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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. I've written a lot about interactive lectures as an instructional technique in the real world - so what is the best way to bring that into Second Life. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I While some of the techniques and strategies described in articles by colleagues in here in the US may translate to other cultures, the payment system evaluation reports don't necessarily do. So, ramble along with me as I think outloud.and blog it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? What is your technique for responding to comments? I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. How do you nurture conversations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples. And, I don't have the patience to listen to the entire recording over again. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Some tools and techniques follow below. 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). These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Some tools and techniques follow below. 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). These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search.

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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 actually invented a term and technique called critical browsing. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted). There's not even a description of what the blogs do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. So, I read it with this question in mind: What techniques can be applied or adapted to Second Life facilitation or virtual world interface facilitation? I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I'm pleased to say that I've perfected my notetaking techniques and am more comfortable with the multi-channel chat and IM. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. Except for two things. Second Life crashed - and we were all frozen and booted off. We had to log back on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. " You read an excerpt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This This would make a great blog post!???

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AUGUST 28, 2008

This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. by years: customer support forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. Use the groups search feature on flickr to find a group and join it. Send the photo the group photo pool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Share your tips, tactics, tools, and techniques for effectively curating to serve your audience. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. As Will Coley explains , "when organizations offer clarity amidst the noise, they build trust among supporters."

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