Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. The use of wikis for communities of practice, behind the firewall, to support project teams, to reduce email, or whatever is becoming more common.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

We're excited to announce a brand new window into what we do and what we're discovering with the launch of our Community Team Wiki. It also hosts the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , supports micro-volunteering efforts , and curates resources like the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2010

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks. This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2010

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Wikis have been used for knowledge sharing , learning , conference coordination , and repositories - and curriculum as community. Last week as part of ongoing reflection on working wikily, I titled as post " Establishing A Giving Culture on A Wiki " inspired by Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses).

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 25, 2024

I’ve been a monthly donor to Wiki since 2022. Download this annotated example to see what Wiki does right…and what I’d do differently. If you’re looking for an exceptional example of monthly giving stewardship, let this example from Wikipedia guide you.

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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. Ah, but there's the rub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog. I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Danny Horn from the Muppet Wiki left a very valuable comment on my wiki post. He shares some tips about building wiki communities. Hi Beth: I'm one of the founders of Muppet Wiki, and I think I can answer. some of those questions about how wiki communities magically happen. People who host wikis should never.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. s the wiki weird and the wiki wonderful."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. The work of the editors is done on a wiki. So, I went poking around the wiki and I discovered this wonderful exercise she created to get people comfortable. I'm also reminded of Andy Robert's wiki on wiki facilitation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 8, 2008

wiki, Twitter, face-to-face meetups, online meetups, etc.). SocialButterfly has run with some your suggestions, and set up a Changebloggers wiki. Your responses resulted in a long list of Changebloggers and lots of suggestions for how we can connect (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I just installed a wiki application on my Facebook profile called Wikimono. What I'd like to see is a Facebook app for wikispaces so I can integrate my workshop wikis. Anyway, I'm using the wiki to collect and organize research on social media metrics for a workshop next week. Know any good resources?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2021

Note taking, project management, wikis, and databases can all be created, managed, and accessed through Notion's customizable interface. Notion is an all-in-one tool, designed to blend workplace productivity apps into one service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2006

It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here This is a cool site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Stewart runs the site Wikipatterns.com m, but the book focuses on the methods he uses for successfully growing wiki use within the organizations. So, I've set up a little nook on my portfolio wiki called " Beth's Book Picks " where I will slowly add useful books. s published by Wiley. I just ordered my copy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2007

I just had to blog this, the Twitter Fan Wiki. There's some great stuff here. What I liked is the section that pulls together some phrases that describe twitter. Challenged with trying to describe Twitter to your friends?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. Here's the wiki link, edit it there please.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Someone else in the conference mentioned the Berkman's Digital Native wiki that is looking at the difference between people who grew up with the Internet and those who didn't - and what that all means. But I wanted to flag and watch this wiki. Some very heady stuff that I don't have time to ponder right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. We recognize that some times it’s easier to share a link, talk about a concept, or participate in a discussion before jumping into a shared learning space like a wiki. Global Scale Wiki. December Roundtable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Can a wiki be an example of paying it forward? and Nonprofits Best Practices Wiki ! and nonprofits with David Wilcox who has a social media and nonprofits wiki here. Gotta love Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project Blog for this. Last week she wrote about her search for a good archive of Web2.0 I have a web2.0 Stay tuned.

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. Alison Fine just gave us a head’s up about a cool project she developed with her colleague Nancy Scola to help ensure a fair and safe election for all U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

The Wiki Carnival is coming next week! Two of my favorite bloggers, Michele Martin and David Wilcox are teaming up next to host a wiki carnival. What's a wiki carnival? It is a special event to get people to contribute content to a wiki. What wiki pattern does this most match? Photo from Obbino in Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In this post, I'm going to take a deeper dive into the actual work tasks of a wiki gardener - it is a bit more than simply weeding. So, that's a sneak peek into the secret life of a wiki gardener.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation. It only captured the last couple of days of changes.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. It was created by Greg Cohen to share resources he has identified while exploring tools for the members of the Association of Private Voluntary Organization Financial Managers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

old style wiki Originally uploaded by teemow. That's a pretty good visual metaphor for a wiki. Socialtext developer Chris Dent has a long and well considered post on social software and why he does wiki. Got an email from SJ Klein who gave the presentation about wikis at the Berkman Bloggers group last June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. social software,???

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

That’s where the impetus came from to set up the Global Scale wiki and google group – they were to serve as that place, that meeting ground, where we could find others, talk about our work, and start building up a repository of information and resources. Where do I fit? And we hope you’ll help us! What names would you suggest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

Six more lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0. Jump in over at the wiki. " -By Mazarine Treyz, Senior Development & Communications Officer, Urban League of Portland. So congrats to Mazarine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Since then, a number of different changeblogger tools, communites and events have been created which I encourage you to join, and to invite others to join: 1. Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

." Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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