Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 11, 2009
I realized that this would be the perfect environment for us to solicit the public’s help in filling some of our long-standing gaps. Reflection question from Beth: Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue.
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Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports. What’s Next?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 15, 2007
Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? There's been lots written on educational technology blogs about personal learning environments that assume deep understanding of the topic. Pulling my hair out!
Museum 2.0
MARCH 4, 2009
question and allowed open response, it would not be as good. What's GOOD about Signtific is that it encourages people to reflect on others' submissions and react to them in a series of intentional ways. Maybe they'll open source the platform at some point so that anyone could use the system to play out their own what ifs.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 13, 2012
Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses. Keeping something important proprietary and closed increases the chance that it won’t make a difference.
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 28, 2006
In the work in Bolivia, we really saw, sitting around that table, women really talking to each other and seeing reflections of themselves; and watching the connection that then became available was worth all of it. But I had wonderful opportunities to be in nature, and to just be out in my own environment from a very young age.
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