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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Defining the platforms – be it a wiki forum, open data sets for analysis, or a webinar – that provide the best pathways for learning to take place will make the process that much speedier and easier. And it turns out, those are pretty important questions. The who? Throw open the doors – there’s learning going on!

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

districts, from blocking and filtering to teaching children to be. Are you in sync with (Children’s Internet Protection Act)? enacted legislation pertaining to Internet use to protect children from. districts, from blocking and filtering to teaching children to be. responsible users and holding them accountable.

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. These were transcribed and added to the wiki — and now have participants working on incorporating Twitter into the mix.

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Social Media Lab: How To Become A Networked Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, we had the final session of the “ Social Media Lab ,&# a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program , that was launched a few months ago. We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. There was also one-on-one coaching.