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New Study: Social Media Use By Foundation Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Foundation Center released a report that documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from 73 members of the Center’s Grantmaker Leadership Panel. For example, you can browse Facebook profiles at once. This was so useful, I added it to my Social Media and Foundations wiki.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. We're going to use an Interactive Presentation where we will walk folks through what, what, how, tools, and tricks. Top Three Takeaways.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Big visions often mean higher likelihood of disappointment.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. What you'll find on the wiki is an online community toolbox for online communities of practice work. Technology for Communities project.

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Getting More out of Online & Offline Events

Forum One

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. We've got a number of presentations from various events.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. I'm so glad that Ivan is adding his presentation and wisdom to the WeAreMedia wiki! He has since started doing freelance work on his own at rootwork.org. Thanks Ivan.