Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Information Coping Skills: Turn off the damn computer and go for a walk. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You? Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener. Online Community Engagement Strategies. Vote for All These Awesome Nonprofit Panels At SXSW. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2008

J oin Cisco for a fascinating 60-minute video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 and author of "How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk to Customers" The Webcast airs April 3rd, 2008 at 10am PST. Click here for more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. Take this three question quick quiz: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

at a much faster pace than the business world, with 75 percent using some form of social media like blogs, social networking sites, podcasts, wikis or other formats. Since this is only a sneak peak at the executive summary and charts, it will be interesting to read the forthcoming papers to be published in 2008. And if you???re

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.)

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. They can house key resources & event materials/background resources, or bulletin boards for ride sharing, or contact information for people coming in from the same city, etc.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

The AIDS.gov website is a gateway to all Federal domestic HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and research information. The website is the primary channel through which we communicate HIV information to our community, Federal partners, and people living with, or at-risk for, HIV. DC Central Kitchen. Create urgency.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

My friend Beth Kanter, of Beth's Blog , is working hard to win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation by January 31, 2008 as part of the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. Beth has set up a wiki with information, photos and a fundraising widget that you can include in an email or blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. You are not only able to re-play them but also embed the meeting on your blogs, wikis or other social media sites. Thus, you can use Palbee for small group video meetings but also, you can use it for presentation, teaching, or any other information delivery. One last thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Some are calling it impact investing. Those noted that we need to listen better to the people doing the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.)

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. but pack in a tremendous amount of information. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc).

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. over email.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy. All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. 3 AJ 07.16.08 There is no implication of it being free, although much of it is. 5 Ron 08.11.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Listening and Learning: You're monitoring what stakeholders are saying about your organization, your issue, or programs and using the information to support your marketing goals. While secondary research may help inform what general direction you may want to go in, there is no substitute for primary research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Gone Green(er).

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

60) Search « Dreaming of a Wiki? There are many websites available that are providing the information on Anti-Spamming Solutions but most of this information is either irrelevant or not useful. Main | Is Going Local the Next Big Thing in Online Activism? All rights reserved.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

This article summarizes new research from Forrester detailing "The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace." Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here. Can't afford to visit Bali?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Information Age Volunteerism from The Extraordinaries. There are numerous examples in NTEN's WeAreMedia Wiki focused marketing and fundraising objectives. Neff from the America Cancer Society quipped during our panel at SXSW, "Twitter meetups just to meet are so 2008. Unicef's Rapid SMS. As my colleague David J.

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