, nonprofit, 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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