Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

After more than 13 years working with nonprofit and cultural institutions, like the Denver Botanic Gardens , our firm has seen that these problems are epidemic. The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Watch the Black Girls Code Documentary, Problem Solve w/ BGC, & Converse w/ SAP! The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Houston, TX: Social Media Reality Check - Are you Measuring the Right Data for Engagement?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

It's a security cloud service that will address this problem: Most IT systems are fortressed. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. Everything. Illumio.com — is not launched yet. Venture capitalists would refer to its state as stealth mode. Do you have an emerging cloud service you like?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

In fact, we don’t see it at all, really, which is part of the problem. According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services. Casting Digital Shadows: What Is It, Really, and Remind Me Why I Care?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. You cannot guarantee people’s presence (in the metaphysical sense) online, and that makes it hard to tackle certain types of problems. I learned so much and quickly wanted to share a few insights. Size, for example, may not be as important as diversity.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. will be a problem if you just let your employees learn on their own. Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in KM World in April 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. This is my first experiment in solving this problem. I'm not quite sure how to make this work, but I expect that in 10 years we will have much smarter "collective" systems that leverage small bits of time, knowledge, etc from large groups.

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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

MAY 9, 2012

People find comfort in talking to others they perceive as "wise" when they are without direction or have lackluster solutions to their problems at hand. Folks want help and guidance but have trouble figuring out exactly on what. What is a mentor and what do they do anyway? There seems to be a lot of confusion around this as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This type of collective approach is how we should approach every large-scale social problem. Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild. It soars.”.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do. For me, it started in late 1999 noticing a new icon on our home PC.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Elizabeth has so many possible nicknames (95 according to Wikipedia). It's the first physical "problem" I'll till the day I die. As someone who has had very few physical problems in her life, it has made me feel very mortal, and think a lot about how to balance going beyond and accepting limits as I age.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. They wanted to dispel myths about what mental problems really mean. It is why they wanted to blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. " Griefing can be a problem in Second Life, although it does not happen at every location all the time. Photo by Peacemaker.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. Provide Context.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. Provide Context.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? 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. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? 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. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Furthermore, all of the vendors should commit to a policy that if the front-end or API is unable to download or connect to their data- typically because of performance problems- then the vendor should provide the data or access for free. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. Why pay attention to it?

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Collect clear data on the impact of several distinct approaches to the problem you're trying to resolve. As you read it, perhaps you'll begin to spot the biases your team might suffer from. Take a ride on the bandwagon, but be ready to jump off.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

There was just one problem: The First Lady’s presence required all guests to be screened through a metal detector which meant long lines of event goers waiting around with nothing to do. I know what you’re thinking: I have no idea what a QR code is and that link to the Wikipedia article isn’t going to cut it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I only have four months of accurate RSS subscriber data because I discovered a problem with my RSS feed(s) and feedburner. I corrected the problem with the help of one of my readers, Chris Blow. Unique Blog Readers = Unique Visitors (to the blog) + Average Feed Subscribers (consuming your feeds) Step 3: Explore It.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

But as George Bernard Shaw told us: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons. Agile methodology Guru Alistair Cockburn wrote that software development is "a cooperative game of communication and invention." Description and Attribution.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. The system lets users do sales support for people who might otherwise leave a passive website upon having problems or unanswered questions. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter? Real-Time Publishing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Process Steps One important lesson is that you should really spend the time framing the problem or your goal. A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. and this is not meant as a play with words).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

Some of the problems: (1) the license leave holders and redistributers open to charges of patent infringement. (2) Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented. But Keuffel suggests in this piece that GPL is seriously out-of-date and needs to be rethought.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. But there is an even more basic, fundamental problem that information technology has only recently begun to tackle: passwords.

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