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. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I used to help me with some preparation for tomorrow's presentation on tagging. You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. Update: Some more reflection on it. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that?

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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). Prizes will offered too!) How to identify and do more case studies?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. 4. After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year.

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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. They also tag and analyze responses. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

There is, of course, another school of thought, reflected with mantras like, "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. " There is a deep desire to instill deliberation in the face of big efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. These were transcribed and added to the wiki — and now have participants working on incorporating Twitter into the mix. and storify.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

There is, of course, another school of thought, reflected with mantras like, "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. " There is a deep desire to instill deliberation in the face of big efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Some reflections about the newest web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. The maps are made by community members. Tags: sxsw training materials.

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MAY 2, 2007

was launched on November 2, 2006, after a rousing experience at ASTC when the words "wiki" and "2.0" Click through the tag cloud and find a post you might have missed. Well, folks, we've reached that point. were tossed around more often than free pens and chocolate. But today we're talking what's already happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. It blew me away.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Our desire to "protect kids"--which reflects twenty years of clamping down (at least in the U.S.) The audio starts noisy.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] On the Flickr point, I’ve just been playing with Flickr for Mindapples too, and I’ve started tagging images ‘mindapples’ that make me feel happy and mentally healthy. You’ll recall this interview , and this post , and this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Nonetheless, in reflection, I wonder: Is it time to stop using the phrase "social media for social good" when we're talking about the use of social media for charity? There are numerous examples in NTEN's WeAreMedia Wiki focused marketing and fundraising objectives. Those who participated reflected on their key takeaways.

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