Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

.  I've done the game using this approach (see the workshop notes and reflections from Meyer Memorial Trust) and keeping open-ended an letting one person in the small group be the "client."       On the cards, he defines the tools, provides a question, and url. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. More here ). *

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

What stuck out about this experience was putting the focus on the interpersonal gameplay and interactions rather than the content experience. In 45 minutes, we were able to make some sophisticated observations about how to change the rules to reflect a wide variety of underlying values or goals. It had a very simple structure.

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