Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Many non-tech people (i.e., people who aren't responsible for the technical decisions in your organization; all humans are tech people) will only tolerate a technical discussion if they can see immediately how it helps them. to get success stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. " The call of the curator requires people who are selfless and willing to act as sherpas and guides. I think I'm a digital curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. We also talked about how blogging is still relatively new for many people, especially nonprofits and that other channels are needed.Nancy White and Joistke H chimed in with questions and pointers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

I can communicate with new people who share an interest in my country. ve met people who I would not otherwise meet. My vlog has been linked to from a lot of the Cambodian portals so I have a lot of Cambodian people viewing my vlog and commenting. Why do you think people should vlog? Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. These are among the most mission-driven, idealistic people on the planet. Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. In fact, it sometimes works best when the responsibility for engaging the online group and planning monthly calls are split between two or more people willing to share the role. How will the CoP members interact?

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Advice to newbies in nptech consulting: (1) don’t try to be a generalist, or at least don’t try to know everything. 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. My policy is, I say hello to people, and might chat for a minute or so.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

People went to check it out, but no one added their own demos. They are best-used in situations when a team of people is working together on something and needs a central place to document their efforts, or when a group of people come together to share lots of content in parallel and want to document it (i.e. Great idea, right?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23