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. Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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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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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. I've been noticing a new hash tag #npecon floating around on Twitter and just added to my tag list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. 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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Other work might be creative such as coming up with a name for a new product or company or designing a logo, website or brochure or producing a 30-second video spot. Measuring Work. Does it help you solve a problem?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

This week I had the chance to attend the Electronics & Sustainability: Design for Energy and the Environment Symposium at the University of Illinois. mobile phone collector and aggregator. mobile phone collector and aggregator. Tags: GreenTech Hardware Telecom Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. For others, the concept of ???public public information???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Crowdsourcing is a killer business model, effectively stitching the market research process into the very design of products, minimizing overhead costs, and speeding up the creative phase of problem solving and design. Next Stop Design Process. Tags: crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing the Genome . Nitrogen Wiki .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Well, that’s what Mr. Tweet was designed to do! Check in on your tags and see if there isn’t any cleaning you can do! If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. Tags: strategy analysis evaluation social media.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

Chatting with web strategy blogger Jon Udell about the challenges in his work to promote adoption by content producers and aggregators of the very valuable local community calendars. * Technorati Tag: TCamp09. Tags: Events Technology Communication Collaboration Strategy. More followup thoughts later.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. For example, my dog , while a highly evolved social matchmaking device, is not deliberately designed for that task.

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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. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media. Learn more about #4Change or review the full transcript.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Think about mindset, language and skills before you think about tools, features and screen designs. Design to support conversations, relationships, stories - not to organise documents. In user-centred design, everyone is right. Design for real people. Don’t centralise, aggregate. People make technology work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. The other terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are some technical and design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. More >> Types. Organization.

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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. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

At the end of the day, regardless of what tools you choose, if the report is not designed for the user, they aren't going to get anything out of it. I've aggregated a list of tools and other resources mentioned below (in no particular order): Yudu : Yudu is a free tool that converts a PDF into a "page turning" publication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Some really good design points. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. What's the Hash Tag? I've be using a tool called " What the Hash Tag " that easily aggregates tweets into a transcript.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email. Tags: Experimentation Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design Facebook. Manny Hernandez shared this link to a post about it. Spredfast is a listening/content distribution tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

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. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning.

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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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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. Tags: Human Rights Communication Collaboration.

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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. Tags: change management network effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Marshall to discuss the report and the insights RWW discovered through the process of aggregating and distilling so much information from experts and Web users. Tags: interview reports case studies readwriteweb realtime report research web. I was surprised to learn how broad this field is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

What: The art of social instructional design. I like how it aggregate the social ant trails of the community. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings. Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

When I received Stephen's comment I was in the middle thinking about this issue as it relates to tagging communities from the perspective of online behaviors that encourage group collaboration or individual action. " The values that aggregate us are surely not neutral, but they are also not only negative! Can you even design it?

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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. Leave it in the comments.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. I'd two more issues with how the interaction design meshes with fundraising here and here. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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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. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use?

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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. Which exhibits allow them to aggregate selections from a group? These are the exhibits and design types that we should pay more attention to. design participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? Does the design that allows for multiple points of access and small chunks of contributions inhibit or encourage ownership and responsibility? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging.

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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. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use?

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