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Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. All other job announcements are to be posted elsewhere. Read the full transcript here! Anyone who subscribes may post messages. Announcements of member openings are also permitted.
In December, Gebru said she was abruptly fired over an email she sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv. I left because Google's mistreatment of @timnitGebru and @RealAbril crossed a personal red line I wrote down when I started the job. The departures point to an ongoing conflict between Google management and staff.
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). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?
Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month.
This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. I don't normally blog job announcements, but it is such a great organization and if I lived in New York I'd be appying myself. For detailed info see here.
Ask them what challenges they currently face in their jobs and talk about ways that strategically-implemented technology could help them. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds).
We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. We're also not doing a great job capturing truly used up IT discards that can be used to harvest parts and raw materials like plastics, metals, and glass. that finds that Federal electronics recycling legislation could create as many as 42,000 direct and indirect new jobs.
One tidbit that Rebbecca shared is that they didn’t demand or require that their partners use their logo (although a simple text acknowledgment was included instead.) TechSoup has done an amazing job of partnering with local organizations throughout the world, and customizing the partnership to both minimize the risk and meet local needs.
There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products. Survey members of your organization to ask what information they are missing that could help them perform their job better, faster, more efficiently, or more effectively. How do I harness my data?
" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Lisa does an excellent job, quietly working in the background to keep a steady flow of information happening. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars.
Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. 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.
I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. I know that you are the mother of two young children, how do you balance being an activist, nonprofit software developer, and (a day job too!) I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting.
She describes her blog as a "workish" blog and she posts as part of her day job, but also from home. They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. org your personal professional blog or is blogging a part of your job at Compumentor? Going to conferences is a part of my job.
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. The nature of your job may provide you with access to confidential information regarding Easter Seals, Easter Seals beneficiaries, or fellow employees. t Tell Secrets.
" In 1999, after working 6 years on the web, I wrote this piece on how my online work had changed based on different job labels. The concept of digital curators has been around since the beginning of the Web - at first they were called "Cybrians." Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?
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.
Notable things from this year, from both myself and Aria: More accountability for audio job listings. Way more numbers had already started to circulate in audio-industry listservs when, less than a week ago, a bill was passed to mandate salary disclosures for all job listings in NYC, where many media companies are based.
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? You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate. Enter source codes.
Jane Perrone, representing The Guardian, does a great job summarizing some of the conversation. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki. Yes, one day was way too short and definitely small group interaction would also have been good, but there is next year!
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. Writing a Compelling Job Description. Writing a Compelling Job Description.
So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 Although most nonprofits are probably still using more traditional job titles, the Agitator describes how the job Webmaster has changed.
" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Lisa does an excellent job, quietly working in the background to keep a steady flow of information happening. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars.
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'
tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. It also does a good job helping. I've been trying to think of ways to integrate. content creation into work and events already happening. I always remind people to document their live events with photos or video.
I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. It is truly a "ringmaster" job. " Given that it is a virtual word, do online facilitation techniques used in RL or other types of online applications make sense? How can we take advantage of the medium of Second Life?
The wiki has to be the best tool for the job. When is a wiki the best tool for the job? Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. But people who read a listserv aren't necessarily incentivized to contribute to the wiki. a conference). Otherwise, people won't contribute.
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.
And that's something I think we can all do a better job supporting. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. Because this is fundamentally about connecting visitors with each other in discussion about the most pressing issues related to the institution.
I don’t know how you find the time to do this, Elizabeth, in addition to your full-time job which is a lot, but you’re also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. 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.
There have been studies that have shown that there’s not this sort of 9:00 to 5:00 job right now, especially when people working virtually, your office is where you live. And make sure you have your key attachments, your resumes, bios, job descriptions, budgets, and also what your concept could be for potential funding. .
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