Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Wikis for Curriculum Development and Instructional Materials

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I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. I've been a participant in design discussions about wiki projects, but never the main architect. Been pausing over the purist definition slide from his slide deck.

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The Giving Wiki, Literally.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Wiki Adoption in Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog. I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption.

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Emergency Social Data Summit: We Can All Participate Remotely

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Red Cross is hosting the Emergency Social Data Summit today Thursday, August 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET). This U-Stream will be archived via The Emergency Social Data blog. This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). You can participate remotely. EDT/10 a.m.

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Got Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media.

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Wiki Cookbook Exercise

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The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. The discussion included some pointers to the tools as well as some clarifying questions. The work of the editors is done on a wiki. So, I went poking around the wiki and I discovered this wonderful exercise she created to get people comfortable.

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Social Media Infused Discussion Triggers and Ice Breakers and Connected Futures Workshop Opening Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used.