Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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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. be clear ahead of time how you charge for phone calls and emails, especially from people who are not your point of contact, and/or in emergencies. - Find people you can complain to; it takes the pressure off. -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

We sold out our 120 seats over a month before the conference and had over 60 people on a waiting list wanting to come. I was also really happy with the mix of people that came to the conference; we had academics, practitioners, executive directors, researchers, people that don’t often get in the same room and talk. right here.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2008

Reading our volunteer email listserv this morning, I came across lyrics to a song about our volunteer community. Volunteering is a fascinating, fulfilling blessing resulting in my reading wonderful books, learning new things and getting to know people I enjoy, care about and admire. Thanks to volunteer Lissi for writing this.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). 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. I followed people. It needs to get over itself and be where the people are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The way I learned was through working with peer group of people who were supporting nonprofits in their quest to build capacity and skills using the Internet to realize their missions. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

networking with people (and firms) who can refer their clients or subcontract with you. 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. online and print advertising.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Many non-tech people (i.e., people who aren't responsible for the technical decisions in your organization; all humans are tech people) will only tolerate a technical discussion if they can see immediately how it helps them. to get success stories.

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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. That’s not surprising since faith-based organizations are all about community. Additional TechSoup Resources.

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Resource Technology Listserv Virginia 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

So, I can easily respect other people's tool preferences as long as I don't get too annoyed. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.

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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'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

The "bacn" from this program was sent to a listserv, and it annoyed people on the list. I've gotten too many messages from colleagues that have the subject line "Do We Read The Same Books" and it encourages you to sign up for a social software called Shelfari.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc.

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Network Global Difference Develop 96

NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. What do people love about working here? Cassie Scarano, Commongood Careers. [Ed. Screening Candidates. What sets us apart from other nonprofit organizations?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2015

From building a movement to groundtruthing an organization's policies, a listserv can be a powerful tool for a revolution within and beyond an organization. I am a big fan of email listservs. They can be a great tool to bring together people virtually who will not cross paths in life. Bicicultures.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. That said, I recommend capping membership numbers and I would avoid putting thousands of people in a Facebook Group. It could get unwieldy quickly. Can building a Facebook Group impact advocacy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Pre-internet, people were limited to these passionate conversations with friends in person or by phone. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. Connects people who are passionate about similar issues to each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Mari Smith suggests these key reasons: More people can find out about your organization because your Page gets indexed and is search able inside and outside of Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. We use it to go where people are already organizing against genocide, and give them tools to do so effectively.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. How many people in your database have gone off the grid for 7+ years and then come back? A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records. It would just be harder to get at the ones that are over 7 years old.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. d still say that a sociographic approach would work, but try it solely with social networks of people. The key for me was: I???d person in the know???

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

Beyond the Center, there are also dozens of listservs, blogs, and electronic "hallways" devoted to philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and management, volunteerism, and other facets of the social sector. Our Center's AZGates web-based knowledge platform is a free service that links grantmakers and grantseekers.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Should they have taken that new list of supporters (whether it was on Facebook, email, or Twitter) and focused on a ladder of engagement plan to build real relationships these new people? 5,600 new people in the U.S. And they cannot simply just fold these new people into their regular email and direct mail communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Usually, I panic and start brainstorming a list of smarter people and browsing my networks for people I am sure can give me the answers. And occassionally, there might be a post where some good soul has summarized the learning from the last time that particular question was asked on the listserv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

individuals who make their mark on community opinion through participation on blogs, listservs, social networking and bookmarking sites, and other online forums where people gather to exchange news and views. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

The Association for Institutional Research ( AIR ) provides resources and connections for those “working at the intersection of people and data.” There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products. How do I harness my data?

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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 asked him to help me find a list of conferences that people who work in nonprofits might find valuable to attend. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. 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. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

My work was as a trainer, to teach people who to use these tools strategically. Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv! That small community evolved into the organization – NTEN – the association for nonprofit techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

There were about 50 people there. 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. This is one of many events taking place to mark the Island's Grand Opening organized by the tireless Lori Bell who must not sleep.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I got the chance to present on a panel with three other people in an information session hosted by the U.S. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. And when we get the chance we also advocate for charities and libraries in other high places – like the U.S. Our latest opportunity was on February 13 2013.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

You will need to have a team of staff or volunteers available to direct traffic, answer questions, and help people navigate the event. 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. More Attractive to Attendees.

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