Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

According to Warren, Google looked at the mental model of the person who isn’t sharing online and how Google could inspire them to share with more trust and control. Google started with the asymmetric model of sharing first because it is hard for people to grasp.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? Futura is a private company but their model looks to barely break even on registrations and income from the Campuseros. He has seen it all. Food for a week cost another $80.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. s activity is the business model in for-profit ventures, like YouTube ? gift economy,??? the current term of art for this altruistic approach. People who???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. The toy turned out to be a fairy godmother crown and latter telling me that I was granted Fairy Godmother Status from DreamBank , a new model for gift giving.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm. 3) Be what you want to see. 4) Simplicity Scales.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. Grantmaker Resolution: Take the Outcomes Maturity Model assessment , know where you are and decide where you want to be.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. When the professor found an error, he had to tediously erase and rewrite a number of sequential entries in the table, triggering Bricklin to think that he could replicate the process on a computer, using the blackboard as the model to view results of underlying formulas.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Their disruptive business model is make a vast improvement on preventative healthcare by having patients use wearable biometric devices like the activity tracker Fitbit. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. Neesheet Parikh who have started a Santa Clara, California-based company called Wear MD. It has been going for 11 months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Wilbur considered the post “a very special trust,” (123) and set up a partnership model that “emphasized cooperation, integrity, and credibility, that way we could set some standards for other preservation efforts” (124). [1]. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild. A puppet feeds a condor chick. It soars.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. ” has made the nonprofit sector completely dependent upon the whim and the advertising models of for-profit tech companies. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. In organizations, the Status Quo bias can emerge from a strong cultural identity, or static models of your constituents and their needs. As you read it, perhaps you'll begin to spot the biases your team might suffer from.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Recently, I've been thinking and working with the concept of metaphorical design, that is, designing things by modeling them after other things. In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." This interest stems back to the very beginning of the Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What Is the "Sharing Economy?" Let us insist on what is most transformative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

" Hinchcliffe goes on to give us a clear definition for social media with pointer to wikipedia's definition and emphasizes " The key here is that people are the ones that use and control these tools and platforms instead of organizations and large institutions."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. In this model, rather than trying to answer a set of broad questions, you look at the spectrum of viable conditions and extrapolate useful strategies from those.

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