Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

Here's a few tools I'm using: Email: I'm using the comfort blanket that is outlook. Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. I listen to music on my IPOD while I blog. Recently, I'm addicted to Sarasate and virtusouso violin music. I've wanted to change to gmail, but need a slow period.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips !

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . social tools + people = lives saved. . Now they have the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

And please note: We’re here not only to show how social tools can be used to advance the social good – but to learn from you as well. We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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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. Free-Range Drama Farm recommends the Foundation's Nonprofit Resources page, which has links to resources like Idealists' Tools for Organizations and iReuse for Nonprofits. 50 for the day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Dividing Cells: in excel, you can select a column and say “split this in to many columns using the comma as a delimiter&# — I think it is under tools somewhere (I don’t have Excel so I don’t remember offhand.) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. There questions about Internet safety issues, particularly how to incorporate the use of these tools with 4H tools. Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

So, once I decided that, I realized I needed to find the right tools. ReadyTalk – this had been the tool I thought I’d use. You are not only able to re-play them but also embed the meeting on your blogs, wikis or other social media sites. I thought it would be a good endeavor to start with. It’s $.24

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. I resisted using the title of “report card”. Previously, On NMC….

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

You have to pay to use their corporate wiki software “Confluence&# , but they bundle the source code with the licence so you can customise (and improve) the software yourself. .&# The “free&# aspect of open source is definitely a draw to the neophyte; that doesn’t mean that proprietary is the only way to go afterwards.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

The last post talked about the importance of selected the right tools for your web publishing project. I'd love to see someone write a comparison of these blogging tools.) For special purpose collaborations, a wiki might be most appropriate. For special purpose collaborations, a wiki might be most appropriate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

I've aggregated a lot of these and other resources on the topic on my wiki portfolio. Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. Credits Opening Sequence Music. Act 4: Where to find widgets. The particular Web2.0 nervoso con las guitarras by: norelpref.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What do these tools allow you to do? Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. It combines all the academic features of a CMS and the learning tools found in an LMS with the networking tools of a secure social network and other Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, etc.).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. ” It has a Photoshop type interface with all the different tools, basic menus, plus things like layers. I also like the very easy collages you can make with this free tool.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] I agree regarding music. I too love flickr and TED, and now I’m going to listen to that music you mentioned… Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink Kresta KC Venning wrote: i love this. Nudge me again soon.

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