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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

That’s where the impetus came from to set up the Global Scale wiki and google group – they were to serve as that place, that meeting ground, where we could find others, talk about our work, and start building up a repository of information and resources. Bonnie’s reflections are up on her blog, too. where do I fit?

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APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

I didn’t get a chance to attend many sessions because I was in Atlanta a short-term, but I am grateful for the wiki journal report by Kathy Reich from the Packard Foundation her key takeaways. &# She had a number of people approach her!

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In my last reflection, I talked about balancing participation on home base and outposts. First, on the wiki's top page, I have include a "What We're Working On Right Now" (see here ). Photo by one2c900d.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The

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JANUARY 31, 2007

David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. He's spot on. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.

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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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JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. 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. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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JULY 24, 2009

I used the wiki a flip chart - so the leave behind is the slide deck, notes, and a few resources. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. In fact, you need these skills to really reap the benefits of your professional online network. EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation.

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APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Takeaways. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online. How To Focus in an Age of Distraction.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki. So, need to take what I learned from this session into that as well as learn how to use Media Wiki. I am teaching two more sessions.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Nancy White asked some great questions that lead to some good reflections. For more resources on this topic, see my personal fundraising wiki. I stayed up last night for a discussion about fundraising on social networking sites. You'll find the slides, a recording, and notes on the FLNW blog. Some people don't like to do it.

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MARCH 14, 2012

The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Learning in public requires program staff to feel safe – not necessarily comfortable, but safe.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Trainer Reflection.

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

I wanted to write some reflections about what worked and what could have been improved with the Social Media Game.  I took some live notes over on the wiki , but Lorelle has a wonderful post summarizing the learnings from the game that can be taken into your practice.  I set up a wiki. Start today.

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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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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well.

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AUGUST 19, 2013

After I wrote up this summary on my blog, How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals , Mitch offered to write a guest post reflecting on peer learning online and online communities. Online Communities: Are Best Practices Still Best Practices?

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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.)

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JUNE 5, 2009

The game wiki is here. This is probably more appropriate for a more advanced level. The report outs from the small group had some terrific strategy ideas and approaches. You can read the notes here. On of the ah ha content moments for me was: "You mean there are young people in our organizations who know how to use these tools?"

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. We then did our respective workshops on strategy and tactics and then reconvened as a whole group to do a little bit of a reflection.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The also had room divider screens that could be used as extra wall space to hang student work for a poster session or students could use to work on project.

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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: .

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. But that was last month's thinking, the Webinar gave me a chance to reflect and incorporate new learnings, particularly with some of the professional tools. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. 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. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. When I'm ready to build materials, I start with me setting up a workshop wiki It becomes a hub for all electronic materials.

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JULY 31, 2008

A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Wikis as a natural solution for unstructured information. Wikis Are Now Serious Business.

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JANUARY 9, 2009

Nonetheless, the reflection questions are very valuable and important to incorporate in your strategy planning and reflection process. And usually have to submit reports that demonstrate "impact." Nonprofits need to learn the insights and also understand the value of the investment. Chris Brogan, Listening to Blogs, Really Listening.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2007

The final list will be available over at the client's workspace on Omidyar, a wiki-like space. In reflecting on the results, I thought a better social search strategy might be to use linked in and collect recommendations from contacts in these various disciplines. Nonprofit Technology. Technology. Social Change. Social Enterprise.

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MARCH 31, 2009

Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference.

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JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. If you clicked on the poster, you could view a web page or receive a text document describing the project (these were educational technology projects such as " Using Wikis To Promote Student Learning. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

. Screen capture here : I've been running small experiments on the art of retweeting for a couple of weeks and it's time for a reflection. . Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. Bytes of Wisdom or humor : I share some geek humor now and then.

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MAY 8, 2007

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? That is everyone jump in an edit in real time or do we conceptualize it like a wiki? That is everyone jump in an edit in real time or do we conceptualize it like a wiki?

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