NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites. Cindy Leonard, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

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. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. Heavy Metal Umlaut ??? Fast forward three years later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Niche content. 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. Described the features and 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. Tags: Chafee Bookshare. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core. Library 2.0 is what librarians call it when we apply these ideas to libraries.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

What do we do with content that is controversional and, potentially, uncomfortable? According to Wikipedia , 20 million people have viewed a Bodyworlds exhibition. Bodyworlds is fascinating as a case study in content comfort. What experiences have you had with comfort or discomfort when it comes to exhibit content?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Eugene said not to focus on the content. It keeps the connections going.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. One of the comments listed other, non-web-based collaborative uses of short-format content, including potluck dinners. application like MySpace or Wikipedia.

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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. Where's the conference tag?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. With an effective User Interface, a flowing river of news can be a very compelling way to consume content. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Real-Time Publishing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

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. It might be a membership program in which the member can grow with the institution not via donor levels but via deeper content experiences with other members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. After all, you don’t have to have great content to get to a networked, social experience ( Twitter certainly proves that fact). Narratively, this makes sense. Surgeons act in order to make a diagnosis.’”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens are perceived as an audience that is particularly disaffected and hard to reach, and institutions are continually seeking new techniques that might connect them to core content experiences. While some youth (and adults) may be seduced by sexy technology, is that really the reason you want people to engage with your content experiences?

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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. If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, Tags: web2.0 I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 Unclear application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I familiarize people with what kinds of content are appropriate for the medium. For example, in certain circumstances I'd tell people to base their posts on three basic forms: short announcements, medium length excerpts from elsewhere with commentary and very occasional long posts of original content. How did you discover my blog?

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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. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 But one page!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Be personal.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Who cares if children's museums don't change as long as the content and the experience is good? Bob told me stories about principals instant messaging students to ask them to remove objectionable content from their machines, and students instant messaging principals to ask for more variety in school lunches.

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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. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. What content do they consume? You want to know what content your visitors are consuming and is this the content you want them to consume?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2010

Now that most nonprofits have a Community Page on Facebook in addition to their Official Page, it is crucial that nonprofits create a Wikipedia account to edit, maintain, and “Watch&# their organization’s Wikipedia Page. Notice how the Community Page has a Wikipedia Tab? Create a Wikipedia account.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2007

experiences (which I was overlooking) is their flexibility in offering multiple ways to engage with the experience and the content. The next group of people are users who rate, tag, and comment on videos, but do not submit videos. sites that revolve around content, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, behave this way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits. A post that uses the metaphor of UNIX permissions to explain open content. Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare. Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. Hallmarks of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. It's called Moulin.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). In social media, the rule of thumb is 90-9-1 : 90% spectate, 9% comment or rate content, and 1% produce content. of Museum 2.0

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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. Libraries are more customer-focused, museums, more content-focused. Museums provide the information that we deem useful or interesting.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Most of the things that I know about Wikipedia are from watching The Colbert Report. Rather, the focus of the conversations was philosophical: What are the consequences of user-generated content? Why is it so hard to digest the concept of allowing exhibition content to be by and for the people? so keep this in mind. in museums?

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