Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. Tags: case studies resources casestudy community communitybuilding ctt howto strategy tsg. peer to peer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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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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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. See the participants map of the world. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc.

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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. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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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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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities at a sub-national level, for one country, using open standards. Develop tools to bridge data collection and dissemination - how can we better connect SMS and other low bandwidth tools with mapping and visualization. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations Government.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 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.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

To help: You'll probably want a map of some sort. There's also a free iPhone app , featuring maps, that will also let you know how far you are from the steps of the inauguration, if that's something you care about. ("That's right, son, I kept moving until I was exactly 2,009 feet away."). Tag things!

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. 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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. Should EDN be an aggregator for the sector, pulling in news and reports, information and so on? Tags: issues socialchange strategy climate change earth day environment social media.

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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]. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

One approach to aggregate this information is to do it by brute force, to manually collect and post this info on a web site property ? Technorati Tags: Global Development Commons. Tags: Strategy. irrigation management in South Asia? refugee resettlement in sub Saharan Africa?, such as is done by the UN's ReliefWeb and others.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

"Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns. IdealistNews.org could very well become a terrific, and time-saving, central aggregator of nonprofit news and commentary -- but that's up to the community it builds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. It looks like a mapping tool in the works that will let you visualize your Twitter network by retweets from Dan Zarrella.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. Does it exist? ahem, @pistachio ?)

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information. Tags: Human Rights Communication Collaboration. See the Darfur scores for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. Tags: change management network effectiveness. In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 or social media was all about. What style of dancing?

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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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. Make it portable.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? Tags: Global Health. Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work. how to organize and make accessible the huge quantity of data that already exists (and that will grow as sharing increases).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

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 ? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Tags: Training Design. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. Hashtag Stats.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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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? It is constantly in flux and only by aggregating and assessing the community in real time, with constant new connections and renewed re-evaluation can the curriculum stay ???current."

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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. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers. Max Gladwell also has more.

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