Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others.

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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. Add them to the WeAreMedia wiki here. Tags: wearemedia. The section about technology and social media describes a few key projects and trends. Have some thoughts?

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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. Tags: wearemedia.

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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. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. What's the Hash Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

In module 2 , we look at these learning goals: To understand the elements of a social media strategy map. The inspiration for some of the ideas in this module came from Chris Brogan , CCTV's VT Nonprofit Tools Wiki and a question raised by Nancy Schwartz in the first module. What are the general components of a plan?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Organizational Planning: A unified strategic plan ties together the: strategic place, business plans, and budget by using balanced scorecards and business process maps to strictly tie actions and expenses to mission-servicing strategies. Tags: liveblogging 09ntc it planning strategy. Contact me: Peter Campbell psc @ techcafeteria.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. foundations to aid those affected by the downturn. Drill down to see the details.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Tags: community mashups future predictions issues innovation socialmedia. Mashups are great. I love them! But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I used to help me with some preparation for tomorrow's presentation on tagging. 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. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? It feels like a visual wiki to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2010

Mapping systems are helping pinpoint areas that are hardest hit and mobilize aid. Micro-volunteerism is allowing all of us to "tag" photos of people and help identify missing persons. Micro-volunteerism is allowing all of us to "tag" photos of people and help identify missing persons.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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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. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki. Tags: case studies issues 4change climate change environment lessons learned social media. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link]. Kinda technical, but for any nerds the drupal.org profile of TckTckTck is worth a look [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. 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.

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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. This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. We write every person who responds to a message on the forum per a #DonateYrBrain tagged message. Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools. See the editable map here See the description from Robin Good See a larger version of this image Storytelling Resources Social Media Classroom Storytelling Resources WeAreMedia Wiki: - Storytelling - Share Your Story Cogdog Blog: 50 Ways To Tell A Story.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Some of the highlights include: An English/Creole translation iPhone app. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Tags: ROI. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does. Do share your thoughts.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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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. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. Tags: goals. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable.

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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. They also tag and analyze responses. 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. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. Finish the social media strategy map. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief. This keeps the training active and helps people attend to the learning.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement.

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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. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps.

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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. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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