Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Circleup is a social messaging application that allows nonprofits to communicate and collaborate with groups. The Brooklyn Museum is seeking a more diverse group of people to evaluate the photographs submitted for a crowd curated exhibition called Click. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Summary Mashup 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2006

This visual comes from Rashimi Sinha's essay on the question Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. Will tags begin to converge ? communicative tools???

Tag 50

Tag Analysis Bookmarking Social 50

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

Social Media 190

Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. so has the best view to continually evaluate and analyze what’s working and what it isn’t, where things are dry or over-watered, where the weeds are cropping up and where the birds and bugs are hanging out.

Build 143

Build Community Ning Offline 143

Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

We spoke to many of our clients and evaluated how batches are entered in many different applications, in and out of Salesforce. I’m very proud of this collaboration. Tagged: batch , Common Ground , NPSP , Salesforce , Starter Pack , utilities. They agreed without hesitation and here’s the result! What do you think?

Gift 190

Gift Contact Nonprofit Pledge 190

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

NTC 50

NTC Nptech Netsquared Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag South Dakota Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

Network 88

Network Impact Louisville Social 88

Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. Here are some of the more interesting low-cost solutions we've evaluated or used: www.socialgo.com. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software.

Ning 66

Ning Alternative Free Profile 66

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2009

Obviously measuring success and evaluating our programs along the way is crucial to reaching our goals, but staying focused on the mission is incredibly important so that we don’t get caught up in thinking we’ve reached the goal when we get a few others to dance with us. Tags: community mission social change strategy.

Change 169

Change Social Benchmark Metrics 169

Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2010

Microsoft just released SharePoint 2010, the latest version of its enterprise-level content-management, search, and collaboration platform. Tags: Acquiring Technology Consultants Databases Intranets Server Applications Servers Software Tech Support Training. Expert SharePoint Consulting from mindSHIFT. Sandboxing SharePoint 2010.

Sharepoint 43

Sharepoint Resource Learning Consultant 43

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Be sure to really consider this as there are probably many different groups, supporters, collaborators, or other audiences that you may not list right away! Tags: resources strategy community conversation lists socialmedia. . #1: Who are “They&#. This column is for identifying all of your audiences. 2: What we Want.

Conversation 111

Conversation Story Support Strategy 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Jeanne Bell , CEO of CompassPoint, led the discussion and was joined by Jara Dean-Coffey , founder and principal of jdcPartnerships, and Holly Minch , principal at LightBox Collaborative. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

Model 55

Model Impact Business Case Study 55

NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. Current Trends.

Open Source 88

Open Source Open Application Oracle 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

My colleague, Marshall Kirkpatrick , who works with Read/Write Web, had invited me to participate, but I was at another convening about network strategy and evaluation scheduled at the same time. I could have sat in the convening on network strategy and evaluation, but also have dipped into Real Time Web Summit live stream.

Place 84

Place Time Web Stream 84

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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

Organization can easily collaborate, connect, and reach out to others beyond the firewall. Evaluates current processes and systems on a regular basis and updates them as needed on an incremental basis. Tags: change management. Organizational leaders are willing to be uncomfortable in order to understand why and then invest.

Social Media 88

Social Media Adopt Media Social 88

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

We are able to work as a small team on the organization side because of the passionate, collaborative, dedicated Community. Here are some places to start: Evaluate your use of social media tools: do you encourage your supporters on other platforms to register on your website, ensuring you have their contact details?

Myspace 108

Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Community: refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. Tags: ROI. Here's the slide.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Media Aggregator 50

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. Group Collaboration with Feedback. A collaborative assessment involves learners completing a task alongside their peers and receiving feedback on their personal efforts within the group.

eLearning 69

eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

Tools 162

Tools Tech Map RSS 162

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. Peter and Madeleine describe networks as "platforms for relationships."

Network 95

Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

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.

Seattle 52

Seattle Global Data Metrics 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

Public 36

Public Research Participatory Report 36

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. The tools are now there.

Internet 50

Internet Tools Strategy Learning 50

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

There’s been an exciting development in online collaboration this month with GSA’s launch of Challenge.gov – a platform for Federal agencies to conduct challenges and contests. GSA picked the very cool ChallengePost platform after evaluating eight platforms that were identified in response to this Request for Information.

Contest 36

Contest PDF Government Collaboration 36

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.

Social 65

Social South America Disaster Mobile 65

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.

Social 61

Social South America Disaster Mobile 61

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. The tools are now there.

Tools 40

Tools Strategy Learning Collaboration 40

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. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. How do you evaluate your programs and services?

Build 220

Build Community Technology Action 220

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. Tags: Government. But that is a topic for another day, and another post. Stay tuned.

Government 52

Government Open Data API 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. How Abundance Can Connect Arts Organizations With Audiences by Marc van Bree.

Arts 101

Arts Twitter Examples Los Angeles 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. Kevin is adding the tag ???Harley It uses Flickr to host all of its photos. ???It???s

Social Media 50

Social Media Benefit Media Flickr 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Two gems shared by a participant was this leader board of healthcare tags and this twitter tool that lets you look up your legislator’s Twitter handle by zip code. Synergistic Collaboration: Who are you aligned partners online/offline? Integrated Social Media Strategy. Momsrising Layer Cake Strategy. How will you get their voice?

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew?

Network 103

Network Change Technology Social 103

NTEN

MARCH 25, 2009

What that is, I think, is collaboration and evaluation, facilitated by free-moving data. Tags: cloud NPTech salesforce facebook Google. I had the chance to interview him about his upcoming NTC session , and that set me to thinking about just what we COULD do with the cloud if we were able to look beyond the bottom line. .

gMail 47

gMail Slideshare Google NTC 47