Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

One of the techniques I did during the report out of the small groups was throw questions out on Twitter. One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Csuspect: Only send links around via email to wiki pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In this post, I'm going to take a deeper dive into the actual work tasks of a wiki gardener - it is a bit more than simply weeding. I don't just ask questions, but eat my own dog food - engage people in conversations about it.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. Alison Fine just gave us a head’s up about a cool project she developed with her colleague Nancy Scola to help ensure a fair and safe election for all U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

The question was : How do you get prepared for an online community? What questions do you need ask as part of your planning? A lot of questions to be asked. Rob Cottingham and Alexandra Samuel have an excellent set of questions. Other questions will help you get your organization on board. So congrats to Mazarine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. social software,???

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Qui Diaz of Livingston Communications has started a 3-question Changeblogging Meme, which you can join: What is one change - big or small, local or global - you want to see in your lifetime? Changemakers/Changeblogger Meetup on October 15.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Those of us that provide technology support for nonprofits get asked a few questions over and over (and over and over) again. Screencasts are a great new way to answer simple how-to's and record the answers to those frequently asked questions for posterity. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2010

In other words, Community Pages become a whole lot like a wiki once they reach a certain threshold. “ Very interesting and three questions immediately come to mind: 1) What’s the magic number of when a Community Page is handed over to the Facebook Community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

PDT featuring questions from @ntenhross and @ikepigott. This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. This U-Stream will be archived via The Emergency Social Data blog. EDT/10 a.m.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

For example, to answer questions such as in which precinct do the most pedestrian stops occur? The second goal was a much tougher question – is there a racial bias in pedestrian stops? Researchers have been tackling this question, specifically in NYC, for well over a decade. 4-6 (tomorrow!),

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

delivers the best of both worlds, offering great keynote sessions led by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival, but in an unconference way with no PowerPoint, 15 minute leads, and open questions and dialogue for fantastic conversations. As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. NonProfit 2.0 Who is invited?

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Welcoming the Wiki: "A more interesting question is the impact Wikipedia might have on other technology companies. Will the example of Wikipedia help our tech employees to become more friendly?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Unfortunately, there isn't an easy answer to that question. StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media? Raise awareness? Build web traffic? Attract new donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

The big questions I want to know are related to the learning goals: What is the audience's level of experience? You can also encourage those who are less experienced to ask their questions. When I'm ready to build materials, I start with me setting up a workshop wiki It becomes a hub for all electronic materials. The Topics.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

It has some terrific questions to think about including: What behavior are we wanting to change? Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. What problem can we help solve? Where do we want to go? What’s our long-term plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They put information about their program, things they have learned and resources they like out on the wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Participants will be able to ask questions and share knowledge around what relevant data they can share to benefit their organizations and the social good sector. Have questions about data you want to see answered during the tweet chat? Have questions about data you want to see answered during the tweet chat? How to Participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Some questions we'll be discussing: What is content curation? Have questions about curation you want to see answered during the tweet chat or resources to share? Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Join us Wednesday, December 21, at 9 a.m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The question arose as to whether or not it was worth thinking about shifting some of that communications traffic from email lists to the web in some form. I think that’s a big question – it matters a lot what the demographics of the organization are, what the goals of the email lists are, and the direction things are going.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

There were some similarities and differences in both the questions and perceptions around engagement and community. Some of the questions raised in the webinar chat focused on the role of public media organizations as content creators and how community-driven engagement fits in the work they do. The questions he raised include: ??is

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

It asks you 12 questions mostly having to do with control and then spits out the biolerplate for your policy. Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. It reminded of the Postmodernism Thesis Generator could spit out a thesis for you in minutes.

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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. What I found most thought provoking were the questions we should ask about technology in charting the future. Add them to the WeAreMedia wiki here. Have some thoughts?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Because we know you’d be disappointed in us if we didn’t include them, we’ll have a live question and answer and a back channel discussion. The back channel will be moderated by even more experts, who will add additional insights and answer participants questions. Opening Plenary: 45 minutes. REGISTER HERE!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

TechSoup's A Cooperative Approach to Web Design guides you through the key components and questions to consider when building a website. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. For an example of a wiki, see TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media Page for Beginners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. It's always a delight check out what people have added to the Wiki. The above presentation is a remix of a remix of a remix. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: . Tool Box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link]. What resulted was a strategic plan that filled 1,470 pages on a wiki and was then edited down to a bite-size, clear and compelling 20 page booklet. So the question really isn’t did they create a better plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

A new study, by Convio, Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies, The Next Generation of American Giving: A study on the contrasting charitable habits of Generation Y, Generation X, Baby Boomers and Matures, answers these questions, and more. See an overview of the findings below."

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2013

Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 Communications and Melissa Roberts, engagement strategy director at Free Range Studios , will be on hand to answer questions and share tips on sharing your story online. Have questions about sharing community stories online you'd like to make sure we cover during the discussion on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

They are teasing out what’s working and are grappling with significant challenges and questions as they do this work. Check out these posts for background: Networked Funders Wikis. A number of grantmakers have invested considerably in network approaches, intentionally and not. Want to take a deeper dive? Working Wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. . conference , Twitter , YouTube , and ongoing collaboration through the wiki. The Smithsonian is an excellent example.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Have questions about contests and challenges you want to see answered during the discussion on Twitter? Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Nic spends his days in the Spiceworks community hunting spammers, helping community members, and answering questions.

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