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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If writing up a case study or going to a Net Tuesday feels too time consuming, you can also help by tagging web sites in del.icio.us , photos in Flickr and personal blog entries that relate to NetSquared with the tag "net2" and they will feed into the NetSquared news aggregator. Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes.

Netsquared 40

Netsquared Case Study Aggregator Wikipedia 40

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. "If you're looking at an individual story a human will beat a machine to death," says real-time text analysis service Lexalytics , "but on the aggregate a machine will do the same to a human." Real-Time Publishing.

Web 73

Web Examples Time Action 73

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

dynamic content aggregation and network machines). Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable. This blog will explore the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0 If you want to know more about where this 2.0

Wikipedia 20

Wikipedia Museum Participatory Aggregator 20

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. Then others will find it when they search delicious (or other sites, like Technorati , that aggregate delicious bookmarks). Let's begin at the beginning by making sure you've heard of one of most interesting phenomena of web2.0: social bookmarking.

Tag 40

Tag Bookmarking Delicious Folksonomy 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. The value of that content is strongly impacted by the number of active users (social benefit), and there is some collective action around the development of wikipedia articles. On blogs and aggregators that draw heavily from 3 and 4.

Taxonomy 20

Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. He then set out aggregating and displaying this data in a unique fashion, "eschewing details in favor of high-level overviews and visualizations." Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ?

Museum 20

Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Searching between the cracks There are so many different places where nptech resources are being aggregated and thanks to Yahoo pipes many variations on the meta feeds that occassionally you discover little pockets of resources that either get lost in the flow or don't make it into the main fire hoses for one reason or another.

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

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. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned. That's very exciting, I think.

Wiki 50

Wiki Technorati RSS Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Also, keep in mind that Google offers its product for free because it makes money by watching you; by using Analytics, you're agreeing to let Google store your information and use it for aggregate reports.

Screencast 50

Screencast Analytics Measure Web 50

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.

Wiki 23

Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. Heck, I'm not even advanced enough for an RSS reader to aggregate blogs to which I subscribe. On the left, you can see personal content: my Gmail inbox, the Google documents I'm working on, and my del.icio.us

Google 20

Google Wikipedia Feeds Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results.

Nptech 50

Nptech Widget Tag Twitter 50