Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. The content and tools are nothing without the curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

" It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. So, now we've given ourselves permission to get our hands on the tools. Because at some point, you need to learn how to use tools effectively and efficiently. Tools: Monitoring. you work in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

However, if you were doing a 6 month peer learning program, you would definitely want to look at the four levels of outcomes and measurement them. Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

The inspiration for some of the ideas in this module came from Chris Brogan , CCTV's VT Nonprofit Tools Wiki and a question raised by Nancy Schwartz in the first module. Today, please share what you think a social media strategy map looks like? Today, please share what you think a social media strategy map looks like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. .&# It is not uncommon that when a new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { 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. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. There is a difference between market research (using surveys, focus groups, and interviews to collect data) and listening (using social media tools). The first module is on Listening. Why listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network. Learning Together Over Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. engaging in conversation, finding it more useful as a social media tool). What are your best resources about hashtags?

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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

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I have years of blog content and resource collections. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Lina offers a concise definition of Transmedia Storytelling , a concept and term coined by Henry Jenkins. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Under this program, the Foundation invites a mid-career professional, accomplished in their field to be in residence at the Foundation to be a resource to staff and complete a project to benefit the field. . I will continue to do a limited amount of outside work, primarily the NTEN WeAreMedia Wiki project. . What does that mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

I The group will be between 50-125, so it will be more of lecture, although I will definitely use the back-channel and instant poll features. The slides and resources list are on the wiki. tools creatively? I'm glad I put my first draft thoughts out there because I got some helpful clarifying comments.

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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 ? nonprofit technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. All-in-one. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. And if these high caliber players can make progress on challenges like the diversity in the work or attribution for advocacy efforts we can all celebrate and use the tools. An easy example is green technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Guide your students to conversations and resources. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

His approach is definitely a few pegs of up from entry level and if you invest in the tools, software, and services it will run about $500-1,000. His slides will be posted on the Podcamp wiki -- so look for them. If you want to spend money, SONY has tools like soundforge. Content is first! Garageban is king for Mac.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" I would appreciate any suggestions, improvements, pointers to other resources or if your organization has a story to tell about web analytics. The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. To understand the definition web analytics. Possible Working Titles: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Using monitoring tools.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

She leads that Idealware team of researchers, presenters, writers, who create technology information resources, and as I said, we’re going to share a resource with all the participants at the end of this webinar, and I’m sure we’ll allude to it. So this next slide is touching on personal devices and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. I was modeling crowd sourcing and my new definition of an expert: Your expertise is in your network. Have a brief over that lays out the definition and concept models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. What social media tools are they currently using?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2012

It’s definitely one to add to the “ Nonprofits Data Visualization Wiki ” that I’ve put together to curate and present the best resources for instruction based on ongoing curation over at scoop.it. What are your favorite resources for data visualization techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task. It takes practice to do well, but it definitely improves the learning experience for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

What we're talking about are web widgets and the definition is: A Web Widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate html-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. I've aggregated a lot of these and other resources on the topic on my wiki portfolio.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses. Share your tips, tactics, tools, and techniques for effectively curating to serve your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Definitely a must-read, particularly the post by Steve Bridger on the power of storytelling. Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I

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