Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. i.e. Can you email me the job desc?

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. ") The winners will be announced at the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. He writes: Nonprofits have approached collaboration or information sharing,particularly using internet tools as a resource, through several disciplines. Another, more focused on the tools of collaboration, is KnowledgeManagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. Marty is convinced that the answer on how the nonprofit can understand and survive this meltdown is out there in network and has set up a space for us to kick it around. The paper is called Cascading Failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Do we have examples of using nonprofits using social media for: Volunteer or board recruitment strategy. How can social media people at different organizations collaborate to form action networks? You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. Ooutreach or educational program delivery.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. 1) Drupal Organic Groups: Organic Groups is a module of Drupal, which allows for discussions, wikis and the like. I’m sure I’ll miss some, so please add more in comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. I love the collaboration features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Second Wave Adoption Check out Nancy White's Second Wave Adoption thats creating waves in the educational technology and nonprofit technology blogosphere. The concept is simple as Nick Booth writes: "Some people really get it and move quickly to innovate in the way they collaborate online. Newly Discovered NpTech Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans , or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. Photo by Laughing Squid.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories : "Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories How two orgs have built and maintained active, vibrant wikis By: Brian Satterfield December 8, 2006 As emerging Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. In that spirit, here are some leading open-source solutions in three categories relevant to nonprofits: CRM. Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! Nonprofits Live! A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits. Game Audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. But that’s it. For the full post, visit the SSIR blog here.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

I was invited to give a keynote at a gathering of 300 IT leaders and managers who work for a large healthcare nonprofit. To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2013

Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Michael Hoffman is the CEO of See3 Communications and is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and a long-time consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising and outreach strategies. About CommBuild.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

At TechSoup, we know that many nonprofits and libraries serve Spanish-speaking communities in everything from teaching English as a second language, to financial and educational services, to local family- and health-related programs. Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Note from Beth: As part of the research for our book, Allison Fine and I are looking at transparency and openness what it means for the way nonprofits do their work. 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. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." Via a post on David Wilcox's blog entitled " What does it take for online collaboration to work at events?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

We have techie centers that run their nonprofits using the latest technology, and we have a few centers that don't yet have websites or even use accounting software. We were also introduced to this really cool guy, John Kenyon (you might have heard of him), who helped us solve our problem with one word: wiki. Fast forward to Jan.

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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. You may have heard the words, but what do they really mean for nonprofit organizations? And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. for nonprofits. 20" or "Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet by Ben Greenberg about a presentation he was preparing about blogging behind the firewall which lead to my post, " Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach " Patrick Lambe riffs on this: ???The Email: The Good Enough Collaboration Tool. and Office 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Deborah Finn has fallen in love with Wikis and has started an entry for nonprofit technology. Wouldn't using a wiki be a great platform to collaborate on nonprofit technology standards ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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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. Technology for Communities project. What is working?

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. NPSM Social Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. Check out the TweetChat on July 11 for a quick introduction on how it translates to nonprofit and library work. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list. on Slideshare.

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