Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. What is social media? -

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APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." You could argue that the person who is collecting and synthesizing has acquired some information. Guide To The Use Of Wikis At Events, (briefing 104)

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. But it’s lacking in certain parts of the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools. We even gave away WeAreMedia t-shirts to contributors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. Here’s a few that I found most informative: Best Practices for Big Data: Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

We have always had, and will generally always need, two forms of networks in organizations: the formal and the informal. We have always had, and will generally always need, two forms of networks in organizations: the formal and the informal. Social media in its many forms – blogs, Twitter, social networking sites, wikis, etc. –

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JULY 15, 2009

The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. One of my long-standing contentions is that an enormous amount of organizational knowledge exists in emails between stakeholders. But both of us had limited success in encouraging our own organizations to use our wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other. is our community directly informing the services we provide? Google Analytics for your Wiki. Defining Community.

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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. I worry, however, about potentially adding confusing information while beth et al.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

The NTEN We Are Media Wiki is a like a busy bee cafe. The project has " swarm lists " where anyone who wants to participate by dropping in a resource, bits of knowledge, or edit typos - can drop into a particular module and help out. More information at the wiki. and the busy bee cafe provided a nice metaphor.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

wondering if i might poke my nose into this knowledge building experiment. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. are not) and how knowledge transfers from one to another in 'first wave' (technologically savvy) proto-communities. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

An understanding of the right metrics to use and how/when to incorporate qualitative information 3. Specifically, the them of informed failure. I wanted to get away from the expert at the front of the stage and have an informed discussion between panelists, audience, and myself. . The "Oprah" style worked really well.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

One thing we're really proud of here at NTEN is the knowledge of the community and the generosity within the community to share that knowledge with each other so that we can all do our work better, which in turn, we believe, makes the world better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

The toolkit has 3 components: The toolkit itself, a prepared pack of information. The etoolkit wiki is here. " Meanwhile, Nancy White has created the Knowledge Sharing Toolkit. My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Mashups in this sense aren’t going anywhere, especially as platforms are built to help create them with less technical knowledge and in less time. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. We are going to see tools developed that provide a space to interact with your contacts and content in new ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. How to sell executive director on a smaller, more informal pilot? JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Also, it allows for a more interactive discussion because participants can share their knowledge. One part included having people stand if they had a formal or informal communications plan/strategy (half the room) -and then had them sit down in waves to determine formal communications, Internet strategy, and social strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It allows us to get on the same page – literally – with the same set of data from which to base our assumptions, and to fill in our gaps in knowledge to make more informed decisions. It allows us to see and share our success and failures for ourselves and others to learn from and advance to the next level. The who?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. Don't jump into the deep end of the social media pool, but you won't get any benefit nor gain any knowledge by staying dry and arguing over where and how to leap. The first module is on Listening.

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JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

I was incredibly lucky to have a fantastic group of participants , all passionate about their work, very knowledgeable, and excited about integrating social media into their programs or communications plans. We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. Participants go off and work on their experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

It wasn't in my wiki and so I just added. The rapidly growing phenomenon of blogging, social networks and other forms of online electronic publishing are emerging as unprecedented opportunities for outreach, information-sharing and advocacy. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). On November 24th, I got up at 5:00 AM to skype into the NCVO Information Conference , focused on how organizations can make best use of recent developments in social media to meet the changing needs and expectations of their audiences. NCVO View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

When consider crowdsourcing in the above context as a method for obtaining pertinent information and perspective from relatively large numbers of people, it is useful to differentiate between it and collective intelligence, a related concept. From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software.

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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. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki. This helped us bring in people with knowledge who are not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

s the ability to more efficiently generate, self-publish, and find information, plus share expertise in a way that???s s so much easier and cheaper than earlier knowledge management attempts." My colleague, Michael Stein (East Coast) has written about how wikis can be used by nonprofits for documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It is informal knowledge transfer around using the tools. The fact is that we don't know very much, but collectively we know a lot because people have different knowledge. Put it out on a wiki and asked for stories. Del.icio.us - a peer way to collect information. So, this is the network effect of that model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Information flows. So, it is important to define what you need to know, what actions you'll take once you have the information before you rush out generate diagrams of your network. My definition is that your knowledge lives in the clouds. At that moment, I realized the limitation of knowledge in the clouds.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. Development.

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