Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I need to really cull down what I'm teaching to essence and provide good step-by-step docs as leave behinds. I use a lot of visual humor and it is probably to Americentric. Also, the workshops at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit are brief - half-hour demos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2008

I don't use my email as a to do list, but I do have a lot of reference information in there, particularly what I haven't processed into a google doc (which was also giving me some issues). Here's the link that Sonny Cloward pointed me to on Twitter about the outage (unfortunately, didn't see it because Twitter was having its own problems).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This video of Doc Searls talks about two of the competing metaphors that exist on the Internet - the static Web vs. the dynamic Web. This video of David Weinberger makes the case for NPR to trust the public when it comes to uploading user-generating content and discerning the differences between NPR content and user content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. In a networked nonprofit, VCs could partner new volunteers with experienced volunteers to save time in orientation. Supervised or supported service. Recruitment is just the start. Guiding volunteers to success is equally critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2009

Ability to access my google docs, calendar, and gmail - not only read, but edit. It strikes me that I didn't ask the right question. I should be asking - What SmartPhone will best support my mobile work flow and communications needs? Browse web. Ability to read/respond on social sites - FB, FF, Twitter, etc. Decent Phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Kalabird we used google docs wiki-like platform to build our new website's copy decks and implementation plan. Ericskiff Start by getting line level people to use it one by one. They'll see the utility and it will spread. Slow, but it works! start using it and invite others to join.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2005

This makes me very grateful to so many people who have so tirelessly evangelized and built great tools - and to the bloggers who used the tools to express their thoughts: Dave Winer, Ben and Mena Trott, Ev Williams, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Greg Reineker, Robert Scoble, Liz Lawley, Shelley Powers, Chris Locke, Steve Gillmor, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Doc Searls has some commentary about the Facebook/google search policy, " Why Facebook Should Be Called Buttbook " According to Boyd, nonprofits aren't the only ones being burned by Facebook, some independent artists have been too. hat tip to Nathan who only tweets about his blog posts which are worth reading).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Is your email, google docs or hard drive filled with "virtual piles" of information or ???drafts??? Do you get anxious if you are away from the Internet for too long? Do you open up multiple tabs in your browser and then forget what you were going to do? that haven't been processed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Why is that I could easily make the switch from PowerPoint to SlideShare -- from Word to Google Docs from Excel to Google Spreadsheets? In one of my workshops recently, I talked about online web applications -- the value and benefits as well as the drawbacks. But why can't shift from Outlook to gmail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. Unfortunately, there's a 10 MB limit if you're uploading a PowerPoint file and you can reach that pretty quickly if you are presenting with visuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Everyone knows the nuisance of emailing around a doc and then having to collate everyone's edits. I'd focus on tools that are meeting a need, "resolving a pain point." " I think collaborative tools like Wikis or Writely are worth exploring. Wikis or Writely can certainly be more efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. By the time we all arrived at the event, Heidi had created a separate collaborative note-taking doc for each session, and one that served as a table of contents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For example, working as a team on a large report using a tool such as Google Docs allows each person to work on it at different times. Working synchronously or when two or more people exchange information in real-time can allow for more rapid exchange of ideas, lessen misunderstandings, and help with building relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

It searches Twitter and Facebook for phrases or hashtags and dumps them into a google doc spreadsheet. Here’s a couple of new tools I’ve been exploring: RowFeeder should be in your spreadsheet aerobics routine. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. Via Twitter, Steve Ames, of RiverArts described more a " cloud computing " model of how they work (a topic that Marnie Webb addressed at the TechSoup Global Summit a few weeks ago). First, we use a customized build of Salesforce, which the Salesforce Foundation has donated to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." MoveOn.org launched a "Respect My Privacy Petition Campaign" last week. It was covered by C|NET news. The most recent campaign news from MoveOn - here.

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