Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. What could the peace community do?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An An [ecological] community together with its environment,functioning as a unit.”. Community ecosystem. Engaging other nonprofits in the community who are interested in similar causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Photo by Bob Z. At the last "follow the leader" session, John Smith from CpSquared said, "Communities of Practice are like a Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland." " I keep thinking the community on twitter or the village is like that too. Wikipedia Here's the description of Cheshire Cat character.

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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

APRIL 7, 2009

Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. Wikipedia is the most obvious answer, but is it really ready to be a primary resource in children's education? Photo: Bright Tal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Mushon. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. Keep in mind this is a community wiki space. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. Who will be their community in the years to come? For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). He has seen it all. But in the meantime, they work at the bank. Welcome to the U.S.,

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. Emphasize what you will do with the gift and how it will impact the community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. Photo credit: Globe uploaded by Karol M.

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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. If you're going for giant sunflowers space them about a foot (30cm) apart.

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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. components, including a blog community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. The definition: "A small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, esp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Photo by Peacemaker. 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."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

A fun way to give, and be part of a larger community, is to join the 29-Day Giving Challenge. According to Wikipedia , malaise is, "a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, an 'out of sorts' feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease. Flickr photo credit: Happy uploaded by Bev Sykes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Every person who clicks on a Google search result, rates a movie on Netflix, or adds a photo to Flickr improves the overall experience for subsequent users. The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. What if you wanted to present this topic through an authentic lens of community youth?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Engagement Strategie s.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

According to Wikipedia, content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers (or donors, volunteers, etc. blackbaud Community content marketing content marketing institute nptech nten reports Strategy Web Sites Communications Program'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It That's enough meta for now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Today I Cried resigns ! Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design.

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