Jayne Online
My Social Media Profiles & Blogs, &
Internet/Online Communities/Discussion Groups In Which I Participate
Jayne
A Broad Facebook page
How do I use social media?
My
Fan page on Facebook
I use my fan page to post links to online resources I've
developed or revised, resources or information I think would
be of valuable to nonprofits, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), government-based community programs and other
mission-based organizations, as well as information related
to engaging volunteers, humanitarian / development / aid,
communications, tech4good, ICT4D, Free & Open Source
technologies (particularly those that can benefit
nonprofits, NGOs and government programs) . I also note here
when I have published
a new blog, published a new Tech4Impact
newsletter, upload a
new video, It can be anywhere from 1 to 5 posts a day.
If you follow me on
Twitter, you won't see much different information on
Facebook from me.
You can also subscribe to this Facebook fan page via RSS: 
Me
on GooglePlus 
I use this in exactly the same way that I use my
Fan page on Facebook: exact same postings (when I
remember that I have a GooglePlus account)
My
@jcravens42 Twitter feed 
This is my primary social media and online community
interaction. My tweets, and those I follow, are
regarding nonprofits and NGOs, engaging volunteers,
humanitarian / development / aid, communications,
tech4good, women & girls, Afghanistan,
ICT4D, Free & Open Source technologies (particularly
those that can benefit nonprofits, NGOs and government
programs) and parks / tourism for development (development
in the sense of community and human development). I
also post about updates to my web site and new
blog posts, interact with other Twitter users and
participate in Tweetchats. I can post or retweet up to 50
things in an entire day (particularly when I'm
participating in a tweet chat). But tweets are quite
staggered. If I already follow you on Facebook or Twitter
or LinkedIn, or already subscribe to your email
newsletter, and your Twitter feed is pretty much just a
regurgitation of those, then I won't follow you on Twitter
(and that's not a criticism! Just means I don't want to
muddle up my Twitter feed with information I already get
elsewhere). Keywords I follow on Twitter:
#volunteer
#volunteers
#VolunTweet
#microvolunteering
#globalservice
#TechSoupDYB
#ttvolmgrs
(Thursday
Tweet chat re: volunteer engagement)
#vmlearn
#CSR
#nonprofits
#nonprofit
#ngos
#NP
#NPTwitter
#humanitarian
#ict4d
#TechWomen
#WomenInTech
#Tech4Good
#nptech
#digitaldivide
#VirtualTeams
#distributedteams
#workshifting
#foss
#opensource
#womensrights
My
blog 
I blog regarding nonprofits and NGOs and all organizations
that serve people rather than profits, engaging
volunteers, humanitarian / development / aid,
communications, tech4good, women & girls, Afghanistan,
and parks / tourism for development (development
in the sense of community and human development). I
also sometimes post about traveling and causes I
personally support. You can follow
this blog via RSS, like me on Facebook,
or add
me to a circle on GooglePlus, or follow
me on Twitter to know when I upload something new.
Me
on YouTube 
There's not much here. Just two
professional videos, and two videos of my dog Albi. More
in 2012! To know when I update my YouTube channel,
subscribe to any of the aforementioned social media
feeds.
This Facebook fan page is where I follow USA state parks,
national parks, national forests, and organizations
focused on sustainable tourism, getting children, women
and under-represented groups outdoors, and related
international organizations and sites. My travel-related
tweets from the my jayne_a_broad twitter feed (see
below) get posted here automatically. It's about learning
and sharing regarding tourism as a tool for economic
and community development - and the importance of
travel for our personal
and educational growth.
My
@jayne_a_broad Twitter feed
This Twitter feed is focused on my experiences traveling,
camping, riding my motorcycle or my bicycle, taking mass
transit (buses and trains), commuting by walking or
bicycling, and various other mostly-personal interests,
including politics. If you are a woman motorcyclist, a
non-spandex-wearing bicycle commuter or girlie-bike rider,
an international adventure or budget traveler, a
motorcycle traveler, a mass transit advocate, or a writer
or researcher regarding any of these subjects, you might
enjoy this Twitter feed. It's
about learning and sharing regarding tourism as a tool
for economic
and community development
- and the importance of travel for our personal
and educational growth.
Tech4Impact email
newsletter
Even with all of the various social media out there, some people still
prefer email communications. That's why I still publish my Tech4Impact
email newsletter. It comes out once a month, and has more than 800
subscribers. It focuses on at least one resource related to technology
and nonprofits, and then lists all of the blog subjects that have been
posted since the last issue.
Online Discussion Groups
There are MANY online discussion groups relating mission-based/public sector management, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, computers and their effect on communities, net activism, volunteerism, etc. Some are on web-based platforms, like YahooGroups, GoogleGroups or a platform of their own, or are via email, like on a ListServ or Majordomo software, and most are a combination of the two (with subscribers having the power to receive messages either via email or via the web, as they like). Below are the groups I frequent.
SUBSCRIBE ARNOVA-L
Digital
Inclusion (was the Digital Divide Network)
An email-based discussion group to discuss the wide range of issues
related to bridging the digital divide and access to online resources.
Join here.
Eldis Community
A free online community for people involved in international
development. The Community is web-based, but members can also choose
to receive email notifications from the site when new content is added
(and can also post messages to group discussions by email). Eldis
is an online effort that shares full-text documents free to download,
subject-focused guides, country profiles, email newsletters on 35
topics, newsfeeds, and other information to help those working in
development policy, practice and research.
E-Voluntas
Un espacio en red de intercambio de experiencias, información,
reflexión y buenas prácticas de voluntariado.
humanitarian-ict
Discussion for projects, agencies and initiatives that use ICT to help
in managing relief, recovery & rehabilitation efforts in disaster
or post-conflict areas.
International Society for
Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
ISTR is a major international association promoting research and
education in the fields of philanthropy, civil society and the
nonprofit sector. ISTR reflects the growing worldwide interest in
Third Sector research and provides a permanent forum for international
research, while at the same time building a global scholarly community
in this field.
Online
Volunteering (in German only)
This is a German-language online discussion group (no English!) for
organizations in Germany (and, I guess, any German-speakers anywhere)
who use the Internet, or want to use the Internet, to recruit, involve
or support volunteers. I suspect that basic discussions about
volunteer management in general will also come up, since there is no
other online group that discusses this.
NetSquared
I often get asked where online
volunteering is headed. I think the peek into the future is via
NetSquared - so much so that
I dedicated an entire page on my own site
to its efforts. The organizations posting here rarely talk about
volunteers by name (instead, they talk about community involvement,
client interaction, citizen engagement, constituent relationships,
etc. -- which, ofcourse, means volunteering!), but the tools and
methods they talk about are, to me, the future of volunteerism. The
conversations can be highly "techie", but the group is mostly very
kind to people who ask for clarifications.
OZVPM - Australasian
Volunteer Management
Questions, resources and some healthy debate about volunteerism in
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and throughout the broader
Australasian region. To join, visit the
OZVPM web site or send a blank email to
ozvpm-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
riders-news
Information of interest to those who work with nonprofit organizations
and NGOs to help them with computer issues. Not a discussion group,
but open to members to post announcements. To join, visit riders
news web site.
TechSoup
Community
I'm the moderator for the Volunteers
and Technology branch of the TechSoup forum. I reach the other
branches, and post frequently to Accessible
Technology and Public Computing.
The Thorn Tree
An online platform by Lonely
Planet. I contribute mostly to the Afghanistan, Responsible
Travel and the Gap Year & RTW travel branches.
UKVPMs
A "lively, friendly and participative" networking and communication
resource for all Volunteer Programme Managers working in the United
Kingdom. UKVPMs mission is to increase the scope, scale and quality of
both voluntary activity and the management of volunteers, by bringing
Volunteer Programme Managers together in a virtual community to
develop their skills and knowledge for the purpose of taking action
towards our common goals. To subscribe, visit the web site or send a
blank e-mail to:
UKVPMs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
You can find an Internet discussion group for just about any subject or geographic area (and if you cannot find such, why not start your own? I think YahooGroups is the best free platform out there, by far). For advice on how to find such groups, and how to learn to participate in online groups, see this resource, The dynamics of online culture & community.
Also see what blogs are in my RSS
reader
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