NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Favorite software tools are all about managing processes fluidly. Central Deskop has also added a tool.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

For the past five years, I’ve been teaching social media workshops for nonprofits and lately doing deeper dives on the techniques of listening both for nonprofits and in my role as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation. It's always a delight check out what people have added to the Wiki.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . I was also able to share the workshop wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

NTEN’s gathered some of the top nonprofit social media experts to help your organization devise a solid strategy as well as learn the secrets of using a variety of social media tools. Experience a variety of social web tools that are essential in listening/engaging, storytelling, generating buzz, and online networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. On Day 3, when it was time to focus on more time on teaching the tools, we started with an opening exercise designed to help identify those in the room who had knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

How: 6 Tools and Tips. 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. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. tools into your PR messaging? Something to read before jumping into using the tools. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 More information here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. The next session (conducted in Arabic) was a demonstration of listening tools for social media trainers. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later. Do real-time “network weaving&# by pointing out knowledge in the room. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. Here's the project description (and it's evolving).

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. We also used the time before the event to promote the conference site and encourage exploration of the online tools that they would be using during the event. Pick a few tools and use them well.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

districts, from blocking and filtering to teaching children to be. TechSoup’s broadband wiki also has some great resources about developing tools, policies and resources for your IT infrastructure. districts, from blocking and filtering to teaching children to be. responsible users and holding them accountable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. I'll be curious to read more of these experiments. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , effectiveness , npo , ngo , workingsmart

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? Experiences?

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Specifically, it's a tool to help students explore how hardware works, try Linux, and learn to program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Today, about 10 minutes before I had to leave for the Making Media Now Conference in Boston to do a workshop for documentary filmmakers on how to use social media tools to market their films, I got the blue screen of death. Using the David Wesch's video " The Machine is Us/ing Us " was an effective teaching method for filmmakers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki. We had space for 25 organizations out of the 100 that applied.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

(And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? There questions about Internet safety issues, particularly how to incorporate the use of these tools with 4H tools. Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc. I am teaching two more sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. For teaching and learning. Step 9: Wiki Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. According to the NTEN blog , Salesforce and Salesforce Foundation has released a wiki documenting the nonprofit template. How cool is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

We believe that this sort of project is something that all teachers can eventually incorporate at the high school level and is an essential tool for developing effective digital citizenship. Several small scale discussions via Skype will be had with the teachers and these journalists. Social Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've created a wiki for other people to remix it and it has traveled around the world. I created a version to teach folks about creative commons licensing. As you know, I do a fair amount of listening, so when I using monitoring tools I can see exactly who is using my content and in what context. What are your concerns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

We also use it an opportunity for participants to get on Twitter as an individual and how to use it as a personal professional learning and branding tool. In India, the line between personality and brand is not strict as it is in the US – and the identities can be fluid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. Evaluation. Leave a Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. Each social media tool that I've been introduced to, I've try to remember that it's about the weaving, conversations, and linking. I hope to focus more on teaching and learning and intersecting with nonprofits and social media. It was before the commercial web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." Freecharity.org.uk Can cell phones ensure a free vote? Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

So, once I decided that, I realized I needed to find the right tools. ReadyTalk – this had been the tool I thought I’d use. You are not only able to re-play them but also embed the meeting on your blogs, wikis or other social media sites. I thought it would be a good endeavor to start with. It’s $.24

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. Ben Rigby, who was also in the room, was testing an awesome new twitter tool he created called " Tweet Notes " which helps you summarize the tweets, add the most tweeted links, and most frequent participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2009

A look at the tools you'll use. I'll be co-teaching with some awesome colleagues who have an amazing array of expertise in social media strategy and tactical implementation. Participants will leave with ideas to test and an understanding of social media concepts and tools. How social media fits into your communications plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. What social media tools are they currently using?

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