Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. The key is the interconnectivity of users - and what can happen when you get connected with people with similar goals. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. It was very moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

If you didn't write down the wiki, it's here and if you didn't get a hard copy of the Idealware article, it's here. If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. no more than 3.5 There's some execellent content there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

social tools + people = lives saved. . We set up the home bases, provide mission-related information, and enjoy all the people who come in to play. Crisis data = people . In fact, a survey we conducted indicates many people expect help to arrive within one hour of posting a request on an emergency organization's Facebook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. The team at BlitzLocal in Boulder, Colo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

The first is Saturday, August 18th at UC Berkeley , and the second is on Saturday, September 15th at the Brookyn Academy of Music. You can read session notes taken by last year's participants on the Silicon Valley Commons wiki. Their fees are totally reasonable. $50 50 for the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

That only works with small groups on the phone, fewer than 12 or 15 people, not 100. video and having people type themes into the chat worked. I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Although MS reputedly put their best people on it. I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. A lot of the goodness is inherent in the idea of a spreadsheet, right back to VisiCalc. I know it is awfully Web 1.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I think those are better ideas than community blogs – and it’s so easy for people to get involved. Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. I think it would be very great to have a few nptech-focused “planets&# out there. Second, is bookmarking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. at 11:17 am I’m interested to know which combinations of CMS/CRM are working best for people. at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums. Frankly, most people are just excited to imagine their vision coming to life. In this case, we discussed potential real world implementations on the project wiki for Wikisonic. It's lovely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I listened to music to get into a meditative state. In a google document , some how they put the word out and 66 people signed up to blog and tweet about the birthday wish propelling its success! The array of creative ways that people wished me a happy birthday was very inspiring to me. Design for People To Self Organize.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

I seem to spend inordinate amounts of time responding to people (proprietary software vendors, to be specific) harping on the idea that “open source software is free&# is a myth , and blathering on about how it’s not really free, because you have to hire a geek to install it, and maintain it, and blah blah blah. 3 AJ 07.16.08

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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

MARCH 20, 2007

The Widget just helps people track their commitment and shows progress being made. I've aggregated a lot of these and other resources on the topic on my wiki portfolio. Credits Opening Sequence Music. Widgets, charity badges, blog fundraising plugins allows your supporters become messengers for your cause. The particular Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. In the end, I don’t advocate that organizations build new public social networks in the vast majority of situations – I think they should find the people where they already are. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.).

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] One thing that helps people rise out of poverty is a reliable way of storing and exchanging the value built up through effort and knowledge. I agree regarding music. You’ll recall this interview , and this post , and this one. Nudge me again soon.

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