Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Wikis have been used for knowledge sharing , learning , conference coordination , and repositories - and curriculum as community. Last week as part of ongoing reflection on working wikily, I titled as post " Establishing A Giving Culture on A Wiki " inspired by Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

When we kicked off the WeAreMedia, A Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits 18 months, we included two areas about content creation. We also touched on user-generated content, inspiring others to tell your organization's story in their own words. Are we moving towards a "Social Content Strategy." Content management strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I am excited to say that we have created a bit more content, a new discussion group, and are planning a roundtable discussion for December! This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. Global Scale Wiki. Visit the wiki today and share your ideas and examples!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. s the wiki weird and the wiki wonderful."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

There were questions about social media policies as well as content and engagement strategies and handling mistakes. Projects that didn’t quite work out perfectly. Later, they turn out to be a rich source of learning. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. eCommerce sites.

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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

JULY 26, 2012

This session will teach you some techniques that you can immediately put into practice and help you work more efficiently and effectively, enabling you to achieve more in less time and ultimately increase the return of your efforts. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources.

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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). More information is here. Prizes will offered too!)

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Do you do much of our work online? Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. Why Working In Distributed Teams Is Green.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We're very pleased to share the results of our TechSoup content survey. Certain delivery methods may work better for some topics : for example, respondents were interested in case studies of other organizations as a way of learning about fundraising and disaster planning. Community Wiki. Over 2,000 people responded.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki. See more at: Jump-Starting the GDC Content Ecosystem. An ecosystem to enable the sharing of information and ideas on the internet among international development stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. He has a context for what may work and what may not.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

I'm not sure software innovation will do anything about easing ego problems, but it has certainly eased the need to travel between Virginia and Philadelphia to work on a document together. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. My Curated Lists and Wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. It gets your work out there. That photo is one of my most viewed flickr photos and resulted in a number of inquiries for work.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Ever attend a conference, for a keynote, and find the rest of the content to be wanting? Are you working in the nonprofit community? This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. Unconference here. About Nonprofit 2.0. NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Some of the questions raised in the webinar chat focused on the role of public media organizations as content creators and how community-driven engagement fits in the work they do. How does the community see their impact and influence on your station?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

Because I want people to know that I expect them to share things they find interesting, or to help further the conversation but that in sharing, others need to keep the content free, too. Because Creative Commons licenses help creators, sharers, and readers enjoy online content respectfully. Why Use Creative Commons in Facebook ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. Events continue through Nov. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset. The game wiki is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. You also need social content. What is a social content strategy?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There are easily a dozen articles in this first issue about our new website, international work and many more. We've now made it easy to report quality issues with Bookshare books, and we have a new wiki-style webpage where all of the reports are posted and updated as the issues are resolved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. The next step in design is the actual content and instructional delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This presents a wonderful opportunity because every time a donor interacts with your organization it is a chance to share another aspect of your story and reiterate the work they make possible. There's the other side of letting your supporters tell their story in their words via social media and then re-purposing it through other channels.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. 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. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Phew – after a long conversation and work session like this, it was exiting to talk next steps! For example, there are others creating or sharing content specifically about tech, like ComputerWorld, UKRiders and CharityWebForum. rich content that’s unique. Next steps. So how did it really go? peer to peer.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The best part of the project has been an opportunity to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media and instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. What is the best way to work with interns? What can we effectively with limited time?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. I use both. Use Learning Theory.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

We'll be tweeting with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. If you're as excited as we are, join us for the #Office4Good tweet chat on Wednesday, January 30 at noon Pacific time.

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