NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? Not sure if hosting a NetSquared group is for you? There's probably a NetSquared group near you , but if there isn't, we'll help you start your own. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Building a Wiki. Examples of Wikis.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2010

According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." Crowdsourcing is being used to help find the answers to these and many other questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What is it about the health community that’s different? For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. repeat x 1,000 groups per year. Absolutely.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

If you aren’t a hacker but still want an in-depth experience, join North Carolina’s Tech4Good group for their annual conference June 6–7 or visit lovely Vancouver, Canada for their NetSquared Camp unconference on June 1. Find your closest NetSquared group and join the conversation today! Please save the date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

Yesterday was the second day for a meeting with a community of practice of people interested in network effectiveness convened by Monitor Institute. I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. View more presentations from Eugene Kim. I learned so much and quickly wanted to share a few insights.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Community Health Needs Assessment), is collaboration between Kaiser Permanente, Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool. One of the sites discussed, CHNA.org.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

I heard from an organizer who told me that her last two jobs have come from her volunteer role in our community, and from many others who told me that getting together with their peers is what gives them the energy to continue to find innovative ways to use technology for good. Join them every month for a dose of community invigoration!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

As a mid-sized city with a collection of world-class global health organizations, Seattle has a unique opportunity to leverage the power of community and our “proximity advantage” (as one participant put it) to innovate and break down obstacles to success. or just optimize for the browser?), Let me know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

What has been missed, and what Campus Party gets, is that working in groups is central to most technology efforts and that relating in groups is central to being young. Who will be their community in the years to come? Young” is an important and nuanced word in understanding Campus Party’s achievements and potential.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Groups like MomsRising , CARE and Emily’s List have done an exemplary job of connecting with women online. You can have four kids and read a blog during nap time.&# Connect with giving circles and encourage your members to start their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They were also costly in that they pushed earlier and arguably more successful forms of ICT4D like community radio to the periphery, in an attempt to overcome the basic untenable economics of a rural telecenter, namely: . Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. I use FriendFeed to follow a group of people in more depth because I can see their complete social media activity in one place. In other words, I identify connectors across different "hubs" or communities that I want to track.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Love of the print book. It made me who I am. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. Different communities have different tastes, dreams, challenges, goals and desires! This will help you gain the confidence you need to reach out to new groups. So What and Who Cares?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. 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 Third C: Community.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

See a good deal more about the new cloud computing online services and other ways of working collaboratively in the TechSoup article: A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. A mix of conversational marketing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 27, 2007

Post a photo of your sunflower on the GuerrillaGardening.org Community Forum. Wikipedia and Primals Seeds' guerilla gardening entries (via Mancubist's Guerilla Gardening in Urbis) Treehuggers' Sean Canavan--Guerilla Gardener Extraordinaire. Join the Vancouver Guerilla Gardeners Meetup group. Grab Your Trowel and Get Dirty!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Social Networking Sites, Online Communities, and Experiments. " Best Engaging Communities " a large collection of best-practices info and case studies about managing online communities found by Ian Wilker. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network? builds network as it needs it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. re helpless to change something huge, like intrenched sexism, in the communities and industries we call home." Photo by Peacemaker.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

But anybody who's seen Cloverfield or I Am Legend knows what happens when a mass of people tries to cross a bridge to escape a bad situation: a bottleneck forms, infighting destroys group solidarity, and then something unforeseen destroys the bridge. (Or, And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Are there others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community. " Findhabeas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A large number of the collaborative projects of which I'm aware (in which staff partner with community members to co-develop exhibits or programs) are initiated with teens. Teens more commonly use the Web to stay in touch with their pre-existing social groups than to join new communities based on content affinities or interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Sink or Swim, Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups by 43 folders. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Your brand or tagline.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 258

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" Unclear application.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Who's sharing authority and how?

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