Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

When we kicked off the WeAreMedia, A Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits 18 months, we included two areas about content creation. We also touched on user-generated content, inspiring others to tell your organization's story in their own words. Are we moving towards a "Social Content Strategy." Content management strategy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Tweet Chat: Content Curation Wednesday, December 21st at 9 a.m. With so many people creating content and an overwhelming amount of information available, how do you know what's important or from trusted sources? Some questions we'll be discussing: What is content curation? Join us Wednesday, December 21, at 9 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. s the wiki weird and the wiki wonderful."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I am excited to say that we have created a bit more content, a new discussion group, and are planning a roundtable discussion for December! This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. Global Scale Wiki. Visit the wiki today and share your ideas and examples!

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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. Twitter: I also use twitter to asks for specifics content chunks.

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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?" Just keep adding sections. the material???

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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. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

The Wiki Carnival is coming next week! Two of my favorite bloggers, Michele Martin and David Wilcox are teaming up next to host a wiki carnival. What's a wiki carnival? It is a special event to get people to contribute content to a wiki. What wiki pattern does this most match? Photo from Obbino in Flickr.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Twitter API wiki. How to make quality content on Twitter. Twitter’s 5-year numbers. Pew research on Twitter users. Blog Posts. Twitter Lists for Nonprofits. Twitter for Nonprofits Presentation. Using Twitter for a Global Conversation. What’s the cost of “following&# on Twitter? How can nonprofits use Twitter?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. eCommerce sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We're very pleased to share the results of our TechSoup content survey. Community Wiki. We surveyed the TechSoup community to learn more about the TechSoup resources they're currently using, the topics they'd like to learn about, and how TechSoup can best help them learn about nonprofit and library technology. NetSquared.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki. See more at: Jump-Starting the GDC Content Ecosystem. An ecosystem to enable the sharing of information and ideas on the internet among international development stakeholders.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

My talk is a call to action to nonprofits to be more intentional and mindful in how they curate and consume content from social networks. I’ll be talking about the art and practice of good curation and also share some techniques for staying focused while doing working on social media for practitioners. My Curated Lists and Wikis.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 23, 2009

To make finding this info easier, I started building wiki pages for documenting how we at C3 do what we do. I considered making a private Posterous or blog for the docs, but I think I'm going to stick to HTML where the template is easier to edit, and I can more easily organize content and embed in Salesforce. and I tell them.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There are many free online website and content creation tools available. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. One key element is the use of an online homebase. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law. copyleft???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

While there are a good number of tech-savvy hipsters out there that understand terms like “ Static Web ”, “ Dynamic Content ”, “ User-Generated ”, “ Cloud Computing ”, and “ Semantic Web ”, the majority of nonprofits don’t talk or understand such tech speak. Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. and Web 3.0 and Web 3.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. Events continue through Nov. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link."

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. You also need social content. What is a social content strategy?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Ever attend a conference, for a keynote, and find the rest of the content to be wanting? As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. As sessions happen people volunteer to document the outcomes on a wiki (The notes of what was said is even better). Unconference here. About Nonprofit 2.0. NonProfit 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

Because I want people to know that I expect them to share things they find interesting, or to help further the conversation but that in sharing, others need to keep the content free, too. Because Creative Commons licenses help creators, sharers, and readers enjoy online content respectfully. Why Use Creative Commons in Facebook ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. It developed into something called " SpiderSchool.".

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Some of the questions raised in the webinar chat focused on the role of public media organizations as content creators and how community-driven engagement fits in the work they do. How is your station creating ways for the community to actually inform the services or programs or content you provide and create? Content Map Template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Additional Resources. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction. Visualization Techniques. Balance in Hyperconnected World. The Information Diet. 18 Minutes A Day.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Available through TechSoup, Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate is a family of tools for designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. Also available through TechSoup, Shopify.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. &# Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $. Perhaps it’s the one? Apparently, they were asked by the Wikimedia foundation to do this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

We've now made it easy to report quality issues with Bookshare books, and we have a new wiki-style webpage where all of the reports are posted and updated as the issues are resolved. It's part of our campaign to upgrade the quality of all of our Bookshare content, and to let our users know exactly what we're doing.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories : "Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories How two orgs have built and maintained active, vibrant wikis By: Brian Satterfield December 8, 2006 As emerging Web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

That's an important point for how web site content, engagement, and social content work in perfect harmony as we've been discussing and thinking about the topic of Social Content on the WeAreMedia Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles.

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