Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

I'm moderating a panel at SXSWi called " Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change." We know that social media can be used to change the world. And the best part - We'll choose three case studies to be featured at our SXSWi session and, of course, add the information to the WeAreMedia Wiki. We want to know about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Earlier this week, Barry Joseph of Global Kids shared an observation during a plenary session at the Games for Change Conference that I simply can't get out of my head. But I wanted to flag and watch this wiki. He said and I am wildly paraphrasing. Some very heady stuff that I don't have time to ponder right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. It only captured the last couple of days of changes. Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections. the material???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Via the On Social Marketing and Social Change Blog summarizing an article in the NYTimes. Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. Photo: Thiru Murugan. This caught my eye.

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AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Alex Steed will be there as a stop on his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing tour (which you can donate to, like Beth Kanter did). Changeblogger Facebook to connect with other changebloggers.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

So, to change the name we need to: Come up with a new name. Make the changes: logo. replace "Be the Media" on the text in the wiki. change slideshare group name. change the name of the google group. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. change the name of the google group. Change Your Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. People change if things are appealing and inspiring to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

WSIS has just released a special report " Information Society: The Next Steps " that looks at how the ICT landscape is changing in the developing world and what lies ahead. Check out the section on blogs and wikis. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

To make finding this info easier, I started building wiki pages for documenting how we at C3 do what we do. The problem is that things change. You usually only need Pro if you are going to be exporting full manuals or uploading to a MindTouch or Confluence wiki. They ask, "Judi, how do I.?" and I tell them. Took forever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. " RootscampSL got off to a great start the day after election day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Last year, I attended the Games for Change Conference and lived blogged it. here's my blog posts ) So, I'm delighted to post this announcement for this year's Games for Change - and guess what? For this panel, I'm contributing a community wiki about the topic here. As one of last year???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

Obviously, this is the result of starting with a small group, lots of conversation, and some culture change. Yesterday at NDN: New Audiences, New Tools , the question of organizational culture change, resistance from communications director/eds who were "analogue adults" came up. You have to be an agent of change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees. Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

You'll have access to the chat transcripts and the content over at the WeAreMedia wiki. Amy Sample Ward has a great post about the WeAreMedia Webinar here. But, that's not all, we'll have a group of experts and practitioners in the back channel and break out sessions on other topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings&# on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. Hashtags – what are they?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives. The Climate Change movement has embraced technology for all the good it can do. . Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! 9,428 blogs from 150 Countries with 12,896,974 Readers and counting are participating -- you can still join the effort!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Science Behind Social Change Might Be Better » The Buzz Bin - Alexandra “SocialButterfly” Rampy has a guest post on the Livingston Buzz blog discussing the science behind social change. It has some terrific questions to think about including: What behavior are we wanting to change? Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I'm so glad that Ivan is adding his presentation and wisdom to the WeAreMedia wiki! Thanks Ivan.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

We are committed to changing beliefs like, "You are broken and need to be fixed," to "All people have the right to live in a community free of culturally constructed barriers." We knew that this technology project was worthy of a significant change in the way we work. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

One of the underlying stories of the 2008 election victory of Barack Obama is the really intelligent use of technology , in a way that will permanently change how campaigns are run in the future. Open Source Hardware: can it be done ? I hope so, and I’m looking forward to see its progress. Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

A new study, by Convio, Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies, The Next Generation of American Giving: A study on the contrasting charitable habits of Generation Y, Generation X, Baby Boomers and Matures, answers these questions, and more. But what is in it for campaigners trying to bring about social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal has an excellent post about of how to use your Twitter and Facebook status messages to change the world, one tweet at a time. She's also thinking about how to Change the World. You can find her Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, Second Life and many other online communities. And if you???

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The announcement and additional information (including that educators could continue using the platform for free ) came in April and the changes took effect in July. The group was originally set up on Ning, and with the change to a paid-service, Community Links (the organization behind Chain Reaction) helped the network transition to Grou.ps.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. to change the energy system. ClimatePrediction.net: allow your computer, when not in use, to be used to help scientists run predictive tests for climate change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Given some big changes in the core of Drupal, such as adding fields to nodes, as well as image handling in core, some things are much easier dealt with in Drupal 7 than previous versions, getting close to the ease of use of WordPress in that regard. Community Blogs. Simple brochureware websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. No one of us can afford to rest on our laurels, assuming that the old ways of doing business will continue to serve us in this dramatically new and ever-changing environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

They are “ learning in public &# on the wiki , paving the way for networked conversations with others. Here’s a best practice about Facebook that surfaced from the discussions. It doesn’t have to be a static content either, it can change according to your organization’s activities.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

This hasn't changed. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. I also like how it handles "wiki posts,"using more of a metadata-driven approach to organizing and presenting wiki pages (as opposed to standard wiki navigation).

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills. People and jobs come and go, job requirements change, and people’s abilities also change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mitch has a long-time history with online communities – having been involved with online communities for over a decade and so he has context. In an age of fast-paced technology changes, we can often forget just how valuable having a context is. I was delighted when he offered to write up some reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: .

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