Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. The problem with Google Code is that it’s *explicitly* for small projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The social media game can be found here.

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JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. Check out the wiki. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. It wasn't in my wiki and so I just added. 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. Update: I remembered!

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

This week on the NpTech Tag call, the idea of social search was referenced. Search engines keep improving, sometimes imperceptibly, but my money's on social search. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. We'll find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Social and Mobile Staff. Internet Director.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

to be held Friday, June 1, 2007, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at the Photronics Center at Boston, University. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites. Here's the wiki I created with resources, links, and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Gustav Wiki. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center.

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MARCH 22, 2007

tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging - and a remarkable 35% said they were already using all six of the tools. In January 2007, McKinsey surveyed some 2,800 executives - not just CIOs - from around the world. Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

A student of various dialogue approaches, he was an integral member of the team that developed the World Cafe dialogue process and was director of community outreach from 1997 to 2007 for The World Café Community Foundation. Ken serves on the Circle of Stewards for The Bay Area Society for Organizational Learning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. BTW, I exercised great discipline and only have two social bookmarking accounts! And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. 3 Beth 12.01.06 at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. Nonprofit Tech Blog points us to the Nonprofit Success Guide wiki.

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JUNE 18, 2008

About a year ago, I did a lot of research on a screencast about widgets for nonprofits and put together two wikis - Nonprofit Widgets (for a session at 2007 NTC Conference) and Fundraising Widget. | View | Upload your own. Alas, travel schedule prevented me from hearing it live, but Peter posted his slides and examples.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Next a final look at the final KM4DEV call for papers for June, 2007 Issue called " Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development" (I'm a guest editor along with Nancy White, Beverly Traynor, and Lucie Lamoureux - others to join.)

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APRIL 24, 2007

For this panel, I'm contributing a community wiki about the topic here. Here is the official announcement : Games for Change is proud to announce that registration is now open for the Fourth Annual Games for Change Festival, to be held in New York City, June 11-12, 2007! As one of last year???s Sign up now at.

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MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. and Social Media trends. Social networking. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). October 2007 (14). October 2007 (14).

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AUGUST 9, 2007

San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. To date, they have created a community blog and a resource-rich wiki, and have held mixed-reality events, workshops, and regular weekly town hall meetings. Generously donated by the world???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. " Web 2.0,

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JANUARY 20, 2007

In cooperation with Amoration AMO Studios, NMC Campus is hosting a large scale art event February 11-13, 2007. Information on the event will be announced via the NMC Campus Observer ( [link] ) and posted to our Campus Wiki Guide ( [link] ).

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MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Deadline March 23, 2007. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. What roles are needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? nonprofit technology.

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JANUARY 31, 2007

3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding 3, Issue 1, to be published in June 2007, will focus on innovative practices and uses of ???technologies Submission deadline for the title and abstract 28 February 2007. Acceptance of paper proposal 15 March 2007. Submission of paper 15 April 2007. Call for Papers.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The residency will take place during the Icommons Summit 2007 in Croatia. s name to the iCommons wiki. During the residency, the artists will be exploring different themes around what it means to be an artist creating in a digital world. Different presentation methods: what is the archival value of art made available online?

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AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. What does this have to do with nonprofits and social media?

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