Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Wikispaces is a wiki-hosting service that allows you to create a collaborative website that is easy to setup and use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Some techniques I'm using for workshops that have become standard for me: Wikitation: A wikitation (word coined by Allan Levine, Cogdog Blog) is a wiki that you use to share you presentation slides and links. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

You can find other Twitterers who are interested in your book's topic on the TwitterPack wiki. Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. You may also want to start Twittering.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. Oh, and while this isn't tech-oriented, I was happy to see NTEN member organization Green America (formerly Co-Op America) featured in the January issue of ASAE's magazine for their "lunch cooporeratives" initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2006

I love this one of "Jake" - the green eyes are just amazing. Speaking of N-TEN and cat blogging, Nancy White, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and John Lorance did a panel planning on wiki. I didn't get any good shots, but looks like Joe Baker of N-TEN did. We are going to try seperate the myths from facts about blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Gave Daily Kos, Little Green Footballs, Huffington Post, and Tech Crunch as examples of blogs with ecosystems. Requires sustained effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

Update 7/14/08 SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where you can list your blog, Twitter feed, etc. Update 5/25/08: Based on an idea by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire, I started a Changeblogger Facebook group as a place for folks to connect and organize.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

With a couple friends at Green Memes, we're trying to create a new resource for the #nptech community - a free guide for the next generation of online organizers. We're not quite as a blaze-trailing as to make a Wiki-book, but we want this project to be as collaborative as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Green-print thinking. For a couple of reasons: IT departments want to protect the security of the company's system, Boards fear that will not be able to contain openness and transparency once people are encouraged to write blogs, collaborate on wikis, etc. . * Blue-print thinking. Red-print thinking. People change if they learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. Green Technology. Britt Bravo has a terrific interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space about Green Coworking. Some transitions at npower and omidyar. Google Aps. More buzz here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

After the Boot Camp in 2005, I wrote up notes from the five sessions I attended: Strategic Communications Planning, Building the Local Green Economy, The Seven Things You Need to Know to Raise Money, Community Organizing and Action, and Volunteerism Recruitment and Management, which you can read here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means. Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual. The features inside of groups include discussion board, file archive, wiki, events, a map, and a number typical features to support online collaborations. WiserEarth is where this movement can begin to see itself.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. The visuals used on the wiki (Except for the screen captures) came from flickr photos that were licensed using the Creative Commons attibution license which means I can use them freely as long as credit the creator. Openness - ????A

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

When I see the good hearts and ideas of students like these, or work with graduates of Green MBA programs, or hear 23-year-old, 2007 Brower Youth Award winner, Jon Warnow talk about how he and five friends created the Step It Up campaign after asking themselves the question, "What does the climate movement look like?" I don't feel worried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Harry: A Green Geek. Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Interview with Jonathon Colman. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Online Fundraising Predictions From Around the World.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Tags: roundup adoption bookmarks casestudies climatechange cop15 facebook fundraising global green list politics postalicious resources socialmedia strategy women womenwhotech youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. Holly Ross created a page over at the WeAreMedia wiki summarizing the posts and links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I shared the framework on this wiki – and encouraged other nonprofit capacity builders to remix it. I was thrilled to see this version (although not a nonprofit specific version) for content marketing from a report by Altimeter. Mix in some c ontent curation and news jacking. The name references a Martin Luther King quote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

One piece we did not use that we could have gotten some leverage- Pathable can add a mini WetPaint wiki to each session listed in the calendar, so we could have asked people to share notes, links there. Gone Green(er). First we made arrangements with CarbonFund to calculate the total carbon imprint of the conference, which was 234.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? An interesting article title, " Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools " speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here. Green Laptops One Laptop Per Child give one, get one has been extended to December 30th. " I agree Jing is the thing for doing micro screencasting. Can't afford to visit Bali?

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