Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

Photo by Joel Zimmer The annual Day of Service at the NTEN NTC Conference has been a tradition since 2000. In addition to the one-on-one consulting (captured by WeAreMedia Flickr BootCamp folks), a large group of nonprofit techies headed out to install two wireless networks, with equipment provided by Cisco, at the St.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. The problem with Google Code is that it’s *explicitly* for small projects.

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Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. Mobile phones. Tablets/Touchscreen devices. Voice Recorders. Floppy disks/CD-ROMs. Sometimes the problem is the technology -- or rather, inappropriate technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Given our multiple team members, we use a wiki as an easy-to-use online collaborative space, where we keep a calendar of upcoming blog topics and draft blog posts. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. Jennie Anderson is is a Consultant at John Snow, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Check out the wiki. That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. Stuart Holland, a web consultant at TerpSys with more than seven years of experience, works closely with each client to ensure open communication and to architect sites that further the organization's goals. By Stuart Holland, Sr. Web Developer, TerpSys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The winners get $65,000 in-kind contributions of consulting, hardware, and software. " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 Second, is bookmarking.

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JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Please join us online on September 13th, 10am Pacific for our NTEN Webinar, The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function to look at additional examples of sites getting social. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. More buzz here.

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JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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APRIL 18, 2007

I know it is awfully Web 1.0 of me, but what I really want is something powerful that just works locally. The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2] Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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MARCH 30, 2011

For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content. TechSmith also makes cool free/paid video capture Jing as well more complex Camtasia – all good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. See below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. 12 David Geilhufe 01.27.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I should mention that ReadyTalk has been the official webinar provider and sponsor for NTEN [link] for the last few years…congrats on your recent appointment to the NTEN board, btw. We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. Interesting post, thanks for clarifying our list rates vs. NP rates.

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The Non-profit Consultant. Michael Steins NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY BLOG. Mission-Based Management. Net Squared from Techsoup. Nicks Book Blog. Non-Profit Tech Blog. Non-Profit Web Design Blog. Principled Innovation LLC. Random Thoughts on Life and Work. The Association Renewal Blog. The Bamboo Project Blog. The Integrator. Reader Polls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. Young Einstein. The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

FLYyouthDC is creating a social media plan using the WeAreMedia wiki. Johanna Bates, who has worked for a community organization in Massachusetts that will close its doors at the end of year, will venture in the world of consulting. The longer-term goal is to be a resource to other agencies that participate in the partnership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising. Mike Seyfang, a nonprofit technology consultant in Austraila, tells us to avoid YouTube if you want to get remixed and mashedup. " The holiday season is also time to donate your time to a cause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

You have to pay to use their corporate wiki software “Confluence&# , but they bundle the source code with the licence so you can customise (and improve) the software yourself. .&# The “free&# aspect of open source is definitely a draw to the neophyte; that doesn’t mean that proprietary is the only way to go afterwards.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). at 5:53 am BuddyPress is amazing… but it lacks wiki’s and document sharing… which are two massive shortcomings for it’s use as a sharing and collaboration network for organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: The most recent is a roundup of posts addressing the question of how nonprofit communicators can cut through the clutter to engage overloaded audiences. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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