Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Danny Horn from the Muppet Wiki left a very valuable comment on my wiki post. He shares some tips about building wiki communities. Hi Beth: I'm one of the founders of Muppet Wiki, and I think I can answer. some of those questions about how wiki communities magically happen. People who host wikis should never.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. And we still see that need, and still think we can help.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Opening up the way we work, collaborating with others to further our reach, and inviting the community to take responsibility for success (by extending opportunities to contribute) all help us build movements and scale up our work. This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. With shorter sessions with half as many people and a decent room layout, you can run the mic yourself. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections. the sense of ???competition???

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2011

Looking to help the victims of the Japan earthquake and Tusanmi, but don’t know where to start? Frogloop compiled a list of resources of nonprofits, companies, and do-gooders who are using their tech-savvy and organizing skills to raise money and help locate missing people. By Roberto Maxwell. Crisis Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

These companies want 10,000 people in the first week. And the people come. Many will help you shift your perspective towards supporting your users needs, what good marketers do already. Other questions will help you get your organization on board. You'll get some people who know.). Jump in over at the wiki.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

We all know how challenging collaborative writing is: Jefferson carried around a copy of his original draft of the Declaration of Independence until his dying day, so people could see how it read before Franklin and his committee ruined it by putting it in the form we know today. a month to create and maintain your own wiki site!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ). The topics covered included: ???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Basecamp seems to be a standard that many people have reached for. You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. It doesn’t have milestones per se, but it does allow you to see tasks in calendar and Gantt views, which is very helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Basecamp seems to be a standard that many people have reached for. You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. It doesn’t have milestones per se, but it does allow you to see tasks in calendar and Gantt views, which is very helpful.

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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. The “leaderless” organizing of the Occupy Wall Street movement has helped avoid strategic arrests or censorship but has also prompted a powerful use of social technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

"Do young people have email accounts? The concept is simple as Nick Booth writes: "Some people really get it and move quickly to innovate in the way they collaborate online. What I really like that they are providing extensive help, including screencasts and live chat. Do they login to them semi-regularly?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. a project you would like help on. 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). This event is for you!

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Welcoming the Wiki: "A more interesting question is the impact Wikipedia might have on other technology companies. Will the example of Wikipedia help our tech employees to become more friendly?

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Creating documentation for the event to share with those organizing and helping out on the day was the last push I needed to finally write up the process and approach for others to use, remix, and share. Check out the Project Spaces wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

And we are committed to trying many different approaches to help our grantees, and our own staff, understand social media and what it could do for all of us.&#. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Megan Price New York City has many attractions – people often visit Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, among many other sights. First, provide data visualizations to help average New Yorkers contextualize their own personal experiences. Not all such stops actually result in a search or arrest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. The advantage of having all this detailed information on a wiki is two-fold. The Topics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

She asked me to ask you to help. The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. You can also help by spreading the word.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

What problem can we help solve? Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. It has some terrific questions to think about including: What behavior are we wanting to change? Where do we want to go? What’s our long-term plan?

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills. People and jobs come and go, job requirements change, and people’s abilities also change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. Last week, I sent a tweet asking folks to add their best examples into the wiki which helped me create the presentation. What are the best strategies for engaging people on Twitter/Facebook?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Many of you have offered encouragement and great ideas through the writing process on the development wiki for the book and in the blog posts that are excerpted from the draft. Now I'm reaching out again to all of you to ask for your explicit help. If you are interested in helping in any way, please fill out this form.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. People multiplied by platform divided by an indivudal’s ability to express themselves minus misses or clash of style that degrade the community equlas trust.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

These articles and products can help you build your website from the ground up as well as inspire enhancements or new features on an existing site. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. Website Building, Planning, and Management. Mobile Optimization.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed. Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact.

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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. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. This is a lively community, mostly because of the expertise of people like Maddie, Lindy, and Tony who are skillful community managers. The book has a cool worksheet to help you plan these out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Help us build the toolbox! By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your. Check the top of the WeAreMedia wiki for places where we need some specific help. So come join us. it will be easy and quick.

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