Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. – Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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MAY 7, 2010

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki. On Wednesday, Techsoup Talks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The toolkit includes easy methods for any team that wants to improve collaboration and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. Screenshot of podcamp Wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. Next, we need to create a wiki for the game so that we can capture these actual social innovations, keep participants connected, and continue the conversations!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

"What are the best ways to foster collaboration?" How to pick the best tools for your particular collaboration challenges. Collaborative Conversations have been convened in client companies such as Genentech, NASA, The National Park Service at Yosemite, UCSC, and The Center for Interfaith Relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog. I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Ah, but there's the rub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. s the wiki weird and the wiki wonderful."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. i.e. Can you email me the job desc?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Stewart Mader has just written a new book: Wikipatterns: a practical guide to improving productivity and collaboration in your organization, that???s Stewart runs the site Wikipatterns.com m, but the book focuses on the methods he uses for successfully growing wiki use within the organizations. s published by Wiley.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Opening up the way we work, collaborating with others to further our reach, and inviting the community to take responsibility for success (by extending opportunities to contribute) all help us build movements and scale up our work. This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application. Does collaboration on the mindmapping tool work best in real time or asynchronous - or does it not matter? Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? That is everyone jump in an edit in real time or do we conceptualize it like a wiki?

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. He writes: Nonprofits have approached collaboration or information sharing,particularly using internet tools as a resource, through several disciplines. Another, more focused on the tools of collaboration, is KnowledgeManagement. There is substantial overlap.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials. I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3

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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. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. I love the collaboration features.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. 1) Drupal Organic Groups: Organic Groups is a module of Drupal, which allows for discussions, wikis and the like. I’m sure I’ll miss some, so please add more in comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

The concept is simple as Nick Booth writes: "Some people really get it and move quickly to innovate in the way they collaborate online. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. You can updates through RSS. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

However, the tools continue to get better and better, and we are excited to begin working with Acquia's Drupal Commons , a recent entrant into the enterprise collaboration fray. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. Stay tuned!

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories : "Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories How two orgs have built and maintained active, vibrant wikis By: Brian Satterfield December 8, 2006 As emerging Web 2.0

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AFP Blog

JULY 30, 2007

The NonProfitTimes - eNewsletter: "Taking advantage of the first revision of Form 990 in years, the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) and Guidestar have created a Wiki page to solicit comments and suggestions for the new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form.Like Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, users can log on with a (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

How can social media people at different organizations collaborate to form action networks? You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. Integrated in other areas. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? I'm really curious what you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? " technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over time and distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. Call for Papers. KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding Sometimes called "Web 2.0"

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. But that’s it. For the full post, visit the SSIR blog here.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." Via a post on David Wilcox's blog entitled " What does it take for online collaboration to work at events?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

On October 17 and 18th, I will have the honor of participating in an interactive convening , hosted by GEO and the Monitor Institute focused on how funders can increase their impact by supporting networks and embracing more open and collaborative approaches to grantmaking. Check out these posts for background: Networked Funders Wikis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

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. Coordinate analysis and writing work with human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations, academic collaborators, and courts throughout the world.

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