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.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. What capacity/resources are in place? This means everything from physical resources to knowledge and staff to the entire network. What roles or resources are needed? What services already exist? Next steps.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Peter Campbell’s How to Decide session: Nonprofits have limited resources, which usually means that we have to make tough choices about where to spend our time and money. we cover best practices in planning for technology projects, providing tools to help you make smart decisions about where to invest those resources.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

We've had some fantastic conversations and brainstorming on the wiki about the strategic issues, including how to know if social media is a good fit for your organization , strategy mapping , meeting resistance , storytelling , engagement skills , and ROI. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia. that will take place in December.

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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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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. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector. Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. The graphic below illustrates the intensity of resources required for each category. Here are a few social websites that offer different levels of resource integration. VolunteerMatch: Live Map. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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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

JULY 1, 2008

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. Dave points to a couple of resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ). After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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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. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ben's book is a great resource for anyone interested in reaching the youth audience. 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. . have more features than the 1.x

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. • Mapping • Cloud computing. The NT100 will form the basis for a growing online resource for social enterprises called “The Social Tech Guide."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I have a confession. The Blog Usability Checklist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools. See the editable map here See the description from Robin Good See a larger version of this image Storytelling Resources Social Media Classroom Storytelling Resources WeAreMedia Wiki: - Storytelling - Share Your Story Cogdog Blog: 50 Ways To Tell A Story.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0 20" or "Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, we explored questions about how nonprofits go about planning their social media efforts and various resources are summarized here. 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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact? . It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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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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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

A We Need/We Have exchange to help get available resources to the people that need them. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! and asking for ideas.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2007

The site incorporates Google Maps, wikis, and discussion groups, as well as listings of events, resources and jobs. Users can create and maintain profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. 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. What's next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Content Curation on Twitter.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Google Aps.

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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. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Internally, we use a wiki to manage many projects and communicate across the organisation.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. The new map galvanized the community because they were able to really understand the impact of the plan.

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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

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Are you spending organizational resources writing outreach materials to your program participants. to content on a blog and other web resources so you don??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. Resources: Jeremiah Owyang, 50 Ways to Use Social Media Listed by Objective. Perception of wasted of time and resources.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. On the Office on the Web front - here's the first creditable database offering I've seen so far: Lazybase lets you create tables, link them, share them, and view them in a variety of ways, including on maps and graphs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

It allows groups of individuals or organizations or a mix to set up a space online to engage in discussion, share resources, or collaborative on projects. 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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