Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Meetings are a big part of our work week, whether it is a recurring staff, team, or board meeting or informal check-in. – Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Can a wiki be an example of paying it forward? and Nonprofits Best Practices Wiki ! Instead, we're trying to create something that's easily digestible and understandable for most nonprofits and that organizes the information in terms that. and nonprofits with David Wilcox who has a social media and nonprofits wiki here.

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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 material???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. He writes: Nonprofits have approached collaboration or information sharing,particularly using internet tools as a resource, through several disciplines. I have provided links to efforts by nonprofit organizations around the world to share information on these disciplines.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites." " Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Twitter API wiki. Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. Trimet misses the bus on social media. Twitter for fundraising. Twitter (from We Are Media). Twitter’s 5-year numbers. Pew research on Twitter users. Blog Posts. Twitter Lists for Nonprofits.

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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 Where do I find more information? No, I probably won't do my Julia Child imitation.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. I can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers.

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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. Federation from Symphony Information Services. 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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

You can read it for free online (or download the PDF) and it includes case studies, how-to tutorials, and lots of information about various tools that may be appropriate for your organization (after you’ve identified your goals, audience, and so on).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be taking place next month Tunsia. WSIS has just released a special report " Information Society: The Next Steps " that looks at how the ICT landscape is changing in the developing world and what lies ahead. Check out the section on blogs and wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

The Information Diet. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction. Visualization Techniques. Balance in Hyperconnected World. 18 Minutes A Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. All of this information is also available at our Emergency Social Data Summit on the American Red Cross blog. EDT/10 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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. On a lighter note, take a few minutes to view this hillarious video, WikiKitchen , on how to turn your kitchen into a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. The Information Diet. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Takeaways. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. Visualization Techniques.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. A VRM tool would allow a donor to control how much information a nonprofit has about them. I don't have any control over what information Facebook retains about me or about TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

This will be very valuable information to the field. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They put information about their program, things they have learned and resources they like out on the wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Over the past few years, the use of social technologies during disaster response has become a central component to news and information delivery. Build your online homebase with a wiki, a website (like WordPress.com or Google Sites ), or a blog (like Tumblr or Posterous ). Online Homebase. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

information you want to share/present. 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). a project you would like help on. What happens During Sessions? *.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I use Google Forms, one of the tools I'll cover, to collect this information. I've also learned I always get a mixed group. When I'm ready to build materials, I start with me setting up a workshop wiki It becomes a hub for all electronic materials. The advantage of having all this detailed information on a wiki is two-fold.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Tech has radically altered production and transmission of knowlege and information. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. Tweetawatt: will send out information via twitter about energy usage, on Makezine.com.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

With so many people creating content and an overwhelming amount of information available, how do you know what's important or from trusted sources? What type of information are you looking for? Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

And the best part - We'll choose three case studies to be featured at our SXSWi session and, of course, add the information to the WeAreMedia Wiki. We want to know about it. Submit your case study here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Have access to technology information that is individualized and cutting-edge Increase their confidence and competence in using tech tools to support their program work Attending two Nonprofit Technology Conferences exposed to us to the latest and greatest in nonprofit technology thinking. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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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. Check out the great examples/case studies! But it’s lacking in certain parts of the world.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Whether you're thinking about making some small enhancements to your organization's website or planning a complete redesign, you'll find plenty of useful information and tips from TechSoup and our global partners. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. But both of us had limited success in encouraging our own organizations to use our wiki. What would a stairstep model for adoption of the wiki look like? First we need to put someone in charge! So this suggests the next increment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

is our community directly informing the services we provide? Let’s focus on that first question for a moment: is our community directly informing the services we provide? How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. Age, class, race, gender and location play huge roles now in how people want to receive information and calls to action from nonprofits. is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. It’s one-way communication. and Web 3.0.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The announcement and additional information (including that educators could continue using the platform for free ) came in April and the changes took effect in July. is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning. Read the blog post about the transition here. Interview. There were mixed responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Identification of these factors marked the beginning of our journey to discover how to consistently capture and leverage knowledge, information, innovation, and data…of our constituents, our partners and our staff. Explain why it will be important or informative for their work. Define your Call to Action.

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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. Wikis Are Now Serious Business.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

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