Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Via the On Social Marketing and Social Change Blog summarizing an article in the NYTimes. Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. This caught my eye. social software,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

This session will teach you some techniques that you can immediately put into practice and help you work more efficiently and effectively, enabling you to achieve more in less time and ultimately increase the return of your efforts. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources.

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AUGUST 9, 2005

I'm not sure software innovation will do anything about easing ego problems, but it has certainly eased the need to travel between Virginia and Philadelphia to work on a document together. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. My Curated Lists and Wikis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There are easily a dozen articles in this first issue about our new website, international work and many more. I'm quite excited about a new initiative which is the last article in the newsletter. It's amazing to me how much our team has gotten done over the last year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. On a lighter note, take a few minutes to view this hillarious video, WikiKitchen , on how to turn your kitchen into a wiki. Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog."

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. VRM tools, on the other hand, work on the side of the individual donor. In a larger scope, individuals who work at nonprofits use systems that capture data and information about them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Wikis as a natural solution for unstructured information. Related articles by Zemanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

This post provides a context for crowdsourcing since Jeff Howe coined the term "crowdsourcing" in his Wired article " The Rise of Crowdsourcing. " It also lays out an argument of crowdsourcing for problem solving. Nitrogen Wiki . I just wanted to capture a couple of examples that came to me this week, well, through crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

First though, I want to dedicate this post to one of my hero philanthropists, whose spirit ImpactRising’s work strives to embody. In that spirit, I’m excited to introduce ImpactRising.org as a resource to nonprofits and the consultants they work with. A model of generosity. What ImpactRising.org offers. I think he’d be proud.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

A social media manager app will help prevent you from committing the absolute biggest social media faux pas: Accidentally posting something to your work account that was supposed to go to your personal account. Buffer App (Android, iOS) allows you to easily share articles, photos, videos, and status updates to various social networks.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

The information about specific products proved most popular, followed by our articles, then the forums and webinars. " The individual product pages were considered most useful, followed by webinars, then articles (70-80% of respondents rated these resources a 4 or a 5). " But in-depth articles and webinars are useful , too.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Wikis are just great for that! I'm not complaining.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Content Curation on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

There is a terrific article on Mashable by Lon S. Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits. If you work for a nonprofit and have an amazing Twitter story, leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater , a place where you try out experimental works before you bring them to the main stage. I was incredibly lucky to have a fantastic group of participants , all passionate about their work, very knowledgeable, and excited about integrating social media into their programs or communications plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. There are also some draft recommendations for individuals working within advocacy movements. You can updates through RSS.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise. Sometimes this will escalate into a collaboration -- an article, faq, how to piece written on a wiki or elsewhere. " We???ll

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

Clive Thompson's article in the latest Wired on " The Future of Reading " is a compelling read. In this context I'd say "idea discovery", or "policy discovery" is enhanced by having that content get picked up and commented on, cut-n-pasted into blog posts, snippets linked to from course curricula, woven into other people's work, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It is called " The Art of Social Web " Coolcat Teacher blog gives a wonderful post about how blogging is a work in progress - she concludes blogging is more like football than a once in a lifetime performance at Carnegie Hall. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Yet another great example of using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. Scores of additional articles, guides and tutorials to help newcomers and veterans alike get better acquainted with this fast-moving space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Upwell, an organization incubated by the Ocean Conservancy and that works in a different way to support Ocean Conservation is using social media data, campaign experiments, and failing fast and learning fast to get impact.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For a rundown on what all these components are, check out our hardware basics article. Specifically, it's a tool to help students explore how hardware works, try Linux, and learn to program. Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. This article was originally published at: [link]. Community Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

TechSoup publishes Soha El-Borno excellent post " Promote Your Cause on Facebook in Six Easy Steps " and do check out her interview with Carie Lewis from the Human Society about their work on Facebook. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! and Katya A. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group !

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. I am honored to work with a global community of learners who bravely embrace new media while striving to maintain the high standards of traditional librarianship and academic credibility," said Dr. Hill. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

Todays foray took me dipping into the NGO Learning Wiki where I discovered Capacity.org. It is described as "a web magazine-cum-portal intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in or on capacity development in international cooperation in the South." Back to the article. Conference. their internal motivations ???fuel???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Rashimi Sinha's article was very informative. What's funny, of course, is that Rashimi Sinha works for Slide Share! It is another excellent example of "pivot" browsing, similar to del.icio.us where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. Here they are, in no particular order: Government 2.0.

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