Change

Okay, I’ve been using Yahoo! groups (and their earlier incarnations) for several applications. I’ve also used other mailing lists (majordomo, and mailman) for 20 years or so, and none of my communities have used much other than the mailing list provided by Yahoo!. Here are a few notes I wrote up for one of the [...]

A wiki is an online knowledgebase built by a community of contributors. For now, wiki.bbvx.org is such a system for AAUW — though the “community of contributors”  is awfully small.
The question of how to use wikis in nonprofit organizations came up on the NTEN Discussion Group, and the fabulous Beth Kanter summarized resources on the [...]

Just a few quick notes about fundraising on Facebook.
The application with the most acceptance is “causes”. But the one that seems most interesting to me is “change”. The first, despite its name, starts with the selection of a nonprofit. The second starts with the end “Empower Youth,” “Achieve Pay Equity” and then allows the network [...]

Quoted (?) on the Information Systems Forum (so “I” is either Deborah Elizabeth Finn or Caroline Meeks):
There’s some thought going around that Facebook is going to end up as the de facto front end for a lot of online social networking, and I think that nonprofits should seriously consider a united strategy for [...]

My branch president forwarded the following:
We were really intrigued by a chart we saw that showed the vast differences in volunteer retention among the 50 states, ranging from a high of 76.4 percent in Minnesota to a low of 47.2 percent in Mississippi. It seemed to us like there must be some pretty solid managerial [...]