Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The only problem was, we were just as lost as the nonprofits we wanted to help. She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki). It was a time for us in the nonprofit sector to reflect on what Beth means to us—to appreciate what we’ve learned with her as our teacher, mentor and friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The time, money and effort also sounds overwhelming. When time and money are at a super-premium, all that extra commitment and dedication better be worth it. Learning for learning’s sake has high rewards every time. Collective and collaborative problem-solving can get us farther faster. And finally, the so what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. The problem is how to accomplish that without it being too confusing. These sections are: . Tactical Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition to the tactical and skills instruction we did with the social media staff on Day 3 and Day 4, we also covered how to manage time and work efficiently – and how to best provide support for the strategies. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Therefore, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). I most often have to hack the space. Or you could use them to divide the room.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

We're usually expecting to hear things like "Our staff will spend significantly less time putting together monthly reports" or "We will finally have agreement between the membership lists on the website and in the AMS." Problems with the adoption of new IT tools can rob an implementation of much of its ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

It’s the time of year when people start placing their bets on where we’re going next. Mashups in this sense aren’t going anywhere, especially as platforms are built to help create them with less technical knowledge and in less time. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . 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. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. It is important to shift between the tools and that strategic overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2011

By reducing time spent on commuting, members of your virtual team can devote more time to getting work done – a benefit for both the employees and employer. Although time-zone differences and other commitments can make scheduling time for longer chats via phone or video conferencing difficult, it must be done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Setup of all three has a one time fee. They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. The problem with Google Code is that it’s *explicitly* for small projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. a little at a time.???

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

A group of nonprofit techies share their time and expertise with nonprofits from the local community. I've had the pleasure of being involved, along with long time colleague Cheryl Hanback , since almost the beginning. . Maybe this is will solve the problem? One thing does seem to stay constant.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

The main features cover task management, bug tracking, timeline visualizations, digital backlogs, task boards, burndown charts , project wikis, expense management, and time tracking, as well as document sharing and other collaboration tools. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We asked how often respondents use each resource, with options ranging from daily to a few times a year. Most respondents said they used TechSoup resources a few times a year, with blog and forum users making more frequent visits. As one respondent said, "The problem, always, is time. Community Wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

With tools that let us connect in real-time to anywhere else in the world, it can be hard for us to streamline, focus, or even tell our stories in ways that makes sense to the audience. link] is a climate change wiki. The final focus area is on the local vs global impact of social media. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link].

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The problem is that many nonprofits approach social media with over blown expectations, don’t realize them, and then throw their hands up and quit. We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. They discovered that Tweets are more informal, less time consuming than email so journalists may be more likely to read.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

With minimal Apex or managed packages, I can change anything I need to at any time. I spend a lot of time in Excel working around the reporting I can’t do in Salesforce. Solves a lot of the problems that are inherent to nonprofits on Salesforce in an elegant way. Time will tell if these issues will get worked out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. Who should I spend my time responding to and cultivating? One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Apparently this team chemistry is important to winning. Where are the clusters?

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

From time to time, we work with consultants or outside vendors. . We need to be able to see how our projects are progressing over time. Here's what I want: Uncluttered interface - folks have to spend less time managing projects than doing them. Each of us works on different projects for different programs.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. The New York Times has a cool visualization of how people around the world spend their money. The We Are Media Wiki. Zombie Harmony : For all your zombie dating needs. Wait, there's an election going on? Yes, we helped make it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

#machine for machine problems; ex., ???#machine EP+your state if you have a serious problem and need help from the Election Protection coalition; ex., Is failure to bring ID to the polls thwarting first-time voters in Indianapolis? machine broken, using prov. reg for registration troubles; ex., ???#reg reg I wasn???t

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. Lots of people were there (I ran out of handouts – I was surprised to see how many people showed up.)

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Given our multiple team members, we use a wiki as an easy-to-use online collaborative space, where we keep a calendar of upcoming blog topics and draft blog posts. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. Be timely and relevant to your supporters. DC Central Kitchen.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

The first point seems obvious - but its a big problem. Writing takes time. Here is a perfect application for a wiki. A wiki is a website that allows a community of users to easily add and edit content and is especially suited for collaborative writing. There are a number of wiki tools around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

From time to time, we work with consultants or outside vendors. . We need to be able to see how our projects are progressing over time. Here's what I want: Uncluttered interface - folks have to spend less time managing projects than doing them. Each of us works on different projects for different programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

Ihad set up a wiki with the idea of collecting the remixes and incorporating some templates or make it easier for folks to remix. The problem is that it isn't easy for people to remix. Alas we did not have workshop time here in Bogota to run the game at the eLearning conference. UPDATE: Time crunch. Any suggestions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

I took some live notes over on the wiki , but Lorelle has a wonderful post summarizing the learnings from the game that can be taken into your practice.  s about the relationships not necessarily the numbers, and throwing money at a problem will not fix it. s time to rethink and remix everything you knew about marketing.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

During the camps, groups and leaders quickly self-identified and immersed themselves in solving humanitarian relief problems like coordinating relief workers and negotiating language barriers. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake. We outlined an approach on the wiki ? shovel-ready?

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