Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Flickr is a web application that allows anyone to share and organize photographs online. See Amy Gahran's advice : I also started an affinity group (listserv) over at N-TEN called Flickr for Nonprofits. But not all. You could pay for banal photo stock, but there is another option. Creative Commons Licenses.

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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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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

JANUARY 25, 2007

A recording of your , the image on your screen, and some additional elements, screencasts are perfect for explaining how-to's for your applications and other specific, tactical uses. Screencasts are a great new way to answer simple how-to's and record the answers to those frequently asked questions for posterity.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Since 2006, the Purpose Prize has received approximately 1,200 applications a year. Aside from online paid advertising, Civic Ventures’ Campaign team is using social media to reach new people and generate more applications this year. Ten people are awarded the prize yearly.

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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. There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. Once enough people "validate" (vote for) the project, it becomes active and visible to anyone using the SpeedGranting application. I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. That means we are looking at theories and principles in light of their application in practice. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

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? Personally I think I???ve But there can be long gaps equivalent to watching the paint dry in between times.

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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. I like Mashable and Tweet Crunch for the latest news, ideas and applications. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter." What is the best of the best how-to advice out for using Twitter? Nina Simon's Museum 2.0

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Make sure you clearly communicate your needs in the job description, screen applications according to the identified criteria, and base your interview questions and reference checking around the required competencies. Clear and easy application instructions. Screening Candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

DevelopmentSeed blog posted back in October some screenshots of the Facebook application created to Help End Poverty as part of the UN Millennium Campaign outreach to Facebook community. If you're curious about what other Facebook applications are being used by nonprofits, check out this top 12 list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

applications have changed the rules of online community. 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 There are two sets of social roles here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. Judi is currently Vice President of Operations of Fight Colorectal Cancer , an organization she helped start in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. API stands for Application Programming Interface, but don???t Enterprise 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

" Given that it is a virtual word, do online facilitation techniques used in RL or other types of online applications make sense? I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. How can we take advantage of the medium of Second Life? I keep coming back to damn virtual flip chart.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

The Sunlight Foundation is a new group that is doing an amazing job of using blogs, databases and a really fun new application called Congresspedia to monitor the relationships between Congress, money and legislation. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. We cannot interface with other desired applications.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. It’s writing the application.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. 4) Share an application with an organization in your sector. The idea is, the more we share applications, the more likely we will find really useful ones for our specific work. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. And it will!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Audio makers increasingly demanded that job postings list exact pay upfront to prevent applicants from accepting lowball offers and reinforcing that those prices are fair (a risk that’s heightened when communicating in private, without the watchful eye of peers).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. , and they are concerned that they are supporting the development of exhibitions, and once the exhibits travel, the knowledge really disappears.

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