Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I One is wikis. for examples of what different types of communities are doing with wikis. Does anyone know of any nonprofits using wikis? I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) The first was to look at the different social network analysis maps posted on the walls and figure out what was going on. One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We visualize networks in a different way.

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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. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Are the results different? Will it make a difference?

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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. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. The 9 Essential Posts That Every Blogger Should Know offers nine different genres of blog posts. Expo Ignite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. This is the number of site visits by different users. I could not believe how many different sources you had combed through.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

She didn't really know what a wiki was, but she liked the idea of it. The characteristics I imagine are based on my definition of a wiki as a website that anyone can edit. In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." But that is not everyone's definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. Today I Cried resigns ! of Internet visits. Example Wikieducator ).

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