Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Danny Horn from the Muppet Wiki left a very valuable comment on my wiki post. He shares some tips about building wiki communities. Hi Beth: I'm one of the founders of Muppet Wiki, and I think I can answer. some of those questions about how wiki communities magically happen. Thanks Danny!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. Defining Community. Engaging Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Note from Beth: Mitch Arnowitz and I recently participated in an online discussion at Venture Philanthropy Partners/Leap of Reason about creating a community of practice for continuous improvement and high performance in the nonprofit sector. Communities, trust and The Tipping Point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. I've been a participant in design discussions about wiki projects, but never the main architect. Been pausing over the purist definition slide from his slide deck.

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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. The use of wikis for communities of practice, behind the firewall, to support project teams, to reduce email, or whatever is becoming more common.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Community commitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Wikis have been used for knowledge sharing , learning , conference coordination , and repositories - and curriculum as community. I wasn't talking about a wiki for fundraising - the literal meaning, but more the stated philosophy on Dave's wiki: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. Who is the community?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. The name doesn’t match the purpose. Where do I fit?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 8, 2008

In May, I wrote a post asking for suggestions for Changebloggers , people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. wiki, Twitter, face-to-face meetups, online meetups, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Like a good dress shirt, contacting your community is not one size fits all. Think of getting the word out to your community as a "dress to impress" moment, rather than a Sunday morning. So says FeverBee's Richard Millington, who will lead an online chat about segmenting, contacting, and understanding your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2007

I just had to blog this, the Twitter Fan Wiki. According to the official Twitter FAQ , "Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. There's some great stuff here. What I liked is the section that pulls together some phrases that describe twitter.

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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

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Online Community MeetUp ended 2011 by shifting the focus to the meetup organizers – the TechSoup Online Community and Social Media Team. Tenby, the team’s leader and Online Community Director, got her start with the TechSoup online community on its forums , now managed by DeLong.

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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. Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. There is an added benefit to learning communities. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we know that contests and challenges are an excellent way to marshal the enthusiasm and talent of our community. Our annual Digital Storytelling Challenge , Restart Romania , and NetSquared challenges are just a few examples of how we get our community members engaged at multiple levels. About Nic Tolstoshev.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

She was the first one to contribute something to the WeAreMedia Module 5: Online Community Engagement Strategy and Skills. The question was : How do you get prepared for an online community? s no community there. The community has no sense of community, because most CMOs see it as just another vehicle to push messages through.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

" Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

At TechSoup, we know that many nonprofits and libraries serve Spanish-speaking communities in everything from teaching English as a second language, to financial and educational services, to local family- and health-related programs. Bilingual survey and polling programs to help you get feedback from your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In this post, I'm going to take a deeper dive into the actual work tasks of a wiki gardener - it is a bit more than simply weeding. So, that's a sneak peek into the secret life of a wiki gardener.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

old style wiki Originally uploaded by teemow. That's a pretty good visual metaphor for a wiki. Socialtext developer Chris Dent has a long and well considered post on social software and why he does wiki. Got an email from SJ Klein who gave the presentation about wikis at the Berkman Bloggers group last June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

After reading a list of corporate social media strategists and community mangers compiled by Jeremiah Owyang , she wondered if there was a nonprofit list? Over at the WeAreMedia Wiki, we have a " Expertise Map " where people self-selected to add their names and in a number of cases share their expertise by contributing to the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community. mmm… community.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

For years, we have been advising clients on how to build, manage, and grow successful online communities. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. In our experience, this often works better for cross-organizational communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 6, 2011

Drupal – I use Drupal for my personal blog and also other purposes, like the website for my intentional community. Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki. It’s a wiki, but everything is stored in files instead of a database. Dokuwiki is a very cool tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. social software,???

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

In early May, I wrote a post asking all of you for suggestions for "changebloggers," people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, to build community, and/or to facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

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 I've been involved with nonprofit techie community and early days of NTEN since about 1998-99 as volunteer.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets. Brought to you Live.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Description : The TSG Contributors’ Summit is a chance for the partner organizations, funders, sponsors and community leaders to come together to discuss new ideas, new opportunities, and new ways of leveraging technology for social impact. Conference wiki: [link]. Related Links : TechSoup Global. Hashtag: #tsg2011.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside. Do you have to be an NTEN member to participate in a CoP?

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