Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. The idea: The online social graph is the map being constructed by social networks of every person on the Internet and how they are connected. Here's some take aways from Erika Bjune from the session.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. Update: Some more reflection on it. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? brief reflection after a meeting Do you have a free for all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A.

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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). Prizes will offered too!) How to identify and do more case studies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. 4. After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

We used a map metaphor , inspired by and adapted a post by Chris Brogan. We created a worksheet with more detailed questions adapted and remixed from CCTV's wiki. What I like best about this section is that the focus isn't on numbers only - these are reflective questions related to learning. Step 5: Measure Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

There is, of course, another school of thought, reflected with mantras like, "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. " There is a deep desire to instill deliberation in the face of big efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. Sometimes this will escalate into a collaboration -- an article, faq, how to piece written on a wiki or elsewhere.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

There is, of course, another school of thought, reflected with mantras like, "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. " There is a deep desire to instill deliberation in the face of big efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. These were transcribed and added to the wiki — and now have participants working on incorporating Twitter into the mix. and storify.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

They map out every step that will take them to realize their vision. Make time for the three R's: rest, reflection and recreation. It's important to make space for regular (daily, weekly, monthly) times to reflect, rest and recreate to keep you fueled for the long-term. Other people are planners. the end of poverty).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work.

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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. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. People revisited the Stringing Connections map several times to see what had been added, and Xavier participants came back to watch the Flickr sideshow.

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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. The maps are made by community members.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2007

was launched on November 2, 2006, after a rousing experience at ASTC when the words "wiki" and "2.0" Well, folks, we've reached that point. were tossed around more often than free pens and chocolate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. " Dave Cormier signed up to be a critical friend soon after the project launched and posted a reflection here. One of the design decisions in setting up the wiki was registration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. It blew me away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it 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.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Our desire to "protect kids"--which reflects twenty years of clamping down (at least in the U.S.) The audio starts noisy.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Would you have had better participation from authorities if it had been a wiki? (I As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). You’ll recall this interview , and this post , and this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Nonetheless, in reflection, I wonder: Is it time to stop using the phrase "social media for social good" when we're talking about the use of social media for charity? There are numerous examples in NTEN's WeAreMedia Wiki focused marketing and fundraising objectives. Those who participated reflected on their key takeaways.

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