Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2007

I just had to blog this, the Twitter Fan Wiki. " You may have other ideas. There's some great stuff here. What I liked is the section that pulls together some phrases that describe twitter. Challenged with trying to describe Twitter to your friends? Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. Here's the wiki link, edit it there please.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for design and processes. What if you tried different processes to increase engagement or productivity? Here’s my curated list. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

The Wiki Carnival is coming next week! Two of my favorite bloggers, Michele Martin and David Wilcox are teaming up next to host a wiki carnival. What's a wiki carnival? It is a special event to get people to contribute content to a wiki. What wiki pattern does this most match? Photo from Obbino in Flickr.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Contribute your ideas here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections. the material???

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. social software,???

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Contribute your ideas here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Description : The TSG Contributors’ Summit is a chance for the partner organizations, funders, sponsors and community leaders to come together to discuss new ideas, new opportunities, and new ways of leveraging technology for social impact. Conference wiki: [link]. Related Links : TechSoup Global. Hashtag: #tsg2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 We will then create a screencast, with audience participation, in the style of a cooking show. (No,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2010

In other words, Community Pages become a whole lot like a wiki once they reach a certain threshold. I like the idea and anxious to see what a Community Page administered by the Facebook community looks and functions like. I still think that creating a Page for a campaign is great idea, except that now it needs to be a Community Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Employing technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize internal, cross-agency, and public communication and information sharing to improve government decision-making. add your own ideas!). Quick scan - look who's already using Twitter: US "AIDSGov" Service [link]. Red Cross [link]. and us too (!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

  I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it.   I've shared them on the wiki here.    And, of course, the idea of a low risk experiment. 

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

We were all there thanks to the efforts of Drew Conway, Jake Porway, and Craig Barowsky (Data without Borders’s founders) who had the crazy idea of bringing together well-intentioned data analysts and non-profits with data in need of analysis. and some good ideas for next steps. 4-6 (tomorrow!),

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

The idea is to have stories about people in the past, and the connections between people, with a wiki approach with some extra structure. I saw a neat demonstration at TED, when I got the chance to meet Janice Fraser of Emmet Labs. The focus is on pre-1970, so we have lots of kings and queens featured.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model. Check out the Project Spaces wiki. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I can see some drawbacks, like big corporations using the data to create products we don't need, but other than that, I think it's an amazing idea. Read about John Wilbanks' experience sharing his genotype on a public wiki. What do you think? Would you share your medical data to help others? Fascinating stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They put information about their program, things they have learned and resources they like out on the wiki. The idea was that why keep this goldmine of learning locked up? They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? November 1-15th). November 30th- December 7th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Crowdsourcing ideas for program development. You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. Ooutreach or educational program delivery. Professional development. Integrated in other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

Have you used social media as part of your volunteer or board recruitment strategy, outreach or educational program delivery, crowdsourcing ideas for program development, professional development or integrated in other areas of your nonprofit's work? We want to know about it. Submit your case study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. How did you educate people? Have some thoughts?

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. Tags: roundup 2009 bookmarks casestudies community communitybuilder free fundraising gardeningbook interviews list onlinecommunity opensource philanthropy postalicious public report research resources socialmedia tools video wiki.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

In A Nonprofit's Guide to Building Simple, Low Cost Websites , we share tools and ideas for building a simple, attractive website without breaking the bank. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Tags: roundup activism bookmarks campaigning education fundraising internet list millennials nonprofits politics postalicious report research resources slacktivism socialmedia strategy twitter wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. Social Media Influencers: as an individual you can join forces, share ideas, communicate. The ability to maintain a certain process or state. What is social media? -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. It has many examples of using blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare and other tools for both face-to-face workshops and e-learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. Prizes will offered too!)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

We needed a plan that would model the very things we wanted to teach, including ways for centers to: Share expertise, resources, and innovative ideas in a centralized place Create a cultural shift from a top down system of service delivery to a system where everyone is a creator and a consumer simultaneously. Fast forward to Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. Crowdsourcing ideas for program development. Add them to the WeAreMedia wiki here. Ooutreach or educational program delivery. Professional development. Integrated in other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program.

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