Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

But give it time. Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. As Marnie notes, "I've often had a hard time inside a taxonomonical (is that a word?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 We looked at the museum map on the wall. There’s the “I can’t read the map” problem. When the aggregate names are abstract, it’s hard to know what to expect. It had considerably fewer than 1.3 million nodes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. How can we do that? Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

We're still days away, but you can try to make the time go faster by participating in Slate's " The People's Inaugural Address ", an experiment in collaborative writing. To help: You'll probably want a map of some sort. Tag things! Tags: NPTech inauguration flickr twitter google maps iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. We have seen awareness campaigns like World Wildlife Federation’s “wildlife watch&# (next time you see wildlife, Tweet it with the hashtag #wwf!), and news streams like #earthtweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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MARCH 5, 2009

I know they'd suck up too much time. "Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns. Tags: NPTech stumbleupon idealistnews.org idealist.org reddit web2.0 That's cool. I wonder how that relates to rates of alcohol abuse?"

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

These groups do share and coordinate their efforts in various ways, but it is still difficult to get accurate and timely information online about who is doing what work, where, and what work is successful ? One approach to aggregate this information is to do it by brute force, to manually collect and post this info on a web site property ?

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web. We did some research around this issue and published a white paper detailing the case for integrating time-honored emergency response expertise with real-time social input. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Leave it in the comments.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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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. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic. World Institute.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? Tags: Global Health. Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work. how to organize and make accessible the huge quantity of data that already exists (and that will grow as sharing increases).

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Why nothing about social aggregators ? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0

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JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Make it portable.

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JULY 23, 2009

The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Christine Herron suggests the Electric Company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). Now say that five times fast! They use social media to achieve goals of increased transparency and increased donations of blood, time, and money. She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. In that order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Because using story well is our great chance in public media to be the leaders of our time. In these times of great upheaval, as it is becoming more and more clear that these tories we’ve used for the past century or so are less and less viable, we need new and compelling stories. Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk. How do we do this?

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JULY 28, 2010

With this information, you can make decisions on how to consolidate information in other locations, reorganize your site map, or identify links to external sites that may be drawing users away from your site. Check back with your analytics to see where people are dropping off and where they're aggregating.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Who has time for Video? He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Gilbert commented.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

If you want people to be able to tag artifacts with keywords, comments, or ratings, you need a unique identifier for each artifact, a way for visitor submissions to populate a database, and automated programs for aggregation and display of visitor data. It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection. And simple.

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