Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I was so interested, I facilitated a session.) One thing that would facilitate this would be a more robust API system in CiviCRM – access to the data via REST or JSON, which would allow CiviCRM to talk with some of the tools out there like Mesh4X. The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. I learned a ton.

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MARCH 21, 2007

The ongoing discussion about tagging is well represented here at NTEN's blogNpTech Tagging Community | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "NpTech Tagging CommunitySubmitted by Bonnie on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 9:56am.Newsletter | NPTech | online community | taggingMarnie Webb, TechSoupBeth Kanter, Beth’s BlogTagging facilitates the sharing of information (..)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. Tags: Consulting Nonprofit Tech nptech opensource tools web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. Tags: Consulting Nonprofit Tech nptech opensource tools web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. To Use The Bookmarklet To Add Tags To Your Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

I “met&# virtually Chris first through the NpTech Tag in 2007 and he kindly helped me clean up an RSS mess. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring. Working with the Meedan and their creative development process was refreshing. Chris is the Director of User Experience for Meedan.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Following the keynote sessions – at 10:30 AM we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, with a facilitator guiding the process attendees create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone in the room. dc event nonprofit nptech openspace training unconference. Public Affairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. It made me think about the whole question " Can blog conversation be facilitated ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013. “You have to break the rules.” Beth Kanter, Learning from Failure.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? rating items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Can blog communities be facilitated? The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. " -- on the second post I pointed the nonprofit tagging conversation. The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

In the Jewish community, we’re starting to see “program director” positions start to take on “community facilitator” characteristics. Tags: 10NTC Lisa Colton NPTech Communications. In 2010, I expect this to become more explicit, especially with new hires. My husband calls me “Froggy”. I’m still not sure why. link] (blog).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

veritable Who's Who of nonprofit tech speakers and facilitators. Tags: NPTech NTEN online nonprofit technology conference ontc. Keynotes from Ami Dar of. Idealist.org and Marnie Webb of. TechSoup Global. 15 live webcast sessions on need-to-know topics. A free copy of the NTEN book, Managing Technology to Meet Your.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

It’s up to you to maintain an environment that facilitates conversation. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Here’s what some social media pros -- and our own Facebook fans -- have to say about responding to negative comments on blogs, forums and Facebook. Open the Playground, Post the Rules.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program. Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally. I know there are many wiki patterns - how they evolve, are they are facilitated, what works, what doesn't -- just read Stewart Mader's book. I didn't facilitate it, but I participated. Leave a comment and point to them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. blog nonprofit net2 nptech. Tags: nptech. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. I used the metaphor of a school of fish swimming together in a tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

m co-facilitating a group of people working in non-profit organizations in the Netherlands, working on what we call ???e-collaboration??? And now, I'm going to share some interesting nonprofit networks via the tags below. Technorati Tags: snnonprofit , nptech , net2. e-collaboration???

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Allen is a skilled communicator and facilitator in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors. Tags: allen gunn NPTech john kenyon NTEN Aspiration leadership series. He draws from engineering, teaching, and volunteer experiences, and is passionate about helping nonprofits and NGOs make better use of software technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2007

What I really like about the site is how they have used tags to facilitate people finding one another. This would be a cool thing to have for the NpTech Community. It is also a great example of pivot browsing. You can look for people by Interests , Skills , or People/Geography. I'm curious how people will connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. In Hawaii, each small group had a social media expert to facilitate the discussion - so the mix of beginners with advanced was okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. I invited folks to join the nptech group. Maybe more people will share their materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

She challenged her Nptech friends to think about how this might be used. It makes me think of the clock technique that Nancy White taught me during the recent online facilitator's workshop. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech So, of course, I had to set one up for myself. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

1 : Blogging Community/Community Blog - Basic Definitions This post was my reflection after taking a fabulous online workshop with Nancy White that included a link to Steve Shu's post and a question about "Can Community Blogs be facilitated?" Technorati Tags: digital_divide , blogging_communities , net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Connecting With New Colleagues. Conversational Key Note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

You are invited to page along, explore subsidiary links, listen to our linked audio commentary and follow our divergent "tag-paths" of related examples and resources: each main flickr slide inn this set has its own tag you can explore by following the flickr tag links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities. I asked if there were a set of best practices or design principles in facilitating blog communities. Steve has shared his learnings on facilitating a blog community. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

If you have taken on the role of community manager or are tasked with online facilitation of a community, network, or group and want to see how and if social technologies fit, this is the workshop to take. . For the first Connected Futures workshop almost a year ago, I led a field trip to the NpTech Tag Community and participated as faculty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. " I think he succeeded. " Here's the PDF of the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

You are suppose to notify the bloggers, write a brief description of their blogs, and tag your post with BlogDay2007. I plan on participating in a small group session called "Gender and Blogging" facilitated by Sopheap Chak. (I BlogDay is focused on getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2006

how or if technology facilitates social benefit, examples abound from the author's own experience that provide insight into how it does. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech Although The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change is not written to prove.

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