Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Social Media and Grantmaking Session at Council on Foundation’s Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Arts Summit 2008: The Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations - Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find the slides and resources at my Arts and Social Media wiki. I've been keeping an inner ear for that and when I spew jargon - I mock myself in front of the group and translate. It gets a good laugh.

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What’s the Secret to Social Media Success? Cute Animal Theory

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was also a nod to the &# Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O’Reilly’s E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel of Wired Blog). Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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More About Widgets for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. KaTREEna Plantometer Every Human Has Rights 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference The Niapele Project $40 for 40 Years of Fair Housing.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener. Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You? BackType: Another Listening Tool. Twitter Isn't Pointless, It's Pointilism. The Best Free Sources of Social Media Audience Research. Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers.

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An Act of Reciprocity got Cisco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. applications are creating a "mass collaboration" paradigm.

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