Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2010

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks. This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2010

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively. Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes – Guest Post by Kelcie Tacchi. Create a Staff Engagement Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Movement building is something I’m very passionate about, and I think we can truly make lasting social impact if more organizations, campaigns, and changemakers operated in a movement focused way, instead of investing resources and capacity into one-time efforts. Global Scale Wiki. So, share whatever you like on this list!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. And we still see that need, and still think we can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Paula Goldman shared some thoughts about foundation intent in using social media, particularly amplifying grantees work and thought leadership. In addition, Kathy Reich, mentioned the potential of using social media to help inform and improve grant-making strategy. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Over at the WeAreMedia Wiki, we have a " Expertise Map " where people self-selected to add their names and in a number of cases share their expertise by contributing to the wiki. It includes a lot of consultants, bloggers, and service organizations. I'd like to see the list organized by different segments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. We have always had, and will generally always need, two forms of networks in organizations: the formal and the informal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). What does working wikily mean? We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

." Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

It's talking about the adoption of social media tools in spying organizations, but a lot of points are apply to nonprofit adoption The need to focus on the challenges posed by your organizational culture even more than the technologies to make them work for you. This caught my eye. For the intelligence agencies to benefit from ???social

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. They're going to be at the NTC , so can meet them at the Science Fair !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. Until recently Command & Control made sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

And a lot of hard work to make sure you create something that???s Other questions will help you get your organization on board. Six more lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0. Jump in over at the wiki.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Alex Steed will be there as a stop on his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing tour (which you can donate to, like Beth Kanter did). Who is already working on this issue that you think others should support?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. Screencasting Panel.

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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!) What do you think?

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Do you do much of our work online? Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. Why Working In Distributed Teams Is Green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. .

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

I'm not sure software innovation will do anything about easing ego problems, but it has certainly eased the need to travel between Virginia and Philadelphia to work on a document together. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

WORKing Organizations 10 Dimensions. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about applying the “network mindset&# to one’s works, whether that be philanthropy or nonprofits. Going through her wiki connected me back to the thought leaders in this area, like Patti Anklam. Technologies shape the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.) I added a new section about Twitter as Focus Group based on Nina Simon's work with the Smithsonian. At the beginning of the workshop, I asked participants how they wanted to improve their organization's listening: How do we get started? How do we prioritize what to listen for?

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. We hear from community organizers all the time: How do I break through on Facebook? org, Greenpeace, Peaceful Uprising, and the New Organizing Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset. Facilitating peer-learning and exchange.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Are you working in the nonprofit community? Are you a an online advocacy guru, a fundraiser, or grassroots organizer? This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. Grassroots Organizing. As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. NonProfit 2.0 Who is invited? Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.)

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. These same tools can support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities, and other kinds of organizations." These fall into the category of CRM. Challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Like going to hackathons and wish you could get paid to work on a good cause full time? This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. If hired, ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories : "Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories How two orgs have built and maintained active, vibrant wikis By: Brian Satterfield December 8, 2006 As emerging Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I was having lunch with a friend this week, who runs a small advocacy organization in Canada, that relies heavily on the use of email lists. I think that’s a big question – it matters a lot what the demographics of the organization are, what the goals of the email lists are, and the direction things are going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. That said, many, many websites need neither of these features. Community Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

When Sue Gardner, Wikimedia’s Executive Director set out to draft her organization’s strategic plan, she didn’t do what most ED’s do: select a handpicked and “elite” team and sequester them in a room for a few days to think about the future of the organization and what needed to be done to get there. If we wanted to get real buy-in.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

Last month, Zoetica launched “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Arts Nonprofit ,” a peer learning project to build capacity for arts organizations in using social media effectively with a one-day masterclass. It doesn’t have to be a static content either, it can change according to your organization’s activities.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media – "Throughout the non-profit world, organizations struggle with social media’s impact on the volunteer and donor cycle. There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists. ."

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Business analysis programs to help you report on and analyze your organization's data. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders. Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action.

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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. Getting to Scale: What does it take for everyone in the organization to embrace social media?

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