Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Experience or interest in: Qualitative text mining & analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The bombings created confusion and as people were able to put details together for themselves, they did so in a way that others could learn and follow the developments. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. The insight that resonated most was a paragraph in the summary about the importance of rapid experimentation and learning is to the future of nonprofits. Have some thoughts?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Tools Strategy Learning Collaboration 40

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. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? November 1-15th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. Prizes will offered too!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Please follow the links to learn more as I’ve tried to pull out as many as I could: There are many organizations using Twitter to promote actions, including: @350 @1sky @tcktcktck @replyforall @avaaz @PowerShift09 @wiserearth @focusthenation @consequence09. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

In module 2 , we look at these learning goals: To understand the elements of a social media strategy map. The inspiration for some of the ideas in this module came from Chris Brogan , CCTV's VT Nonprofit Tools Wiki and a question raised by Nancy Schwartz in the first module. What are the general components of a plan?

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Social Media NTEN Module Media 50

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Organizational Planning: A unified strategic plan ties together the: strategic place, business plans, and budget by using balanced scorecards and business process maps to strictly tie actions and expenses to mission-servicing strategies. Financial, revenue focus. Constituent, starting a newsletter or services. Buy Peter’s book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. VolunteerMatch: Live Map. VolunteerMatch has created an up-to-the-minute live map on its website, offering information about the total number of searches and different categories of referrals indicating when a user has responded to a volunteer opportunity.

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Social Media Websites Integration Design 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Field Trips and Real World Experience.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. This allowed each of us to share what we’d like others to know – what we bring to the project and what we’d like to learn.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. And we will continue to revise our microvolunteering initiative as we learn lessons from our own program, as well the experiences of others. And we'll continue to share what we learn! We're sticking with it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2008

> Learn More and Register Today! It describes in a clear manner how to leverage new media -- blogs, social-networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, mobile phones, wikis, online maps, and virtual worlds -- to reach the youth audience. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

We used a map metaphor , inspired by and adapted a post by Chris Brogan. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki. What I like best about this section is that the focus isn't on numbers only - these are reflective questions related to learning. t know before? ???

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Social Media Develop Media Remix 65

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. These words included things like: open, mutuality, learning, not “techie,&# not about CTX, knowledge sharing and storytelling (and more). What services already exist? This is both locally and globally. What already exists?

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Case Study Studies Charity Community 162

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Then there is a point where they need to at least do a little action learning to know whether or not to push back or push forward. One of the reason's I learned that David was writing about this topic was that I also follow an ego feed. What is the middle ground?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. What I’m most excited about is “networked learning&# – it is part peer learning, part content-delivery, and another part engaging people in the room and not in the room in conversation through the use of social media. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. However, some of us recognize that conversations are a mere stepping stone for co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. Nonprofit Tech Blog points us to the Nonprofit Success Guide wiki.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. As I write this, I keep learning about more and more NTEN Members and NPTech-ers joining Blog Action Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

She includes "learning," despict that face that some feel learning makes us less productive. It made me think of Dave Winer's post about digital preservation and the nptech history wiki. Ali Levine has an amazing post about how to tell your story with maps on the NTEN blog and some pointers to story resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I wanted to share with you some of what I learned today. For example, The Nature Conservancy is part of a group called the US Fire Learning Network group. The features inside of groups include discussion board, file archive, wiki, events, a map, and a number typical features to support online collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. I'm nervous. Openness - ????A It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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