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 We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Jana will share some techniques such as mind mapping and sketchnotes as well as share the different options for tools – both analog (paper and markers) and digital (ipad). My Curated Lists and Wikis. Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. That means what you bring to this discussion is really important. Feel free to join! You can read the complete agenda here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

And, the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrants" comes from an essay by Marc Prensky dated 2001, over six years ago! These patterns point to some larger trends about generational shifts, digital divides, and dancing in the space in between. Is that quote the future? One of my favorite Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book suggests that the most effective method is to have a dedicated digital team that is a spread across different departments. This model can also be translated for smaller organizations when digital responsibilities are integrated into different jobs and there is regular coordination.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Digital storytelling is everywhere these days. And if there's any more widespread topic than digital storytelling, it's data. Pacific time for a special Digital Storytelling Challenge edition of the weekly CommBuild discussion on Twitter. Join us on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:00 a.m. How to Participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Listening for Nonprofits in a Digital World View more presentations from kanter. My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. It's always a delight check out what people have added to the Wiki. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2013

Pacific time for a special Digital Storytelling Challenge edition of the weekly CommBuild discussion on Twitter. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. online community tweet chat tsdigs digital storytelling CommBuild' Join us on Tuesday, April 23, at 10:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. . conference , Twitter , YouTube , and ongoing collaboration through the wiki. The Smithsonian is an excellent example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It was also a nod to the &# Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O’Reilly’s E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel of Wired Blog). Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

" Tags: roundup activism bookmarks campaigning education fundraising internet list millennials nonprofits politics postalicious report research resources slacktivism socialmedia strategy twitter wiki. There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action. Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries. Bilingual survey and polling programs to help you get feedback from your community. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. To meet this growing challenge, the American Red Cross is launching an initiative to address how to reply to these digital cries for help more effectively.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. Tags: digital learning events elearning nten wearemedia webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. The Digital Operations Center is one response to this scaling challenge. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” .” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

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. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Tweet them to @TechSoup and include the hashtag #commbuild.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Campaign page, Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , and YouTube page offer numerous how-to resources and examples of effective nonprofit videos. Digital Savant Podcast #3: David J. organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. Let begin by telling you what my role is not - it isn't to sit alone and write content and curriculum from scratch and use a wiki as a content management system.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

For more information on content curation, consider the following resources: Beth Kanter's wiki on Content Curation. On Digital Collection Curation - LibGuides at Pennsylvania Digital Collections. Content and Curation for Nonprofits. The Expanding Universe of Curated Content Delivery Formats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

They do network with other organizations, but they are not so ready for the digital foray. I hope Claire will share her thoughts in more depth on the JigSaw Puzzled Approach over at the Networked Nonprofit Wiki. Young padouan must practice patience daily while straddling this dichotomy.)&# Here’s Claire’s review.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The amazing Charity:Water shared their digital campaigning best practices with nonprofits in Melbourne. NetSquared (soft) launched our latest project, the Hacker Helper , a wiki that connects social good hackathons with problems that need to be solved. Matt Jung and NGO 2.0 hosted our first NetSquared Camp in China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

He makes the analogy that the process of mining the data for insights is akin to anthropology and that the team should be "digital anthropologists." Are you empowering all members of your teams to think and act like "digital anthropologists?" Are you synthesizing qualitative insights in addition to analyzing hard data points?

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. The terms "virtual library" and "digital library" have been increasingly picking up steam since the 1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The also had room divider screens that could be used as extra wall space to hang student work for a poster session or students could use to work on project.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

But as your digital strategy encompasses so many moving parts that often live outside your website, your revamped site has to take more than itself into account; it has to include your entire digital ecosystem. Many organizations look at their upcoming website redesign as a separate, standalone project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology. I opted for the wiki-presentation method. I thought for a bit about just going in and editing their wiki for my presentation. m sure they wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The conference is focused on the opportunities that new and emerging digital technologies create for media makers. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites." You can still register.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. But that’s it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The 4Cs Social Media Framework Applied to Digital Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

The institute connects Bay Area nonprofit organizations to emerging digital media technologies to better serve their constituents. The wiki for the workshop is here. (BAVC has a bring your dog to work policy). I did a version of the social media game that focuses on strategy, adoption, and selection of tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Until then, consider visiting the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki or the following if you'd like to learn more about Twitter: What type of tweets get retweeted most?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

Internet connectivity in this very rural area was a challenge – which is why the last few days of the training sessions were held in Kigali so participants could get some hands-on practice.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Let us know in the comments or join the conversation in our Digital Engagement community forum. What is content curation and why should your organization try it? Got social media tips or advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Recently, I've been exploring John Smith, Nancy White, and Etienne Wenger's work and their forthcoming book on technology stewardship for communities of practice called Digital Habits. (Be Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too). Often, I get the question "What wiki software should we use?"

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