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). Basic, but very thorough.

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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. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. Please log in to comment on this blog post. Do you have any faith-based tech resources to add? Image: Aftab.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Please feel free to add your own tips in the comments. 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. Leave a comment » Turn on the Weekly Backup Setup -> Administration Setup -> Data Management -> Data Export.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. Wikis and wiki spreadsheets are so much more efficient than sending back word and excel spreadsheets with comments or track changes.

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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. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Carmen left me a follow up comment. 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. If you have an example or any insights, please leave a comment. Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up. The final list will be available over at the client's workspace on Omidyar, a wiki-like space. I thanked her.

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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%. Wow, better than a listserv! Is reflection in action the way to integrate small amounts of experimentation with Web2.0

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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. " Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. 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. While the presenter encouraged us to "think outloud" by typing comments in the chat as a substitute for body language, there wasn't a lot of interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. This should be good fodder for debate.

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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. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

My vlog has been linked to from a lot of the Cambodian portals so I have a lot of Cambodian people viewing my vlog and commenting. By chance, he found my blog and left a comment. s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. What type of responses do you get from Cambodians (viewing your vlog?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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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. I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. Greg Beuthin, ext311.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. I've been busy trying to cram over 150 tech shirts into a suitcase to take to Cambodia so I missed this one.

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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. Feel free to comment on other helpful tactics--or things that haven't worked so well! . The Center for Global Development does this a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

The other day, Chris Brogan left a comment about how conversations online were becoming more distributed and fragmented. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. The backchannel had a designated "IRC Advocate" who towards the end of a session summarized the comments and posed some of the questions that came up during the backchannel. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. tag: [link].

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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. " came from a comment left by Gavin and summarized in this post. I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to other people and channels gives you an idea of what others are talking about and lets you comment on it. Ideas for content can be sourced from staff, supporters, other blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and listservs. Blogs can — and should — incorporate a mix of text, audio, video, and photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

If you are a nonprofit or affiliated with a nonprofit that is already doing something in Second Life, take this survey or let us know by leaving a comment in this post. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. Well, at least I wasn't saying catty things about the people who were there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. 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). Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Tracking Blog Conversations. Technorati. Ice Rocket. BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. 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). Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Tracking Blog Conversations. Technorati. Ice Rocket. BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Change the World!

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Going on with the traffic metaphor, there was a comment that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! Feel free to add your ideas in the comments section at the bottom of this page or on the original post. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Please share your experience in the comments below. Murphy served as the point of contact, answering staff questions on the fine art of tweeting. There’s another benefit.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

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. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. How will the CoP members interact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. 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). Screencasting Panel.

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