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.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology. The ability to maintain a certain process or state.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

We were also introduced to this really cool guy, John Kenyon (you might have heard of him), who helped us solve our problem with one word: wiki. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals. Fast forward to Jan.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. This post breaks it down for you and lists examples of different types of hackathons. Want to host your own hackathon? TechSoup's Hacker Helper can get you started.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

Well, that problem is about to go away with the release of CiviReport in 2.3. It’s quite good, and there are some useful docs to see it at work on the CiviCRM wiki. First, the core team shared some of the new stuff coming out in version 2.3, and it is awe-some. Plus charts! There were some pie charts, and regular bar charts.

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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). If anyone was going to help nonprofits learn how to use technology and social media to advance their missions, it should be us. If not more so.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? How do you start to tackle this problem? Wikis/Blogs. Sometimes the problem is the technology -- or rather, inappropriate technology. Mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. Are the three wiki tools listed free? What: The art of social instructional design.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

Problems with the adoption of new IT tools can rob an implementation of much of its ROI. The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. But both of us had limited success in encouraging our own organizations to use our wiki. First we need to put someone in charge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Defining the platforms – be it a wiki forum, open data sets for analysis, or a webinar – that provide the best pathways for learning to take place will make the process that much speedier and easier. Collective and collaborative problem-solving can get us farther faster. The who?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

NetSquared (soft) launched our latest project, the Hacker Helper , a wiki that connects social good hackathons with problems that need to be solved. Thanks to Richenda Vermeulen for planning the presentation and Lucas Kussowski for the video recording. Image: evilpeacock. Event NetSquared tsevent'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The also had room divider screens that could be used as extra wall space to hang student work for a poster session or students could use to work on project. Or you could use them to divide the room. The model is called “SAVI” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. Integrate Practical Use of the Tools for Reflection, Network Weaving, Getting Ideas, Follow Up Work.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

This includes organizational communities, in the sense that your organization has created a space for supporters to connect with you (on your blog, Twitter, forums, wiki, whatever), as well as the network of contacts and content I have chosen to follow, subscribe to, or otherwise connect with.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. Bernhoff and Li point out in their book that there are problems relying solely on social media to do your listening. My Listening Ears, Flickr Photo by niclindh. The first module is on Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

As one participant noted in the discussion, a big problem she observes with social media within nonprofits is that the leadership is "divorced" from the social media and tactics are delegated to the "young person on staff" without strategic insight. I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Some techniques I'm using for workshops that have become standard for me: Wikitation: A wikitation (word coined by Allan Levine, Cogdog Blog) is a wiki that you use to share you presentation slides and links. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? TechSoup's Hacker Helper can get you started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

replace "Be the Media" on the text in the wiki. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. I am hoping that once we change domains, all links the wiki will automatically redirect. As such you need to kill "weird" "internety" words like Wiki."

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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

Other tools for collaborative work to consider include Google Apps, Evernote, Yahoo Groups, web conferencing tools such as ReadyTalk , or even a wiki created especially for your team. Citrix’s GoToMyPC , are two methods to enable remote file sharing. Tools such as Basecamp or Cohuman can facilitate task assignment and management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

Dina has also shared a link to a wiki Nargis Help. Blog, tweet, re-tweet, podast, email, speak about and share/bookmark links to things you read that move you, and encourage others to do the same and think creatively about the problems. The Burma: It Can't Wait Campaign launched not too long ago by the U.S. Do you have a podcast?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

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. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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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

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. They wanted to dispel myths about what mental problems really mean. For example, Daily Kos created a wiki. Requires sustained effort.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

It especially poses problems for campaigners looking to collaborate around the world and create meaningful opportunities to take action (someone in Taiwan may have a compelling story about Climate Change, but they may not respond or be empowered by a US legislative petition, for example). link] is a climate change wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it. We'll have check-in conference calls as well as use the wiki and hashtag to provide just-in-time learning.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. As we build the assumptions of the cloud and mobile apps into our work processes, we will find that we see problems differently and shape solutions in new ways. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

Maybe this is will solve the problem? Also, I set up a DOS wiki and gathered up what I could find in terms of documentation - if you have photos, videos, or other a blog post, please add. . So, it mean that pizzas were being created and baked before knowing who would purchase and eat them.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

We're using it to solve a basic internal communication problem. Project coordination on wikis. We're starting to use it for the early stages of exhibition planning as well. We're not using Pinterest to do something cool on the Web. I used to constantly email links to individual staff members with a message like "we should try this."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. The next step was for participants to draw another circle draw another big circle with pictures representing how the world might change for the positive.

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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

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. As we build the assumptions of the cloud and mobile apps into our work processes, we will find that we see problems differently and shape solutions in new ways. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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