Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in! Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Whether it’s on listservs, forums, blogs, facebook, twitter or anywhere else – there are so many people looking to foster open dialogue on issues important to and impacting the work of changemakers, activists and innovators around the world. Tweet about that for which you are grateful using the hashtag #EpicThanks.

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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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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.]. Initial in-person interview. What do people love about working here? Cassie Scarano, Commongood Careers. [Ed. Screening Candidates. Resume screen. Phone screen .

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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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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Which by the way, if you work at CCS, this is pretty serious people if you know that agency. And, dang, you’re busy and you’re a super-smart person. So I’m going to pipe down because people don’t want to hear from me, they want to hear from you. She works over at CCS.

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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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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's real-time and easy and personal. There's a big Chatter component to it.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information. Individual staff members use these tools both personally and professionally. Part of that has to do with my personality--I love to write, and I rarely take photographs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The library, which serves about 4,000 people, has no dedicated IT staff and a budget of about $200,000 per year. Julie described the library's community as "economically depressed" and a place where the digital divide is real: most people only access the Internet from their phones. Comodo (security software).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm caught between being a Myers-Briggs J or Getting Things Done person (as fast as possible) and making space for reflection or rather reflection in action. Wow, better than a listserv! I had to giggle because the first one on the list was the Omidyar workspace where I'm compiling the list (and other people are adding to it too).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ??? Eric mentioned in his email: The results were quite interesting, with a number of common characteristics emerging.

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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. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know.

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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. Useful for you personally or organizationally? Not at all?

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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. person in the know??? so to speak.

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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. The beauty of ChaCha is that it can hook you up with the person that knows. I asked him to help me find a list of conferences that people who work in nonprofits might find valuable to attend. I thanked her.

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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. Carmen left me a follow up comment.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

It’s not personal. Well this week you’ll enlist those people in your cause. Work out a deal where you continue to keep mailing to every mid-level donor at least until that donor meets with a major gifts person. Un-personalized email. Our mid-level fundraising listserv has more than 200 active participants.

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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. We put our resources into creating that profile as a way to put a personal touch to those issues as 500 "real" people on his friends list. Nonprofits can use groups).

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. Many people don't follow their followers. Look to see who follows these users and whom they follow and start adding people.

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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. So now my personal Facebook profile is the Administrator of the Oxfam America group (which I can tell you, is less than ideal). They make it a lot harder to interact with people than MySpace does. Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. In fact, it sometimes works best when the responsibility for engaging the online group and planning monthly calls are split between two or more people willing to share the role. How will the CoP members interact?

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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. There was instant rapor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

What are some success stories of people using CitizenSpeak? Despite working with George for over a year, we've never met in person.) I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. People passed the message along and offered tons of advice.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Yes, some people (especially vocal museum staff!) But what about visitors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0 This is a really interesting analysis of Social Networking/Online Community behaviors or personalities based roughly on Myers-Briggs. mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option. We access all orphanages via the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted). It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. About those memory lapses.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

about what he ate for breakfast or one of his personal passions, basketball. I always remind people to document their live events with photos or video. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. directors and senior leaders that use Twitter. I've also.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

The downside is that the person may not say what they're going to say succinctly or you may not gain their trust. I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. The benefit of not negotiating the interview off camera is that you get a certain energy. I tend to negotiate off-camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

another person Vicki tagged was Doug Johnson , author of the Indispensable Teacher's Guide To Computer Skills. 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. Does it make me think of a person?

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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). They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. To make sure people know that they are being read inside the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

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. Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group.

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