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! No folder structure and that takes some getting used to).

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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. The analysis looks at frequency of interaction, relationship structure (two-way, one-way), and helps reveal structural similarities. Apparently this team chemistry is important to winning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

He also added that it is important to have structured information. While the ultimate goal is to improve the grantmaking strategy and impact , they are also experimenting with sharing the evaluation process and preliminary findings on the wiki as part of a “ public learning &# process.

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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). The average gamer is 37 years old and almost half are women. (JD). 60% of casual gamers are women. (MB). Design Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Structures of artistic expression in every medium will be linked and combined to tell new stories on how we bond within our shared new worlds. Information on the event will be announced via the NMC Campus Observer ( [link] ) and posted to our Campus Wiki Guide ( [link] ).

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Mobile phones. Tablets/Touchscreen devices. Voice Recorders. Floppy disks/CD-ROMs. Sometimes the problem is the technology -- or rather, inappropriate technology. It’s often referred to as the “last mile”, but the term I prefer is the” Edge of Network”.

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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. 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! tools that facilitate this. Marnie Webb by JD Lasica.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. You can dig deeper into the details over at the wiki as each participant shared a one-page “lab report.&# The experiments were very focused initial forays into social media. Participants go off and work on their experiments. There was also one-on-one coaching.

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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. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

For the full list, check out our team wiki. Make open government practices part of employees’ incentive plans and reward structures. My group focused on how we can foster leadership and reduce cultural barriers to speed the implementation of open government (pretty easy right?). Here are some highlights below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Development.

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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

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. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. The latest platform survey is available here.

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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). Most leaders, executives and senior managers have been steeped in industrial-era management science assumptions. From yesteryear to tomorrow Enter social software.

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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. The Nonprofit Communicator blog has a round up of local reaction. Secret Sauce: Chicago Workshop Final Slides View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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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. The visuals used on the wiki (Except for the screen captures) came from flickr photos that were licensed using the Creative Commons attibution license which means I can use them freely as long as credit the creator. Wiki Issues.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Their numbers are growing, and the wiki-based list of worldwide hackerspaces includes as many "planned" as "active" institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I tweeted this and Vladis Krebs had a great answer : The network is the "structure" upon which the community dances and self-organizes. wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you've created a descriptive drawing. . builds network as it needs it. Low-Tech Approaches.

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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. Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page. I'm pleased to announce that the second screencast is now available.

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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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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. I am actually posting the full narratives and final slides over at the wiki – now that I’m finally off the road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

Many of you are already familiar with our OE wiki site , and now we’ve also created a new experimental strategic planning site using WordPress. This is a periodic review every program at Packard undergoes to update their strategies. In keeping true to our values of transparency and openness, we plan to share our efforts as they evolve.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

Promoting Transparency: What it Felt Like to Write a Book on a Wiki I wrote the first three drafts of the book--every word--on a public wiki. Writing the book on a wiki helped me imagine that there were people out there who actively wanted and were expecting more content. of the words on the wiki. But that didn't matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

Not sure where to jump in because of the way information is structured. 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. Don't have knowledge to contribute or not interested in the topic. 3) Joins the community.

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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

APRIL 27, 2007

The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. can also use the statistics to improve the quality of their site structure. If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia.

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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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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). readers were not involved in the wiki process. Content review (solicited).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Some nice screencasts on how to use wikis can be found at the Commons, a wiki magazine for nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Social Signals launches a podcast series with " From Org Charts to Sitemaps: How Organizational Structure Affects Web Strategy and Implementation."

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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. I have a basic structure. And, of course, created a wiki as a resource. No wonder I am still tired! It always helps me improve practice. Teaching in an international context.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Advice necessarily involves a transfer of knowledge from one person to another—an interpersonal interaction—so both the format and the ubiquity of advice make it a great structuring concept for our goals. In this design experiment, we are inviting individuals far and wide to give us advice.

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