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

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

You need to fuel it and we have so much to do at work. 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. Conclusion.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. But over the past two years, the program has expanded its work to include a focus on how grantees can improve the strength and use of these networks. . His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. What type of work do you do in the nonprofit sector? I am working on making a living turning other people on to it all.

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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. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. And some background reading.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Possible Working Titles: 1. Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. Analytics This!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The session was also covered on the Working Wikily Blog, ” Doing the conventional, unconventionally ” by Anna Muoio. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Recently, I've been thinking and working with the concept of metaphorical design, that is, designing things by modeling them after other things. She didn't really know what a wiki was, but she liked the idea of it. For example, when I think of the term "wikimuseum," I think of several potential characteristics.

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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.). Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders. Example Wikieducator ). Today I Cried resigns !

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