Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. 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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Basic data sets allow organizations to take action—such as communicating with members or soliciting donors. They are like a compass that uses historical data as one point and forward-looking data modeling as another point to determine your direction and set your course of action. Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit. That’s okay!

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JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. There seems to be a feeling we should remove any records that have not had an action in 7 years. If it’s a record with no financial giving and no actions, is there another reason that it is in the database? I’m a bit worried by this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

offers nonprofits some pretty cool benefits like branding, promotion on YouTube’s nonprofits channel and call to action overlays in your videos. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm caught between being a Myers-Briggs J or Getting Things Done person (as fast as possible) and making space for reflection or rather reflection in action. Is reflection in action the way to integrate small amounts of experimentation with Web2.0 Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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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? To challenge my set ways of doing traditional Internet research (are ya laughing now Gavin?), What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

With that, email marketing can be used to provide more tailored information and announcements bringing awareness to your organization and helping to nurture subscribers toward taking action on your cause, initiatives, or events to the right audience.

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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. They have issued a call-to-action -- the " Integration Proclamation." Blog reactions here , here , here , here , here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

We also welcome all at-large participants to participate in the trial by sitting in the public gallery from which we can see all the action in the courtroom but also have our own discussion of the proceedings without disrupting them. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Moving Readers to Action. Effective blogging can move an organization's supporters to action, a point Schilling spoke to. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action? Here’s how to use source codes, in five easy steps: Drive people to take action on a website page. Enter source codes.

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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. This is especially useful if the event generates actions, working groups, people who want to spearhead follow-on collaboration.

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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 encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki. And this call to action from Rebecca "Above all, the important point here is that Global s will become what you make of it. Ethan Zukerman shares his thoughts of the highpoints and why he is retroactively pleased.

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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 Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog. I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

On The Digital Habits: Stewarding Technology Communities blog , Nancy, John, and Etienne have compiled a Action Notebook with detailed worksheets to help you make decisions about selecting tools in the context. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). The big steps: Preamble: reflection on the role of tech steward.

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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. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. All of these approaches have their downsides, of course, but they don't encourage data loss. Others Who Agree.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. Keeping in touch with the donor and tracking your Actions in RE will be pivotal to growing the relationship for the next major gift opportunity.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action?" 'via via Blog this'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Cocktail Party Participation: Revisiting Twitter , Nina Simon Twitter to Save the World (celebrates the release of Social Actions Twitterfeed) Twitter Primer by Beth Kanter Twitter 101 by Connie Bensen Twitter Resources from Pistachio

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

That slowness is great if you want to immerse in a conversation where you reflect and explore, but it can be really annoying if you're trying to come to agreement, determine actions, and make decisions. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. There I go again, wanting a virtual flipchart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. When non profits are running five programs, two actions, and leadership development trainings there often aren't resources left for this work.

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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. giving people all the facts and showing them why taking a particular action is in their best interest or is good for society in general.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. She is the founder of Innovation Network, Inc.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

With a call to action. 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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. So the question I’m asked a lot is how can we turn this insight into action?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 21, 2007

Folks have set up, in addition to the traditional listservs, an online channel for the Bookshare.org community that allows both voice chat and text messaging in a way that is highly accessible to people with disability. It's a blast to see it in action! Technology serving humanity: our motto.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And that’s where you can also leverage social media, can you create that call to action using social media and just thinking about how you want to build out those platforms? So the way that you would do this in action is that let’s say that you are an after-school education program and you want to provide services.

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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. This campaign was generated to as a unique way to get people involved in taking action against the Canadian seal hunt. Sunny (the seal).

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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. When people share their photos of your museum, they promote and spread your content to new audiences in authentic ways.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. There are action-oriented words, like Project and Exchange. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media.

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