Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). Anna Muoio is a consultant with Monitor Institute. (Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link].

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. Heyman is now a public speaker that provides strategy, messaging, and fundraising consulting for nonprofits and green economy organizations. Embrace it and thrive, or resist and go the way of the technosaur.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. updating relevant Wikipedia pages. . transcribing historical documents ?and?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Even if they do, the cost to implement is never trivial, and requires investment in consultant fees that typically dwarf the cost of using a SaaS solution, or even purchasing a traditional installed solution (such as our desktop version of DonorPerfect, or other installed packages such as Exceed, Sage, etc.)

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Take a minute now to Google yourself and all of your top staff or consultants. I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. You might be surprised at who else comes up. Here it is.

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JULY 6, 2015

Seattle, Washington: Catalyst Consultant Orientation. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Portland, Oregon: PDXTech4Good Summer Social. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Friday, July 10, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. " The concept of authenticity in branding and marketing was the theme explored in a blog carnival for nonprofit consultants last July. s sometimes downright scary."

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Wikipedia sums it up nicely : "A blog carnival is a type of blog event. The Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants was started by Kivi Leroux Miller of Nonprofit Communications. Do you have a blog about making the world a better place that you want more people to read? This month it was hosted by Gayle Roberts of Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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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. Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. Is your nonprofit planning to participate on Blog Day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene was the consultant on Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness grant to strengthen the network of a Population/Reproductive Health grantee, The International Institute of Education's Leadership Development for Moblizing Reproductive Health Program. We can't forget about our basic humaness when interacting with other people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Eric Eckl from BeaconFire Consulting has a really nice blog called Water Words That Work ! See below). The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. They are calling on Americans nationwide to gather and hold silent, candlelight vigils to mourn those lost, reminiscent of the vigils after 9/11. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In a deliberate, organic, and aggressively inclusive manner, advised Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and consultant Eugene Eric Kim, at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” conference yesterday. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Or, if they do, the nonprofit will not have a full-time Web Analyst , although might work with a web analyst on a consulting basis. The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation.

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JULY 10, 2008

When I say total cost be sure youre getting not just the prices of the technology, but also any consulting or professional services youll need to include. Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? Ask about their throughput: how many transactions per second can they handle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.” In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Finally, with extensive research and data analysis, plus some help from an SEO consultant, we were able to see how outmoded our assumptions about the way people search for volunteer opportunities had become. But visits continued to stagnate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. Consultant Commons: Blogging and Tagging How-Tos. Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

It made me think of how many times have I heard crusty old nonprofit technology consultants, "Social media, no body knows what that is?" Dion Hinchcliffe presents a great visual illustrating the difference between traditional/mainstream and social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. 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. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. It's called Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?" via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. Extreme Email Makeover. " Another write up about Kiva.

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