Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Emily Inlow-Hood of PATH shared her group’s work on building out a strategic Wikipedia presence, and the discussion went on to consider a wide range of presence management topics, from mobile (build applications? or just optimize for the browser?), to Facebook/Twitter (which one is the more intimate medium?)

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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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

JULY 1, 2005

Creating a place where content around a certain theme is aggregated, in part by machine selection in part socially, and in part by a human. A large number of big corporations are using internal blogs to facilitate conversation between leadership and the rest of the organization. That's very exciting, I think.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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