Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. The ProjectVRM site , a wiki, is a bit daunting to the VRM novice. To start exploring VRM, I recommend reading through the ProjectVRM wiki and utilize some of the tools it recommends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

They are “ learning in public &# on the wiki , paving the way for networked conversations with others. Here’s a best practice about Facebook that surfaced from the discussions. Here’s a wiki on custom landing tabs and more advice here. Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. Much of Jeremiah Owyang's advice is spot on. I presented a framework to think about this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. Let begin by telling you what my role is not - it isn't to sit alone and write content and curriculum from scratch and use a wiki as a content management system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

Of the nearly 400 people who listened in on Thursday, many say they gained real, actionable advice they could apply to their organization's social media use. is dynamic — blogs, wikis, and social networks that connect people in your community; Web 3.0 is static — it's your website, e-mail newsletters, and "donate now" buttons; Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Sound advice on how to evaluate which tech projects need to be done the exact same way that a for-profit would and which ones can be done creatively, with a deep dive into what “creatively” means. Resources: Further information and relevant links are at the Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission wiki: [link]. Takeaways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. Much of Jeremiah Owyang's advice is spot on. I presented a framework to think about this.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For more information on content curation, consider the following resources: Beth Kanter's wiki on Content Curation. Susan Chavez is a blogger for TechSoup's Online Community team. Content and Curation for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. CUA held social media forums in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne offering practical advice for nonprofits. Got social media tips or advice?

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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

MAY 4, 2007

I decided to use the Ethan Zuckerman advice of point don't write -- and pointed to some excellent screencasts and videos about social bookmarking. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

What's some advice for getting started? Throughout the guide, we're going to feature bites of hard-earned advice and micro-stories from the folks who are pushing the boundaries of wired organizing. We're not quite as a blaze-trailing as to make a Wiki-book, but we want this project to be as collaborative as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

replace "Be the Media" on the text in the wiki. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. I am hoping that once we change domains, all links the wiki will automatically redirect. Any advice on making this a smooth transition? NpTech Social Media Wiki. get domain name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2009

Their blog is called " Speak United ") Meghan used the materials in the WeAreMedia Wiki (and my blog ) and customized it for the United Way. . My favorite part is advice on how to respond and a story about how a negative comment was an opportunity. The handout explains the process of listening and how the tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. The second installment of the weekly TweetChat series offered some useful advice on nonprofit Twitter use, a tool that can be difficult to understand for many nonprofit leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. CU held social media forums in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne offering practical advice for nonprofits. Got social media tips or advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. My advice is to find one or two blogs that you really find useful and then gradually add blogs that are referenced by that blog and that you find enjoyable. Of course, I have crazy ideas about a zagats guide to nonprofit blogs, a collaborative effort built on a wiki or elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

The slides and resources list are on the wiki. What words of advice would you offer to other Extension professionals who are just starting to blog? I also got a few leads to more blogs by Extension Professionals. What is the biggest challenge?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

They are looking for general social networking advice as well. You can see what they have so far on Ning here and their wiki here. They are using Ning to build a social network and need some help setting it up to meet their needs, for example, they'd like to incorporate LinkedIn on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

on the wiki. Advice to nonprofits? My advice is to use Twitter as a two-way conversation. If you have a story that you'd like to share for the wiki, I'd be happy to interview you. Peter Panepento, Web Editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy Also blogs at GlobalErie. Just leave me a comment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

She also said that she uses wikis. askbritt online classroom learning education career advice. @santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month. Pretty cool, huh? Thanks Twitter pals!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

" The advice I usually give is to start small with experiments, proof of concepts. Take for example the story of water wiki at the UN ) I remember a colleague from a large advocacy saying once, "Our legal department didn't know we had a My Space page until we were able to show how useful it was to management.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. That's why I'm making the wiki full of tools - so it'll be super easy for anyone to do this to support victims of disaster. Advice to other nonprofits about doing this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Then, I asked people to report out the burning questions and add them to the wiki page set up for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. 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. mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

But even better, this question posted on my Fan Page wall generated 14 insightful comments with useful advice, including one from the Facebook developer who worked on some Facebook translation tools! If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. " My Web2.0

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

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. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. After a brief hiatus from blogging, the studio 501c blog with some great advice for nonprofits on how to explore org.20 A Couple of Really Good Wikis. 20 practices.

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