Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

This is both locally and globally. There’s a drupal/civicrm system in place and a community space that was a beta trial (that is closing down), plus knowledge/experience on the team of using tools like facebook, twitter and wiki platforms. Who is the community? What services already exist? What’s the sweet spot?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

WWL maintains a database of user contributions and uses its own ratings system to give higher priority to better translators. In a time when more and more nonprofits are blurring the line between local and global, I think that services like WWL can make a huge difference in how we communicate and collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail. The First C: Content.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We need to utilize these tools, to the best of our abilities, to engage and inform the public, because no matter how much federal, state and local officials do, we will only be successful if the public is brought in as part of the team." Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information.

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Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

I met Lina Srivastava at SXSW last month and I found her clarifying commentary on the " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social good/systemic change? See also this set of diagrams. very insightful.

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Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Gliffy has smart-looking templates for flow charts, database diagrams, system, business processes, and so on. OK, enough preliminaries. Here are my categories and choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. t have a clue."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story.

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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. Growing and Eating Local Foods. Browse through this list of resources about user-generated content in an educational context from the Horizon Project Wiki. Step 9: Wiki Wiki. Openness - ????A Can you find more?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

of me, but what I really want is something powerful that just works locally. I know it is awfully Web 1.0 The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2] Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I used the BBS to post questions asked by people in a local face-to-face support group who were not online. Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. I was networking weaving between the offline/online.

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Switzerland Aggregator Blogher Social Media 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I figured the same system would work for the book, and so far, it seems to be bearing fruit. Self-Publishing with Print-On-Demand "Print on demand" systems allow you to upload book files (usually PDFs), which are then used to print books to order. I paid for the ISBN but made my own barcode for free.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

2) Get a wiki. Even having ‘touched’ a system is a lot more than not knowing what it is. Bad planning, or no planning, can leave you holding the ball for a system that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed, isn’t used, or doesn’t do what the client expected. get a good time tracking system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

If they congregate in certain online locales, what are they talking about in relation to your brand/goals/issues/competitors? Resources WeAreMedia Wiki - Tactical Approaches WeAreMedia Tool Box 7. Do you have the systems and tools set up to track efficiently? What will resonate with them? Measurement. How often will you track?

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 106

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. In addition, the site should enable local stakeholders to upload their own information; enabling the directory to scale to meet the crisis. Make the Automated Export System (AES) Mobile Optimized. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

In one of our more successfully fundraising examples we caught the attention of a local blog that covered crime in Oakland. You can get started with JUST a wiki. started 10 months ago using JUST a wiki. Rather than build an entire system yourself use whatever is already out there. It also gives us a narrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

We ran around to local nonprofits in Eugene helping them with their technology projects. I am also trying to get folks to use WiKi, to collaborate, but it has been tough. Most folks now demand news and information from more than just their local papers. As is my nature, I see a problem and try to solve it. Why did you create it?

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

60) Search « Dreaming of a Wiki? Main | Is Going Local the Next Big Thing in Online Activism? » Tuesday Aug 08 2006 Spam Filters Arent Blocking my Emails, Are They? It seems spam blockers are becoming larger and more broad-based all the time.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. I just read the news for today at my local newspaper’s online addition. Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I Nudge me again soon.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

On the web, via the MN150 wiki, you can view the winning (and non-winning) nominations and additional historical content provided by the museum. We put a public call on the Web first and sent a notice to our membership and some local and regional historical societies, preaching to the choir, starting that way. It was at the fair.

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