Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

listings in paid and free consultants directories. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Options include. writing articles. publishing a newsletter. public speaking. business cards. participation in online discussion groups. volunteer work. networking at conferences and workshops. the dreaded cold calls.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. While onsite, I put reminders on my smartphone calendar to make sure I do critical things during my next ‘free time,’ or I send myself an email to do it at home that night. Attend conferences. do it ASAP.

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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). Grab a free copy here: If the Shoe Fits.

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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. Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks. ChurchTechToday. I found her communications content.

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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. Get free Gartner research. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

The ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit News (LCNN) is a free source of information sent to your inbox bi-monthly, and it's stuffed with knowledge and tools. Our Center's AZGates web-based knowledge platform is a free service that links grantmakers and grantseekers.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. It had been suggested that Chatter might be a good solution, now that Salesforce is offering Chatter Free and will be introducing Chatter.com for broader deployment next year.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Please feel free to add your own tips in the comments. Pay special attention to the free and discounted for nonprofits sections. 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.

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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. Free Conference Calls - for simple needs. What are the best vendors for INEXPENSIVE phone conference calls that can be contracted on a as-needs basis? FreeConferenceCall - for simple needs. You can also.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds. I hope this sets me free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. In this post, the GrokDotCom blog picks up the Free Ranger Rick thread and asks: Are non-profits an endangered species on Facebook? Nonprofits can use groups).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

And, depending on the license, you are free to use many of them. The good news is that it is free for a basic account (you can upgrade to a professional account later if you find the need to upload more photos than the basic alotment and the upgrade is cheap, $25 per year.) Creative Commons Licenses.

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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. I tracked Chris down on Twitter ( @lighterfootstep ) and asked him if there were other free feed management tools available. Here's the thread.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. What's the elevator speech for CitizenSpeak? What are some success stories of people using CitizenSpeak?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. Why did you choose Ning?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

This email type is sent with the usual goals of acquiring, recruiting, informing, or welcoming new subscribers to your organization’s email listserv. At Whole Whale, we love any chance to promote free resources and products to further aid in a person’s digital learning journey, and the best way we share this information is in a newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Feel free to email or skype me if you need help getting started - it's a wee bit of a learning curve, but fun. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. If you're interested in attending or getting more involved, there are some ways to do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. In fact, the audio in his clip is unacceptable to me, but I had some problems editing with my free Windows moviemaker editing program. So, I like let them know.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. Possible Lower Entry Free. Let’s take an academic conference for example: Academic conferences are usually centered around associations or research areas.

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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. Get free Gartner research. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Hopefully, while we improve communication on our end, you all will start to see the endless opportunities for the free, in-depth networking and educational experiences that CoPs will provide. All CoP webinars and community calls, as well as participation in the online groups is free for everyone. Where does the CoP “live”?

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Here are three broad approaches: Grab a free or cheap tool and get started fast. 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. Big visions often mean higher likelihood of disappointment.

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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. EduBlogs offers free blogs to educators and learners. Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.

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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). . #3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits.

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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. It's free insight into their follower's daily lives. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter." Tell me about you I am a University of Washington student currently writing my thesis to complete my MA in Museology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples. Two of the other three interviews were more of a free wheeling discussion and I did not do any local screencapture. He also notes that he doesn't log with markers, but edits as he is listening to the interview.

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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. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free. And if you???re

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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. A sandbox is a free exact duplicate of your Common Ground production organization without any data. Want to try out some fancy code?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. You can open an account on flickr for free (although if you get a professional account you can upload more photos) and start using it in minutes. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. It shouldn???t

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in during the session we’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. Would love to continue the conversation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So feel free to do that. So please feel free to ask those. You can feel free to ask those questions from the chat box. I especially know everyone’s got Zoom fatigue, so I’m trying to be very respectful of your time and your bandwidth for being on screens. So, as Steven shared, we can share a little bit more about me.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Some are free. For example, LINGOs has a free nonprofit learning catalog. And the IFRC, my organization, has a Learning Network with many free courses for volunteers. What is free today may be a cost you can't afford tomorrow. 2) Partner in Learning.

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