Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. s activity is the business model in for-profit ventures, like YouTube ? gift economy,??? the current term of art for this altruistic approach. People who???s

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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 First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm. Eugene said not to focus on the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. Why are our current models failing?

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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. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Yet surprisingly, now 14 months after its release, 90% of the content still rings true. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. Social Media for Social Good: Table of Contents. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

All who were involved agreed that intervention was needed to save the condor, but what kind of intervention became a point of bitter contention. We walked through an exhibit of life-sized models of animals and birds, many of them Pleistocene megafauna like the giant sloths and saber-toothed tigers, long-gone from the Earth. It soars.”.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. In organizations, the Status Quo bias can emerge from a strong cultural identity, or static models of your constituents and their needs. As you read it, perhaps you'll begin to spot the biases your team might suffer from. The results so far?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning.

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