Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems. And the wiki is nice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 Screencasting Panel.

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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. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Back in the mid-1990′s – after 15 years of working the nonprofit sector, I got obsessed by technology and started working as the network weaver for an online network of artists called ArtsWire. I got hear the legends in the nptech sector in the early days talk about their work and was inspired.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. It works for multiple projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. He has a context for what may work and what may not.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Are you working in the nonprofit community? This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. As sessions happen people volunteer to document the outcomes on a wiki (The notes of what was said is even better). NonProfit 2.0

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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. in philanthropic work, and highlights the social media activity of two “power users&# in the field.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Like going to hackathons and wish you could get paid to work on a good cause full time? Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. If hired, ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. This was a incredible opportunity to focus on the documentation side – without feeling rushed to get everything online. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel.

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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. Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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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.

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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. I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. When I'm ready to build materials, I start with me setting up a workshop wiki It becomes a hub for all electronic materials. My job was the network weaver.

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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 didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Some of the questions raised in the webinar chat focused on the role of public media organizations as content creators and how community-driven engagement fits in the work they do. Google Analytics for your Wiki. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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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. They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

The screen capture is a visual conversation trigger to answer the question, "How does your working environment affect your work?" " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. It starts today! " "How does it differ from others?"

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Kristy Graves is a member of TechSoup's Online Community and Social Media team working across the organization to oversee social media conversations and support ongoing collaboration for the community team's online live events and various social media channels. Collaborate with Wikis. Tips for Collaborating in Small Chunks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. I also share some meta reflections or wisdom about what works or doesn't work in using social media for nonprofits. . What works or doesn't work in getting retweeted more often?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). Again, expect a full report from Zoetica about how this worked as a tool as a back channel and documentation tool for the conference.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. CiviCRM even has some basic HR management tools to help nonprofits keep track of their volunteers, new jobs, and related documents. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Blueworks really works to capture organizational and business processes, and modify them interactively in a planning session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

The learning goals are: To introduce the concept of video blogging as a way to document or share stories of a nonprofit's programs or work. To help people make connections to other people who are interested in doing this work to give/receive peer support. Not only on his blog, Network Learning , but embedded into a wiki.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool. Complete documentation can be found on the Day of Service wiki.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Conversations will naturally spring up in the comments section of your document. Use them when you want to introduce a broader audience to your group’s good work. How have you made Facebook Groups work for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Like many nonprofits, the rapidly evolving environment around and within us was littered by a practice of ad hoc documentation and person to person knowledge sharing. Explain why it will be important or informative for their work. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice. Conduct an Organizational Audit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki. Percentage of a document quoted in other documents. Raw links to the document. Significance of author's other work. Via RSA Networks blog.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. on our own servers or desktops.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

David has written up an incredible rundown of the game, including the cards, the planning documents and more. If you were there , I would love to hear your thoughts as well; and if you weren’t , well, read David’s post about how it all works and join the conversation! We need to pick what’s doable and focus on that.

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