Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

For the past 12 years TechSoup Global has been doing work on multiple levels in the area of electronics recycling and refurbishment to do whatever we can to increase the flow of good low-cost refurbished and new IT equipment to charities and libraries. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. We have participated in a U.S.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

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. In the process, TechSoup learned just how much work goes into volunteer coordination (a lot!), Seven organizations were chosen, and then the real work of organizing the day of service began.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

an amazing woman (and mother of two) who works in the nonprofit technology space - for all her work managing the project and making it a huge success. Despite working with George for over a year, we've never met in person.) And you have to be an activist otherwise the nut jobs will take over the world. I'm not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

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. work in providing life-changing solutions that help all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play. Work Matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). She describes her blog as a "workish" blog and she posts as part of her day job, but also from home. What do you think the benefits are?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

" 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. Further, they don't even need to create their own content, just as a museum curator rarely hangs his/her own work next to a Da Vinci. They do, however, need to be subject matter experts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In this courageous guest post, Adrienne Berney, a Collections Care Trainer who works primarily with history museums, gives us an insider’s guide to these issues. 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

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? Laura has been working in the software sector for nearly 20 years. You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Jane Perrone, representing The Guardian, does a great job summarizing some of the conversation. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. Next year in Nigeria?).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Remember to include both hard skills (specific knowledge and technical qualifications) and soft skills (behavioral characteristics, personality traits, and attributes of work style). Writing a Compelling Job Description. Writing a Compelling Job Description.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Charities carry out mission-based work. Foundations fund and coordinate mission-based work. Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. are two organizations doing good work to make that happen. Foundations need tech support as much as anyone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses. organization's mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization. content creation into work and events already happening. 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

JANUARY 28, 2007

It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. It is truly a "ringmaster" job. Of course, you'd need the aural channel for it to work. There I go again, wanting a virtual flipchart.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. We had 40 "emerging technology" professionals on the team, and we couldn't sufficiently self-motivate to do our work on the wiki instead of an antiquated email list. So when do wikis work? Wikis work best in situations in which content, not socializing, is primary.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

More important to me is how they talk about the way that they work. 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. How do you respond to that?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So if you have to leave early, or maybe get another appointment, or maybe you’re working from home and a toddler barges in something like that, like me, don’t worry. She works over at CCS. Which by the way, if you work at CCS, this is pretty serious people if you know that agency. Well, thank you so much.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

And that's something I think we can all do a better job supporting. You need lots of active users to make a support forum work. Support forums that work well work quickly--you post a question and get a relevant response within a few hours. But first, some basics about customer support.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And because of that, we really have an understanding of what’s happening with clients and what’s happening in the current world and just trying to work with them throughout COVID. And I’m really inspired and encouraged by a lot of the work you do. So you might be working longer. And nonprofits are no exception.

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