NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. Wikis/Blogs. More and more people are comfortable using the tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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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." Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc., " - there was a comment by Brian Kelly pointing to some of his resources on the topic.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. Launch something and see what happens. Want mapping?

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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. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So, go over to the wiki and add your best how-to resource and you could win a t-shirt. And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. Launch something and see what happens. Want mapping?

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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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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

" He continues: "So, we are going to change our strategy to devote 100% of our resources to building the winning product to capture this big opportunity. At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. www.groupsite.com.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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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. Additional TechSoup Resources. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list. Eight Tools to keep your team connected. Webinar recording: Online Collaboration Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match. Collaboration via social media has enabled the program to come together and launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. tools into your PR messaging? Something to read before jumping into using the tools. Yet another great example of using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? This focus comes on the wave of new web based tools and processes supporting knowledge sharing, knowledge management and organizational learning that have emerged. Call for Papers. KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

There is also a good list of other resources on this topic: Email is great as it allows very simple unstructured free form correspondence, but it doesn???t Blogs are not the only social tools that can have more impact than just relying on email, check out: Instead of sending an email??? Email: The Good Enough Collaboration Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. What you'll find on the wiki is an online community toolbox for online communities of practice work. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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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. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. Crossplatform and Multichannel Integration: Tools, People, and Information.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2010

How: 6 Tools and Tips. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. What: The art of social instructional design.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. Tags: Collaboration. We've got a number of presentations from various events.

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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. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media.

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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. Another Twitter follower, Holger Nauheimer, pointed me to his blog on change management which has lots of resources. projects in organizations.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

CiviCRM even has some basic HR management tools to help nonprofits keep track of their volunteers, new jobs, and related documents. OpenProject is a web-based project management system designed to help dispersed teams collaborate on projects of varying scope. Human Resources Management (HRM). Project Management.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Create a Windows 8 app focused on social good (collaborations encouraged!). For the purposes of this contest, Microsoft Citizenship recommends the TechSoup Hacker Help Wiki. You can also find Windows 8 developer tools on MSDN and be sure to check out the Microsoft YouthSpark Hub for additional resources. as a reference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Does your organization have access to the technology tools and skills as well as the capacity to collaborate beyond your organization's firewall? I'm going to list sources for some of these tools by general category. These tools can facilitate coordination/discussion/communication amongst key stakeholders about the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

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. I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Farmville and FoldIt (showing the architecture of the AIDS virus) are related in terms of collaboration, crowdsourcing solutions through social play. (JD). Scratch and Game Salad are DIY game tools available for creating games with kids. (JD). To try your hand at game design, try the Grow a Game Cards. (BS).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. " More Hackathon Resources. Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? or Code for Oakland ). The ReStart Challenges.

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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). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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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. This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" So, how does a technology steward strike a balance between being seduced by the tools versus total rejection of the tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. It also serves a resource leave behind! I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. With the resources, tools, and services available in today’s market, accessibility no longer has to be a limiting factor.

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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. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog.

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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 ? Deadline is March 2n.

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