Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Ah, but there's the rub.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Favorite software tools are all about managing processes fluidly. Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Simple brochureware websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. It was created by Greg Cohen to share resources he has identified while exploring tools for the members of the Association of Private Voluntary Organization Financial Managers. Another, more focused on the tools of collaboration, is KnowledgeManagement. There is substantial overlap.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

And most importantly: it will be documented and shared by large numbers of people, experiencing it first hand, and sharing news and updates in real time. There are many free online website and content creation tools available. Thankfully for members of #OWS, there are various tools to livestream events, just from your mobile phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. We're going to use an Interactive Presentation where we will walk folks through what, what, how, tools, and tricks. Top Three Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Documentation. Trainer Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Foundation Center released a report that documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from 73 members of the Center’s Grantmaker Leadership Panel. For example, you can browse Facebook profiles at once. This was so useful, I added it to my Social Media and Foundations wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. SocialText is a commercial, hosted wiki-based platform with some collaborative workspace-type features such as discussions and document management tacked on. Open Atrium. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. SocialText is a commercial, hosted wiki-based platform with some collaborative workspace-type features such as discussions and document management tacked on. Open Atrium. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. First, it saves a lot of paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value. In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

However, the tools continue to get better and better, and we are excited to begin working with Acquia's Drupal Commons , a recent entrant into the enterprise collaboration fray. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. This hasn't changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As Geoff describes in more detail, the Summit conversation will use established and more experimental social media tools and platforms to involve people who are not in the room in the discussion. He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

In the comments of a I post I did on continuous computing where I referenced the continuous computing blog and the possiblities for nonprofits, Wade Roush, a senior editor and West Coast bureau chief for MIT's Technology Review magazine suggested some additional tools. (He One is wikis. Does anyone know of any nonprofits using wikis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet. I'm not complaining.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Useful Collaboration Tools. Collaboration Tools Chart. Online Collaboration Tools. A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Hopefully tomorrow the connection will sustain some real live blogging with CoverItLive (my favorite live blogging tool). we cover best practices in planning for technology projects, providing tools to help you make smart decisions about where to invest those resources. Contact me: Peter Campbell psc @ techcafeteria.com.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

Problems with the adoption of new IT tools can rob an implementation of much of its ROI. And the the solution is not simply making sure you've picked the right tool and delivered the proper training. These steps may involve partial use of the new tool, use by a subset of the eventual target user community, or both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

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. Last week, I took along my N95 and used as a documentation tool - and a way to bring others from outside the class into the discussion.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Some are using tools like Twitter or Facebook to invite listeners to a post-segment conversation with reporters, moving them from a passive action (listening) up the ladder of engagement to an active action of commenting and discussion. Google Analytics for your Wiki. Using Social Media. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

CiviCRM even has some basic HR management tools to help nonprofits keep track of their volunteers, new jobs, and related documents. Managers can create reports using pre-built templates or customize their own to get detailed insight on their organization's data. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Alternatives to Ning Document. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software. Pricing: Free version comes with 1GB of storage and is ad-supported. Hosting: Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Simple brochureware websites.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool.

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MARCH 18, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. With the resources, tools, and services available in today’s market, accessibility no longer has to be a limiting factor. His customers appreciate his expertise delivered with a smile.

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