Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

We all know how challenging collaborative writing is: Jefferson carried around a copy of his original draft of the Declaration of Independence until his dying day, so people could see how it read before Franklin and his committee ruined it by putting it in the form we know today. a month to create and maintain your own wiki site!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. Process, clean, and transform data.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals. Fast forward to Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. And finally, the so what? The who?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later. Trainer models the steps to the three others, slowly – narrating what they are doing. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. . conference , Twitter , YouTube , and ongoing collaboration through the wiki. The Smithsonian is an excellent example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

These include intentional “weaving” of organizations by developing joint project work, initiating linkages between organizations, creating incentives for people to collaborate across boundaries, and so on. Social media in its many forms – blogs, Twitter, social networking sites, wikis, etc. –

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

OpenProject is a web-based project management system designed to help dispersed teams collaborate on projects of varying scope. They were also able to move data from multiple systems into one centralized solution. Project Management. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. The five ways of thinking addressed by the model include different views on what the authors say, "why and how people or things change" (p. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki. It is supported by a robust network of online services to track and organize information, services which are provided by multiple players in collaboration.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. or Code for Oakland ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

How well does your organization's business model support a co-creation network, and how it can be innovative in minimizing its cash outlay while maximizing its outreach? Does your organization have access to the technology tools and skills as well as the capacity to collaborate beyond your organization's firewall?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Sustainability models: how do artists embrace ???copyleft??? s name to the iCommons wiki. Icommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Many of this latter group of are veterans of what Extraordinaries’ Jacob Colker calls the “Command & Control Model” – programs that seek to control the relationship of the volunteer with the organization and/or cause. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Recruitment is just the start.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Google Maps.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

Their wiki states that CRM systems until now have borne the full burden of relating with customers. starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. But what does a VRM/CRM collaboration look like? We are all both customers and vendors. This still seems an open question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

Collaboration. Whether it takes the form of social media tool s , like wikis , or a conference, like Opportunity Collaboration , or a generation , or an economic necessity, I think collaboration is going to be one of the hot trends within and outside of the social change field. Truly sustainable activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

I modeled that I don't know everything. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it. We'll have check-in conference calls as well as use the wiki and hashtag to provide just-in-time learning. Learning Together Over Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

My early experience in doing technology training was collaborating with teachers to deliver professional development on how to integrate technology. I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach. Development.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We've also started using a wiki for a volunteer research project, and we'll probably expand our use of wikis in the future. The wiki model has great potential for us: since we are always looking to share resources through our website, why not make it easier for the public to contribute great ideas and resources they know about?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. What on earth is a Wiki? The Impact of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. tools being deployed including Wikispaces, Delicious, Slideshare, Ning, Twitter, Meebo, YouTube and many others) We will students researching and experiencing social web enabled learning unfold on the wiki. Who had input?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. Technology for Good Report.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We had no idea when we introduced our new Communities of Practice (CoPs ) engagement model that there were be so many questions and concerns, and I think this may be that very "once in a while". The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

These are programs that encourage museums to conform to proven models of success (standards and best practices). And when individual museums invest in projects, such as exhibits, they tend to put a lot of their resources into proven model (gallery, furniture, labels, marketing, audio guides, associated programs), and count on them succeeding.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Their numbers are growing, and the wiki-based list of worldwide hackerspaces includes as many "planned" as "active" institutions. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. Hackerspaces are mostly small non-profit co-ops, with 25-100 members and under 1000 sq ft of space.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work.

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