Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

" It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. So, now we've given ourselves permission to get our hands on the tools. Because at some point, you need to learn how to use tools effectively and efficiently. Tools: Monitoring. Life Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Not wanting to miss an opportunity to play with my new toy, err, learn how to use my new tool, the Nokia N95, I did a live broadcast of our dinner. Ryanne and Jay even Ustreamed our live streamed - how meta. What role do technologies such as blogs, wikis and social book marking might play in your community???s s development?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

HootSuite (Desktop, Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a popular social media management tool. Ferret lets you see multiple social media streams at once and rearrange them using drag-and-drop. You can also fine-tune your streams to have them refresh at certain times. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like other social sites, LinkedIn is a place to tell your story and connect with others – and LinkedIn’s new and expanded tools make that even easier for nonprofit organizations. Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

How: 6 Tools and Tips. 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. And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams. My own experience as a learner and teacher is that social tools deepen the learning.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering. or furl.

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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. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. .&# It is not uncommon that when a new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They brought along their chimes which are a great tool for getting people's attention when they are working in pairs or small groups. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. While video is an effective medium, the perceived costs of equipment and editing tools coupled with the question of what will. Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

I also share my Slideshare content in my other social streams. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. 5) Tool For Networked Nonprofits To Share Draft Documents and Get Feedback. 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

First, I've been following the recent stream of posts about "personal learning environments" but haven't delved in depth yet. tools I use. All my learnings about screencasting are organized in a wiki portfolio. I was delighted to discover Stephen Downes screencast created with Camtasia for several reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Vincent Stehle moderated and other panelists included Paula Goldman , Omidyar Network, Jacob Harold , Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travis Manzione , Director of Assessment Tools for CEP. What are the factors that contribute to a successful OE project ? It is just getting underway both online and offline.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

The videobloggers were using it on their wiki. I used the metaphor of a school of fish swimming together in a tag stream. Etienne, or someone asked "Does swimming together in a tag stream make us a community?" A couple of days ago some of my twitter friends who are videobloggers started talking about Yak Pack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits. Why Twitter Matters View more presentations from Laura lee Dooley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

And it doesn't have to cost a ton: this video is made with basic tools that are free to use. ." KnowHow’s impact — Knowhow Nonprofit – Here's a great example of how you can reinvent the way your organization reports it's impact! Have you made a video like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston. NpTech Blogging, Tagging, and Wikis An excellent presentation on social media and nonprofits by Jocelyn Harmon and Qui Diaz is being discussed by Dave B. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

As Twitter has become more a common tool in the nonprofit toolbox, it can be useful beyond the marketing department. In looking at the Twitter streams of this team of organizational Twitters, they are re-tweeting each other or having conversation. A Few Tools. These are great tools to support a team of twitters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. tools to adopt. Google Aps. More buzz here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

" Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. The Case Foundation blog also has a section called " Tech4Good " TechSoup blog posts about an online tool and forum discussion about green policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. A tag is a label, but it's also a stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. According to the NTEN blog , Salesforce and Salesforce Foundation has released a wiki documenting the nonprofit template. If you've heard the term Enterprise 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it These were transcribed and added to the wiki — and now have participants working on incorporating Twitter into the mix. Content Curation Primer. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. bleeding edge tool, twitter. Also announced 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

They also set up a wiki. People want to hear real people’s stories and see photos of the town they are giving to, so she posted stories and had a Flickr photo stream. Have monitors for your wikis to clean out spam. Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. Tips from Sara 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? It dawned on me that I could play with some of those social search tools and went over to the ChaCha search engine where I searched with a human guide. Of course, the more efficient approach would be to get people to add the info themselves directly into a wiki.

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