Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" Official Google Blog: Bringing tech knowledge to nonprofits through the HandsOn Tech Corps – "Community service has always been important to us. When thinking of ways we can give back, we often focus on where our strengths lie—namely, in technical knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

Content curation can provide visibility, but before you can reap results you have identify the opportunity — a campaign, announcement of a new program, or release of policy information – to curate news and information around your topic. The secret to good curation is the selection of the best and most relevant material.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I was honored to write a feature article in the recent issue of the NTEN journal called “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload.” His deep knowledge of the practices and the tools is impressive. You can register for the webinar here. And, of course, I’ll also cover the tools.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

By bringing together the expertise of leaders from across sectors with the power of Salesforce technology and pro bono talent, this Impact Lab will aim to generate shareable insights and create a solution that supports the work of small-scale farmers in enabling them to make proactive, informed decisions. Why Small-Scale Farmers? Eric Munoz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I’ve discovered some wonderful discussion threads about one of my favorite topics: Information Overload and Strategies for Coping. As George Siemens points out the issue of information overload is not new. Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

After some results from routine tests during my annual physical, my doctor informed me that my cholesterol was high. ”Start exercising more and stop eating bacon cheese burgers ” were the doctor’s orders and we’ll retest in 6 months. Would you be willing to share your personal health information with researchers?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Jen Talansky Vice President, Knowledge and Communications. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We want to know, and we want to share this knowledge with the world.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Social and Community-Based Learning: The experience within an LXP occurs through both formal and informal learning.

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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. Examples from Haiti.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Go all-in on enhancing your knowledge of some components that may feel unfamiliar. Not only will they have access to product demonstrations and a knowledgeable sales team, they may, depending on the nature of your virtual event, have unprecedented access to industry experts who can provide more context for your product or service.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It's not uncommon to see the "official" hashtag included with the promotional information about the event, even events or conferences that are not technology focused. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. The hashtag creates a backchannel for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Input” usually means getting others to provide information of some kind such as feedback on an initiative or ideas for new campaigns or even to get answers to questions. But you are also relying on the knowledge, skills and even honesty of the crowd to get to that “right” answer. Does it help you solve a problem? You’ve raised $11,000?

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Forj

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Professional education also allows your members to maintain and enhance their knowledge base so they can deliver the best possible services. She will be informing her audience about the solutions that learning experience platforms use including aggregation, curation, personalization, and creation. Increased Revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

When consider crowdsourcing in the above context as a method for obtaining pertinent information and perspective from relatively large numbers of people, it is useful to differentiate between it and collective intelligence, a related concept. In Surowiecki’s terms this represents its collective wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. What blog posts and information has Louis Gray read and digested on Friendfeed? Has anyone experimented with filtering or using it for knowledge sharing? Why should you use it?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

connecting organizations for shared knowledge, partnerships and coalitions. For example, using Social Actions (which aggregates actionable opportunities from across the web), you could pull all of the actions related to your organization’s specific environmental focus and push them out via Twitter or your website, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

I told Zuckerberg that he now has the modern-day railroad in his grasp and challenged him to both win our trust and not abuse the major power he’s going to aggregate. According to the article, in the past, you were asked if wanted to share your personal information with each app that wanted to access your profile. This has now changed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Manager of Knowledge Resources, Research and Academic Affairs, ASU Lodestar Center. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2009

Over 100 people showed up to talk about how we can make aid more transparent and do a better job of sharing knowledge and lessons learned across organizations, projects, topics, and countries. IDML or International Development Markup Language is an emerging XML standard for aid information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. They're identifiable subject matter experts who dive through mountains of digital information and distill it down to its most relevant, essential parts.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. We are definitely pro-that. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. We are definitely pro-that. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011.

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Haiti Africa Aggregator NTEN 52

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

And true to her good form, Beth doesn't simply announce her new site , she reflects on all the steps and experiences that got her to the new site, which is pretty informative and inspiring in itself(but that shouldn't surprise anyone who regularly reads Beth's Blog). Check out their project -- it's a great example !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Even better than the numbers was the knowledge nuggets shared. And, ah, I found the secret sauce: Simply Asking Questions That Allow People To Share Their Knowledge and Ideas sparks engagement! NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. To reference earlier points in the hype curve, xAPI is what the ACCME should be using to analyze the aggregate educational value of CME activities. You’ll notice that right away below the fold. Innovation Trigger.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are committed to emphasizing feedback and learning to close the knowledge gaps,” Jennifer observed. Today, it might be providing a web view customized to preference, highly segmented campaign messaging, or simply having detailed information instantly at hand for a service call. Consolidate tech islands.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 2, 2008

A great step forward for your informal user support desk is to provide them with a few procedures and tools that can help them be effective and efficient in this function. It's remarkable what even the simplest ticketing system for tracking user requests will do for your informal help desk operation. for the entire organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

wondering if i might poke my nose into this knowledge building experiment. are not) and how knowledge transfers from one to another in 'first wave' (technologically savvy) proto-communities. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

What the Hashtag is a simple tool for aggregating tweets into a transcript and some simple stats, but after experiencing Marc Meyerand Jason Breed ’s Hashtag Social Media Chat and their tool that aggregates tweets, I need to do some re-thinking. Hashtag Stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . Much of what we know now is the new model, but our knowledge is Implicit. knowledgeable about semantic computing processes.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

This means that if a user has an active session on Facebook (meaning they are logged into the browser) and visits your site, the widget will be able to detect their identity and gather highly relevant information about them. Rapleaf has an API for personalization that provides you some knowledge of your constituents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. Tag Mentoring: The flip side -- the intentional use of tagging to share what you know with another person or persons informally.

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