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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???

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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. If it helps get through one planning exercise a month, it pays for itself. I have also used MindMeister – seems like it would help with really complex and multi-leveled diagrams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns. NTC is just days away!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. My first crowd sourced piece was getting people to help me proof read my pages -. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why. This can help you get out a blogging rut. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. You've got to love their logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. The Return on Investment financial process was created by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to help make General Motors manageable in the 1920s. Feedburner. Google Analytics.

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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!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And it’s been a pleasure to get to know you a little bit, Francis, in planning for this webinar, and what an extensive body of work in helping people plan for and use technology effectively inside organizations. Next slide, please.) And Karen’s role is Director of Education and Outreach at Tech Impact.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# 2) Get a wiki.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina. That's actually really easy to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

echoDonations.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping charities start or grow their online fundraising programs by offering financial incentives for donors to give more. The causes range from helping Joe pay for his MCSE to helping Leslie cover her emergency eye surgery hospital bill. Can't afford to visit Bali?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? Have you signed the petition yet? Check it out.

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