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 buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Kristy Graves is a member of TechSoup's Online Community and Social Media team working across the organization to oversee social media conversations and support ongoing collaboration for the community team's online live events and various social media channels. Wikispaces. Wikispaces. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, and edit content quickly and easily. For an example of a wiki, see TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media Page for Beginners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" 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. How much time do I have to spend on social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I blogged about the content last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

" The description is: Public broadcasting isn't the only industry that's exploring the role of social media in their work. A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. I'm not the only one who is making the shift from solitary powerpoint to the more social wikitations. I opted for the wiki-presentation method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? I responded with don't just poke - be a critical friend!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet. One colleague told me that they were allergic to wikis! I'm not complaining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Social Networking. The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Mobile Phones. Virtual Worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

wiki that Michele Martin created. You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. My next step is to contribute it to the Np Best Practices Web2.0 Maybe we can add a section for presentations that we can share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. Too many others and because I'm being lazy, I'll point you over to Social Source Commons and you can find my toolbox. Browser: I use firefox unless I'm forced to use explorer because of a work contract. Bookmarks: del.icio.us and magnolia.

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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. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. The media here IS the service. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. So, now is the fun part.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2011

The biggest advantage that social media can give your organizations is the ability to build networks of constituents, community, and followers without borders and limitations. We've also collected other resources to help you navigate the social media sea. And, Common Craft has a great breakdown of just how wikis work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

Not sure how to use the wiki software and may feel too difficult or time consuming to figure out. One of the design decisions in setting up the wiki was registration. The wikispaces discussion feature on each page is great for brainstorming ideas, problem solving, or pre-writing. We decided to make it easy as possible.

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