Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. One the recommendations is: Invest in Social Capital. Drill down to see the details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Finally, you might discover that your learning technology isn’t designed to support the subscription model – it kind of forces you into the on-demand model. We are all for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. It doesn't work that way."

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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

APRIL 11, 2008

That's an important distinction because one key to learning how to use technology is constant and dynamic learning learning from doing doing from learning Now some new labels for of us who are working together to create noncommercial public Arts Web spaces in a globally networked digital environment. Steve Rubel called them "Aggregators."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Well, that’s what Mr. Tweet was designed to do! If you have been using Twitter for a bit of time now, you’ve probably come to the same realization that many others have—that it sure would be nice to be able to see your follows and those that follow you in any way that lets you really understand and visualize the network.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

We’ve cracked the competition process open, leveraging a combination of workflows and social tools to produce a compelling experience of real participation in key activities. Social media aggregation and promotion hooks including RSS feeds, Facebook “Like&# , inbound and outbound Twitter posts, and ShareThis.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? You make explicit designations by making purchases, expressing preference via ratings or reviews, or choosing some things over others. Problem #2: Designing the Value System But what's "better" in the museum context? They have direct personal impact.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Sparked also utilizes your pre-existing social network by. Sparked also utilizes your pre-existing social network by. designing a logo, all for free. Hands On Network. The Hands On Network is an aggregation of companies and resources similar. " Microvolunteering makes it easier to.

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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

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

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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. Effective listening through social media channels means that individuals and organizations need to identify why they are listening and how they will apply what they hear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. How are nonprofits using online social networks effectively as part of campaigns to build awareness, build community, drive traffic or raise money? Designing Effective Social Media Learning Experiments.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) NTC is just days away! Philthanthropy.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

It can be enticing to design experiences that will encourage visitors to "level up" from spectator to creator, or in my terms, from lurker to contributor. Digression: Some people have commented that my hierarchy of social participation suffers this fault by implying that museums should be trying to level up to higher social engagement.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. More and more, now we can.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

Part two of the report is a companion online aggregator that delivers the most-discussed articles each day written by experts on community management from around the web. Social Tech Training The inspiring folks at Web of Change are hosting the second Social Tech Training scheduled for June 10- 12th in Toronto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond 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. Instead of getting overwhelmed by the hefty challenge of creating your own social networking world, there are ways to jump into 2.0 It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection.

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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 There are two sets of social roles here. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators.

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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. O'Reilly Radar has a post about networking in Facebook. Why nothing about social aggregators ? Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Check it out. for his blog.

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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. Does your organization track and aggregate data that's critical to an issue or a sector -- say votes, poverty indicators, energy consumption, or spending? Don't let your data fall victim!

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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

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2007

They learn from and interact directly with their users (and more specifically, provide services to individual users that benefit from the aggregate interaction of the system with all of its users.) There's been a lot of linguistic tongue-twisting about the value, use, and abuse of the term "web 2.0." Our press opening is today.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. but still, a programming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

By allowing people to design their own events but under the original ethos of Twestival of raising money for a selected charity, the event becomes more self-organising. charity:water has a presence on Twitter and has the caught the attention of social media gurus like Twitter's founders and Mashable. It is not a template.

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Forum One

AUGUST 2, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. I focused on two attributes that I think we should all be cultivating: greed and generosity.

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