Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Kristy Graves is a member of TechSoup's Online Community and Social Media team working across the organization to oversee social media conversations and support ongoing collaboration for the community team's online live events and various social media channels. Collaborate with Wikis. Tips for Collaborating in Small Chunks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

I was invited to give a keynote at a gathering of 300 IT leaders and managers who work for a large healthcare nonprofit. To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The Free-Agent/Fortress Dilemma in Volunteer Coordination.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. OK, enough preliminaries.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?) Just wanted to mention that we’re working right now on a tighter integration service to Gliffy that should allow developers to embed Gliffy diagrams in a wide variety of applications.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

" The deliberate style of technology work known as the "waterfall approach" (first solidify strategy, then requirements, then design, etc.) has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. The Challenge of Transfer.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

" The deliberate style of technology work known as the "waterfall approach" (first solidify strategy, then requirements, then design, etc.) has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Can you describe your work in the nonprofit technology field? Out of all this work, a software application was born, called MEMBERS ONLY, a modular application for nonprofit CRM. I've had two other previous work situations where I worked much more closely with someone named Michael Stein. We also do consulting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. I also created a customized bit.ly

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? So when do wikis work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki. It searches Twitter and Facebook for phrases or hashtags and dumps them into a google doc spreadsheet. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Yammer works like Twitter--people send out short messages that anyone can read or follow. You will effectively have a departmental journal of work going on, discoveries made, major events that deserve to be discussed and memorialized. Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

2) Get a wiki. Use it not only to advertise your services, but also to share files with clients, point to resources, clarify your working style/methods/contract, etc. It’s easy and cheap, accessible from anywhere, and will help you define your work. (3) They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses. organization's mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization. from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. content creation into work and events already happening. information overload may be a problem. I've also.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

You can also use Network For Good Good Card , it works like a debit card and the recipient gets to donate to any charity of their choice. In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us."

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