Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

But at a recent project kickoff the bar for success was really low: "Our staff will actually use the system." The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. But both of us had limited success in encouraging our own organizations to use our wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. We came up with the term “Ambient” data to describe unstructured data out that is generated through social media channels – tweets, status updates, comments, etc. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. Need more RAM or USB ports?

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

Here are the comments I received from Rod: When I was in Pakistan one month after the quake, I met with multiple groups involved in information sharing among the various thousands (literally) of NGOs and governmental groups. He passed along some interesting requirements that are well worth thinking about.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. Let begin by telling you what my role is not - it isn't to sit alone and write content and curriculum from scratch and use a wiki as a content management system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. at 7:04 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.14.08 however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail. The First C: Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

Today I had a brief training in learning how to use Breeze, a web conferencing system, for the webinar I'm doing next for Extension Professionals. I'm glad I put my first draft thoughts out there because I got some helpful clarifying comments. The slides and resources list are on the wiki. Photo in Flickr. tools creatively?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

But you can turn that email into organizational knowledge if you put it where authorized users can see it, add to it, comment on it, and search for it. Here is a perfect application for a wiki. A wiki is a website that allows a community of users to easily add and edit content and is especially suited for collaborative writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. At hi s organization, he told me, the system blocked anything with the word “Facebook,” and online social networking was forbidden because the boss thought irrelevant for volunteer coordination. Share it in the comments. Do you have one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki. Prestige of commenters and other participants. Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

To see another work in progress, go over to MIchael Gilbert's The Authentic Organization blog where he has turned the comments feature on and is writing his next book in a fishbowl! " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. It will interesting to if there is reciprocity. Yet another great example of using Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. What’s involved in this? at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

We used a wiki and conference calls to check in as a group. You can dig deeper into the details over at the wiki as each participant shared a one-page “lab report.&# The experiments were very focused initial forays into social media. Participants go off and work on their experiments. There was also one-on-one coaching.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

From reading emails, to logging in, to attending events, to contributing to a blog or comments, even referring others who later become members, nonprofits can reward desired behavior in a number of ways. Implementing a badge system or leveling-up can reward them for their contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Eric Eckle left a comment about what lies beneath that fear -- how digital social networking can be more threatening "With online social networking, the individuals assume a higher profile vis a vis their employer than in the past. blog , creator of Charlotte , suggests in a comment that age isn't as much as a factor we all think.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

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 at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments. at 7:07 pm Take your sunscreen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. at 7:28 pm I’m a rather modest user of Excel or OpenOffice.org’s Calc. Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? 2 phil jones 04.19.07

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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! " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Leave a comment on a post. Is my perspective already shared in the comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change. You can read more about their work here [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Our morning panel went well despite a few technical glitches with the sound system. We created a wiki for the session that has all the links and key points we shared during the session. We've already had one or two people leave some questions over at the wiki, which I'm reposting here.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Don't want tickets/case management, don't want wikis, don't want blogs, don't want "here's what I'm eating for lunch" status updates - need to be able to to tailor interface to only what we need/want.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Don't want tickets/case management, don't want wikis, don't want blogs, don't want "here's what I'm eating for lunch" status updates - need to be able to to tailor interface to only what we need/want.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. He also commented on the empowering nature of social media and its ability to let one individual change reality. Merni Fitzgerald, public affairs director for the Fairfax County, Va.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. And a thank-you to the coders at Intense Debate for the commenting system we settled on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Do you have advice? Not sure what a Game for Change is?

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