NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. For the last 15 years or so, there have been many experiments using the tools of technology and new media to improve data collection. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Mobile phones.

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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. He also added that it is important to have structured information.

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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! Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Scratch and Game Salad are DIY game tools available for creating games with kids. (JD). The average gamer is 37 years old and almost half are women. (JD).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

The World Cafe is structured as a 501-c3, but it is really a network. tools that facilitate this. The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! Dave founded ???Spot

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

At first glance, it sounds like user-generated content strategy but with a more disciplined story telling structure and intentional networked approach than getting your supporters to share your messaging points in their own words or activating the activists with social media or cause-related marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. engaging in conversation, finding it more useful as a social media tool). I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Why map your network with a software tool? How technical?

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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.) We had a fair amount of discussion on different models for structuring listening within an organization. This group undertook several months of two-way mentoring - brief sessions learning about the tools and each other's work flow needs. How do we prioritize what to listen for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. 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. Commentary here.

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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. Step 9: Wiki Wiki. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

blogs, Twitter, wikis and various widgets (like IM interfaces that help people connect, converse, swap ways of doing things and gather feedback from colleagues and customers). From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

High bandwidth version on screencast.com Screencast Wiki. I got enough information to put together an outline and rough storyboard So, I had the overall structure for the 15 minute screencast. Also, the detailed audio editing that I was doing - like pulling out ums and splicing together sentences - Camtasia editor isn't the best tool.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Also, my whole career is predicated on a structure where I give away ideas on the blog and then people hire me for money. Why Self-Publish? respectively.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 7, 2012

The structure and challenge of graduate school has reignited my motivation to find a "real job." I discovered what Google Plus was, how to check-in using Foursquare and finally had a complete understanding of what Wikis are. I am now studying to get a master's degree in nonprofit studies (MNpS) from the ASU Lodestar Center.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The LinkedIn platform isn’t structured exactly to support direct fundraising, and I think people don’t necessarily appreciate when you don’t respect the medium. So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. I still talk to lots of folks, mostly young staff members, who are struggling to find ways to feature visitors' voices and break down standard authoritarian design structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Learning Goals. To understand the definition web analytics. You won't be able to think.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. at 10:55 am Michelle- We spent a lot of effort to make the Plone/Salesforce integration products completely agnostic about your Salesforce.com data structures. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Gyrus

JULY 7, 2016

In the business world, the typical goal is to introduce new materials in a defined and regimented way, reinforce policies, and create a structured actionable methodology which can be repeated. Currently, the usage of discussion boards and wikis are best suited in the academic field, but this is changing. How are they supported?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Other things around collaboration: making sure that everyone on staff knew exactly which tools to use to collaborate with their colleagues, and obviously management. So, essentially using tools that are not quote-unquote “organization-sanctioned” tools. So, you can roll out actual tools to help protect the data within a device.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

I wrote the plans, outlines, and multiple drafts on a public wiki that was available for review, edits, and comments. 65 people participated on the wiki, though the vast majority of the activity came from a core group of 15 (more on that below). Content review (solicited). Content review (stealth). Copy editing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. If anything, having social media as part of your trainer's tool box makes this an easy task. I have a basic structure. And, of course, created a wiki as a resource. I don't over prepare.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

We'll be talking about new tools and technologies, best practices in adopting them, organizational development issues to adopt them, and infrastructural needs to support the transformation. In the coming weeks, we'll be soliciting suggestions from the community on the content, speakers, participants, structure of the conference.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. How much structure is motivating and how much becomes a chore? So what does this collaborative platform look like? All of this is sweeping many new questions into my mind. What will incentivize different kinds of people to participate?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor. Very dangerous things (health and safety) Adult camp-in “Partner Swap Among the Dinosaurs” An exhibition on techniques, tips, and tools for covert eco-terrorism aimed at affecting government policy. The right advocates for the opposite.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Tracking Change Wiki : Provides a platform to get involved in the policymaking process.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] and those Structural adjustment plans had very harsh yet actually superficial theoretical ways of wanting to solve this – and never did) And unfortunately $1.50 Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I

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