Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. Want mapping? Online discussions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

And the goal of those relationships can be learning, collaboration, policy, service delivery, advocacy, mobilizing or action. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. I tend to map my "working the clouds" work in short, time boxed bursts.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices. Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work. Tags: Global Health. Seattle Children's.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Quite the opposite.

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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. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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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. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Second Place: $15,000. About NetSquared.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

What that is, I think, is collaboration and evaluation, facilitated by free-moving data. In the cloud, we can share client service data with other organizations and map it against the need demonstrated by census data. Tags: cloud NPTech salesforce facebook Google. You've noticed this, I'm sure. Pop your gmail to Outlook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline?

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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

JUNE 27, 2006

Chinwe Onyekere, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation There isn't a lot of opportunities for funders to talk about why and how they got into this space and opportunities for collaboration. To map the baseline on core topics, with six editors. For example, the work from Hope Lab - evaluation of the results of their game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Tags: sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. Submitted by David Neff. Bring your yoga mat!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In our analog world we are too focused on processes that aren’t scaleable or shareable – meaning we have a lot of meetings, we write things down on paper, and when someone that wasn’t in our meeting or isn’t in our town needs to collaborate with us, we have to invest in catching them up and recreating the work we have already done.

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Whole Whale

JULY 20, 2023

While Google has announced collaborations with three platforms to build integrations, the cost of these platforms may be prohibitive for many organizations. Unfortunately, all three come with a hefty price tag, starting at $30,000 per year.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Over the past three weeks, we’ve looked at the energetic conversation embodied by talk-backs, the intimate gift of personal experience, and the collaborative effort of co-expression and co-creation. But love is just a starting point, not a road map to success. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. Submitted by David Neff. Bring your yoga mat!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. We will engage volunteers to evaluate the technologies for how usable—and socially adaptable—they are. We are trying to find out how to use social tagging in big museums to engage more users.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Nonprofits have many limitations beyond fear of change, and Edward has some guidance for leaders: We need to collaborate or perish. Peter Campbell, IT Director at Earthjustice, dove deeper into IT performance and how to prioritize your goals through balanced scorecards, business process mapping, SWOT analyses, and technology planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

She talked about the importance of online collaboration and project management tools as a way to support those self-organized actions. (My They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. Tags: network weaving scholar.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You shouldn't choose the toolbox for your organization until after a strategy has been defined -- at which point the following should be considered: fish where the fish are , use tools that make sense for your audience , know there is no "one size fits all" plan and map tools directly to your strategy. Have a response process.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Like is there a video that I can watch so that I can evaluate whether I want to use it or not?” So make that map and keep it updated so when a new product comes into your environment, somebody. Third thing, back to your technology inventory, mapping your universe of all the stuff you’ve got. ” .

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. USAID contractors collect enormous amounts of valuable data as part of research, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation activities. Vote for this Idea]. Vote for this Idea].

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Thanks to all who visited the coLAB and participated in the Human + collaborative experiment over the past ten days. In terms of numbers, this collaboration was a success. See map on right for distribution.) How can we guide collaboration towards a goal? Tags: evaluation web2.0 Museums Engaging in 2.0

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