Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Doing a living case study with Wendy Harman provided a chance to catch up her current practice. Tags: wearemedia.

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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 resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. Tags: policy. The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. . I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. See my other posts on social media policy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. generators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. (executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. Yet another great example of using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. . Want to write a mini case study or guest post, please sign up here or leave a comment if you'd like to do an interview. Tags: transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). How to identify and do more case studies?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

link] is a climate change wiki. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link]. Kinda technical, but for any nerds the drupal.org profile of TckTckTck is worth a look [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

wiki name ( done ). replace old name on the text in the wiki (need some help!). retag all the items tagged in del.icio.us ( done ) (can a tag be trademarked?). re-do the screencasts on the wiki (will redo over the weekend. Stuff to change: logo (done). get domain name (done - wearemedia.org ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

All this will be shared through a lively mix of discussion and case studies. Good feedback and sharing on the back channel using custom tag #ntcmap. Tags: 09ntc listening. We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. Takeaways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. Tags: experimentation twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. You can dig deeper into the details over at the wiki as each participant shared a one-page “lab report.&# The experiments were very focused initial forays into social media. Tags: Movement Building Networked Nonprofit Networks Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

The inspiration for some of the ideas in this module came from Chris Brogan , CCTV's VT Nonprofit Tools Wiki and a question raised by Nancy Schwartz in the first module. To understand how to best link your social media strategy with your organization's "traditional" Internet/marketing communications plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to change the world. I'm the first to admit that I have consumed way too much of the Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings. Their mother might be in one of those photos. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Specifically, the workshop goals were: Introducing and applying network tools, frameworks, and case studies that can help network leaders assess their effectiveness and increase their impact. The game wiki is here. Tags: scholar. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Described the features and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Curated by NTEN, the community will worked in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. So, what's my role in all of this? We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

In a networked nonprofit, VCs might mine their personal and professional networks for ideation, best practices, and case studies to learn how organizations are engaging volunteers effectively. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Opportunity Design. Supervised or supported service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. Deborah Finn was a participant and shared some of her thoughts here.

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Care2

MAY 14, 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 Wiki's to Google Earth and Twittter. Two tools include: Tags: Case Studies Conferences Online Advocacy Social Networking Technology Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Text messaging. What People Were Saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. Tags: interview resources expert fundraising london ncvo presentation socialbysocial wearemedia. For more: Messages, Stories, and Conversations: Creating a Strategy for your organization and your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

So, I demonstrated how to tag a person in a wall post and posted the question: Manny Hernadez : Should an organization that serves both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking audience (and some only speak one language) have two different Fan Pages in the native language? Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign.

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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. They also tag and analyze responses. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter. Content Curation on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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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. Read the full case study here. You can read the full case study here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If you know of some fabu nonprofits that are using these tools and want them to be highlighted, just register (if you haven't already), login, go to the "Put Your Voice in the Mix" page: click on "submit your case study" and fill out the form. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008. Tags: goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).   We didn't drill down into the tools at all - most mostly concepts and case studies.    I have two workshops coming up where that might be the case.  I set up a wiki. Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.   Hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. Tags: change management. The book, written in 2002, does not address social media and change management or even technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. This week we'll be discussing Module 1: Why Your Nonprofit Organization Should Be The Media.

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