Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. In other words, you have a learning journey here in this resourced, mapped out in 15 minutes a day over the next month or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

Map the data. I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” Establish the underlying coordinates. Draw a conclusion.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content.

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JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Driven by the learner.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

While the characteristics of your audience are important, they should not be the first thing dictating your design direction. and “How can we translate that to our website in a user friendly design?” . Not only does this apply to your homepage design, but to your navigation, as well.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 We looked at the museum map on the wall. There’s the “I can’t read the map” problem. When the aggregate names are abstract, it’s hard to know what to expect. It had considerably fewer than 1.3 million nodes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link].

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Designing an Effective Feedback Loop. There are several issues our nonprofit partners have considered in designing their feedback loops, including the timing and frequency of feedback collection. Following the tips below can help you design the feedback loop that is most effective for your organization. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

At Forum One, this kind of list illustrates the core concept of an internet strategy as distinct from a web site strategy -- not just how to design or build a smart web site, but how to use the entirety of the internet in a very powerful way to help achieve your mission. See the Darfur scores for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. Not so much how to use it, but how to use effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. Courtesy of Jon Husband, publisher of Wirearchy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. How do you invite people back, and how do you help them collect and aggregate their experiences with you in a meaningful way? They are missing a string. Let me explain. How do you give them the string?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Some really good design points. I've be using a tool called " What the Hash Tag " that easily aggregates tweets into a transcript. This has had an impact on the design of the cards, game instructions, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. Listening helps her aggregate stories for her blog and has helped her grow the readership. Organizations use both hard data points and qualitative data to listen and learn.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Just get started!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2019

Prospect research takes a lot of time, but software that aggregates donor wealth and affinity information will free up your time for in-depth research. Discover their interests by noting how they’ve designated past gifts, which philanthropic causes they support, and where they volunteer. Trust machines to do some of the work for you.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. Whiteboard: Why Less is More in Design. Critique Your Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

A volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch Twitter Vote Report.  we need lots and lots of voices heard on Election Day! s go and ???tweet??? this election! Here's the background information from the press release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Why nothing about social aggregators ? Check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

1) Bystander: Reads only (2) Gives Feedback: May add a comment to a blog post or add a link to a wiki page (3) Joins the community: Signs up for a swarm list (4) Joins the expertise map/advisory group: Fills out a profile and identifies a module (5) Participants in the collaborative writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. I'd two more issues with how the interaction design meshes with fundraising here and here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

whose applications are designed to be simple enough for anyone to use—is a term that mostly confuses and overwhelms people. It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection. Many museums have created short-term mapping or timeline projects that are post-it based. Most exhibition design is the antithesis of 2.0—by

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. He also shares some process maps for donor management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Your initial experiments will be designed around trying out the tools and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! With lots of conferences coming up in the next few weeks, head over to Techsoup and read these two articles - How To Deliver A Bad Presentation and How To Design A Bad Presentation. and asking for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Gonna put them here for now and then aggregate and organize the list back over in the wiki we're using to plan our presentation after I finish the slide. Forums: This one designed by Jason King. IMHO the winners will be those that understand it's not enough to do the same old things. MUST WORK ON PRESENTATION SLIDES. UK examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Some examples: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Imagine the impact on social entrepreneurs and their good work if they could easily design and build their own lightweight mobile data collection apps! It will allow organizations to go online and design a mobile app that pulls together the information they need, all with customized branding.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Today, a conversation with Elisa Giaccardi , from the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at University of Colorado , Boulder. Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia).

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