Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. My central thesis is that social media can enhance all phases of the instructional design, delivery, and evaluation process: . . Tags: training materials. Audience Research.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Forum One

JULY 26, 2010

Securing funding, kicking off a project, running the project, evaluating progress, and following up: at each step in the program lifecycle, grantees have different needs. During the assessment and evaluation phases, grantees may be more motivated to share their work and show off what they have accomplished.

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Collaboration Time Synchronous Influence 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. WARNING: using an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy tool does not mean you can skip or shortchange the strategy and planning phases outlined in the earlier posts in this series. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

With social media, listening needs to incorporated into the research phase at the beginning but must also be used as the social media strategy unfolds (real time monitoring) and as ongoing evaluation. Tags: remix scholar training materials.

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Social Media Strategy Communication Remix 97

Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

What is the evaluation plan? Noting that the museum is at a very early stage in development and is still learning about its' audiences' needs (and getting their feet wet on the Web), she recommended a three-phase plan for both internal online skills development and external audience research and pilot projects. Tags: web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. I participated in a lively exploratory conversation about "How do you evaluate network effectiveness?" evaluation field, how it has changed and get a deeper understanding of developmental evaluation. But first, some context. .

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Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

On the web, a jury of the masses (anyone) can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. Tags: exhibition web2.0 It's very easy to sign up and judge. and you can do so now by registering here. What makes Click special?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

But I’ve argued that for many people, judging, sorting, tagging, and commenting on content are just as valuable—if not more compelling—activities as making the content itself. When we talk about tagging or mash-ups in the museum, there’s often a question of incentive. Tags: exhibition Core Museum 2.0

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes. We are currently in the first phase of implementation with a group of three Community Action Agencies in Massachusetts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Beforehand, in the planning phase: A short timeframe limits others’ ability to build online context about you. Not only did this give us a measure of success it helped evaluate the experience as a whole and focus us to come up with these lessons. Tags: socialmediametrics. What did we learn? What’s worked for you before?

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Canada Lesson Twitter Learning 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

Improve the section on evaluation. The outline is an outlier because it was used as a planning tool and enjoyed lots of discussion among people who were interested in the book in its earliest phases. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. This restructuring was based on their comments and edits. Conxa Roda was a queen of cutting.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

He set up an infrastructure for people to evaluate submissions by giving it a yes, no, or maybe, with comments. That’s one of the phases for which we had the least amount of time, and something we’d like to give more hours to in the next issue. Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent.

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Participatory Journal San Francisco Interview 36