Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. I think that slapping up a widget and not having strategy doesn't work.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. What Is a Wiki? Organizing a wiki team is much like organizing a volunteer or work team.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Check out the TweetChat on July 11 for a quick introduction on how it translates to nonprofit and library work. Additional TechSoup Resources. on Wikispaces. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list. Additional Non-TechSoup Resources. NTC 2011 TechSoup virtual teams presentation. on Slideshare.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

It morphs two different blog posts by nonprofit tagging thought leaders, Ruby Sinreich and Alexandra Samuel. UPDATE: I've published a resource on tagging and nonprofits. UPDATE: I've published a resource on tagging and nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. nonprofit plan social Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. There are now a dizzying array of online resources in this area. Of course libraries are all about education in its various forms. But what's good, effective, and also entertaining for kids?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp Wiki and Britt Bravo's post about how it was used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0 In this session, we'll focus on three sectors: nonprofit groups, public access television and community-oriented citizen journalism. It also serves a resource leave behind! A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. Wow, no wonder it???s old ways???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Dave points to a couple of resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ). How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? I was delighted last week to see this skype message pop up from Dave Cormier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. NpTech Community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2011

For those of you just getting started, check out our Nonprofit Social Media 101 curriculum for beginners, which has examples, tips, and videos about getting started with and managing your social media presence. We've also collected other resources to help you navigate the social media sea. Check out our helpful webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Guide your students to conversations and resources. I'm nervous. Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. You have to register for wikispaces in order to add yourself. An Individual Takes Leadership. breadth.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. Nonprofit Examples/Thinking. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit.

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