Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In this post, I'm going to take a deeper dive into the actual work tasks of a wiki gardener - it is a bit more than simply weeding. I created a 4 minute screencast with Jingproject that will give you a sense of the workflow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation. Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. ") The winners will be announced at the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

" and Maddie Grant gives us the three top reasons why online communities fail. Urban League Facebook page ) We're so delighted that we decided to give away one more book! Jump in over at the wiki. ll have a nice, pretty site that ends up being another community ghost town. to ask before you launch an online community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 6, 2011

Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki. It’s a wiki, but everything is stored in files instead of a database. The annoying part is that it is one more wiki markup to learn (I wish SOMEONE would finally agree to make a wiki markup standard!!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 We will then create a screencast, with audience participation, in the style of a cooking show. (No,

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 19, 2009

The good folks at Aspiration have been working to put my list of donor databases into a wiki. Giving Database from Willow Mountain Consulting. I'll announce the wiki list when it's ready. Along the way the identified some that seem to have disappeared and weren't on my earlier list of defunct donor databases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

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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? ." "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

MissionFish’s cash giving APIs available for the first time in the UK. Visit the event Wiki for links to documentation, attendees bios, and links to the applications created after the weekend. JustGivings new API (available for the first time at this event). PayPals new Beta Adaptive Payments API’s. Sneak Preview of other API’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

If this isn't enough, she'll be giving away three free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading for trainers. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . First, it saves a lot of paper. The Topics.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

" The Next Generation of American Giving – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – Here is a great guest post from Jocelyn Harmon on the Care2 Frogloop blog: "“Our donors are aging-out.&# “We need to attract younger donors.&# “We need to be on Facebook.&#

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. on social networking sites see your giving and fundraising activity through widgets, Apps, and peer-to-peering fundraising tools, like fundraising pages. Text-to-Give technology allows quick, easy donations on your mobile phone inspired by urgent calls to actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! Campaign Wiki (includes links to people who blogged about the campaign ). My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge. Sina's Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. At first, it may seem like trial and error - but after you get familiar with the lay of the land, you know which keywords give you bang for your buck. The above presentation is a remix of a remix of a remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

They are “ learning in public &# on the wiki , paving the way for networked conversations with others. Here’s a best practice about Facebook that surfaced from the discussions. Facebook landing pages give people reasons to like your page. Here’s a wiki on custom landing tabs and more advice here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link]. What resulted was a strategic plan that filled 1,470 pages on a wiki and was then edited down to a bite-size, clear and compelling 20 page booklet. I was anxious for a year,” is what Sue said repeatedly.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

If you’re a photographer, you might be happy to let someone use your photos so long as they give you credit. Why, because you want others to know they can share or post your cool photos so long as they give attribution (or any other stipulated criteria you’ve set via the licensing options). What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

And, also it doesn't give you the best practices and tactial tips. Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences. Automate generation of publications based on data using LaTeX and Sweave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Wikis as a natural solution for unstructured information. Giving and taking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. It has many examples of using blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare and other tools for both face-to-face workshops and e-learning. by Jane Bozarth. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I happen to agree with that, which gives me a different perspective on exercises like this exercise in crowdsourcing. Nitrogen Wiki . Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". Crowdsourcing the Genome . Next Stop Design Process.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

Not only is this a free event, we're going to give away a bunch of goodies to help put you in the party spirit. We've also made a wiki to support and extend the book. Notice how it doesn't look entirely like a wiki? > Add your suggestions to the wiki today. So: > Register for the Virtual Book Release Party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki). John Kenyon (@jakenyon), nonprofit tech guru and frequent collaborator of Beth’s, did a wonderful job interviewing Beth – teasing out the stories, A-ha moments, failures – and giving Beth the space to talk openly about her next chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Twenty people made contributions - although 7 contributions were made by "guests" - people who didn't register for the wiki. I set up the wiki to have the lowest barrier to participation - anyone can edit and they didn't have to register. We didn't have an unlimited supply of books, so we couldn't give everyone a book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Curated by NTEN, the community will worked in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. So, what's my role in all of this? My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Six lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0.). Wiki participants have been very busy bees! Here's some tips and warnings from Wiki participants: 1. Alex Berger. Be wary of clique behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

A couple of observations about themes that resonated: Joyful Funerals: This is a term I first heard from MomsRising about how they give themselves permission to fail and stop doing something that doesn’t work with social media. The second half of the workshop looks at social media strategy and tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project is discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. If you've put on your listening ears, it should give way to joining the conversations that relate to your organization or issue area. Add it here on the wiki or the comments. Have a story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. This exercise is very useful because after participants create their maps, they’re taped on the wall, and participants give feedback using sticky notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Always fervently believing in our capacity to be leaders in our communities, he only asked that we be productive and give back. Interactive community : Engage with others in this work, via a discussion forum , articles , blog and wiki (hosted by the Packard Foundation). Paying it forward: ImpactRising.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program.

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