Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mike Monteiro NTEN's We Are Media : where the community is the curriculum ! We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll we out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits. Some additional questions came from a comment from Morgan Sully and a comment from Elana Wolowitz.

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JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. When developing social sites, personal user accounts and profiles form the backbone of such destinations. Social Conversations. User Accounts & Profiles. Keep Accessibility in Mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. There is also a social learning component.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Liz Strauss asks if crayons qualify as social media. Maybe if you were ask someone to draw pictures of social media or web 2.0 So that leads me to the NTEN's Be The Media Project ( name to change soon ) and Module 1 that we're building together and talking about this week. What does the Internet look like ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

This week we'll be discussing and building Module 3: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit Organization: Dealing with Resistance as part of NTEN's We Are Media : Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits project. Flickr photo by Amber Rhea. This module is about organization change issues you may encounter and and how to manage them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Today we start NTEN's Be The Media journey where the community is the curriculum ! We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits. Today, please share how you've made the case for using social media in your nonprofit organization's communications strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The wiki content is a first draft, there will be also be a community-driven editing process. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The entries came from a variety of other lists and from customer satisfaction surveys done by Campbell Research, NTEN, and Idealware. Once I posted the list I started getting requests to add links to vendor websites, tags, and comments. Now the good folks at Aspiration have taken my list and put it into the Social Source Commons wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For NTEN's WeAreMedia we're working on a tactical module about listening. t engage in social media, at least early in their recovery, their caregivers do reach out and share their experiences. Looking at the comments on just a "one at a time" basis is good, but seeing a long string of messages is very insightful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. Jon's comments on plone comments. Jon's comments on plone comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I don't usually blog announcements, but this is a little bit of social media kismet and couldn't resist. Andrew Nachison, President and CEO, iFOCOS, who helped created an annual conference WeMedia , left a comment on an older blog post. I'd just finished blogging about the book giveaway (reading Amy Sample Ward 's reflection about it).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08 They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality."

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Presentation by Laura Lee Dooley a metrics and social media geek for a nonprofit. If you want to find more, follow ntenhross from NTEN, the nonprofit technology network. Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Check out the wiki. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.30.07 That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

and Old Skool in Nonprofits " This adds beautifully to the conversation over at NTEN Wiki (name coming soon). A number of insightful comments have led to the creation of How Can Your Organization Avoid Drinking the Web 2.0 So does that mean that our org should not be investing time and energy in social media tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

This week we started Module 5: Community Engagement Strategy and Skills of NTEN's WeAreMedia project which focuses on online engagement strategy and skills. Six lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0.). Alex Berger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 at 9:04 am Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 Second, is bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me. at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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MARCH 12, 2007

Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me. at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki). He applies Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to his career in business and his leadership style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Some of my time will be spent on Foundation work, including exposing Foundation staff to social media strategies and tools and assisting in the enhancing of some of the offerings of their Organizational Effectiveness program with services adapted to networks. What does that mean? What does this NOT mean! So please respect that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. young people??? " I agree.

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