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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made. Last few tips.

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business." million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! public information???

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? " Got some great tips from Eduardo Jezierski , Watford Gap , Csuspect , Peter Campbell , EricaG , davidLeeking , Seth Schneider , Ericskiff , Kalabird , bethdunn , and Greg. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. Photo by Mushon.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. tagging capabilities to keep things organized.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# 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. It’s really worth a read. at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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