Wiki Related Topics 
Amy Sample Ward
AUGUST 10, 2010
Introducing the Global Scale wiki! That’s what led us to start the Global Scale wiki, and we hope that you’ll join us… With this wiki, we are aiming to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 27, 2011
Wikis can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.&# Learning in private is what most of us did in school. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki. It’s open or public document.
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Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 23, 2012
If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. What Is a Wiki? A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Building a Wiki.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 26, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
This post is my personal tribute – and a request to send her some good wishes on the Stephanie McAuliffe Wiki. Please take a minute and wish her well on her next adventure on the Stephanie McAuliffe wiki! Today is her last official work day at the foundation and tomorrow is the first day of her retirement.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 11, 2008
I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. I've been a participant in design discussions about wiki projects, but never the main architect. Her audience is new to wikis, so this is an excellent example of a way to scaffold to comfort levels.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 18, 2008
I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. The use of wikis for communities of practice, behind the firewall, to support project teams, to reduce email, or whatever is becoming more common.
Tech Soup Blog
JULY 26, 2011
We're excited to announce a brand new window into what we do and what we're discovering with the launch of our Community Team Wiki. It also hosts the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , supports micro-volunteering efforts , and curates resources like the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 31, 2008
Wikis have been used for knowledge sharing , learning , conference coordination , and repositories - and curriculum as community. Last week as part of ongoing reflection on working wikily, I titled as post " Establishing A Giving Culture on A Wiki " inspired by Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses).
Tech Soup Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks. This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Tools Web 2.0
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 24, 2006
Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Ah, but there's the rub.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 7, 2010
hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 3, 2007
There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog. I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 28, 2007
Danny Horn from the Muppet Wiki left a very valuable comment on my wiki post. He shares some tips about building wiki communities. Hi Beth: I'm one of the founders of Muppet Wiki, and I think I can answer. some of those questions about how wiki communities magically happen. People who host wikis should never.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 25, 2007
Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. s the wiki weird and the wiki wonderful."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 15, 2007
The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. The work of the editors is done on a wiki. So, I went poking around the wiki and I discovered this wonderful exercise she created to get people comfortable. I'm also reminded of Andy Robert's wiki on wiki facilitation.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 8, 2008
wiki, Twitter, face-to-face meetups, online meetups, etc.). SocialButterfly has run with some your suggestions, and set up a Changebloggers wiki. Your responses resulted in a long list of Changebloggers and lots of suggestions for how we can connect (i.e.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 6, 2007
I just installed a wiki application on my Facebook profile called Wikimono. What I'd like to see is a Facebook app for wikispaces so I can integrate my workshop wikis. Anyway, I'm using the wiki to collect and organize research on social media metrics for a workshop next week. Know any good resources?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 28, 2006
It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here This is a cool site.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 1, 2007
Stewart runs the site Wikipatterns.com m, but the book focuses on the methods he uses for successfully growing wiki use within the organizations. So, I've set up a little nook on my portfolio wiki called " Beth's Book Picks " where I will slowly add useful books. s published by Wiley. I just ordered my copy.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 16, 2007
I just had to blog this, the Twitter Fan Wiki. There's some great stuff here. What I liked is the section that pulls together some phrases that describe twitter. Challenged with trying to describe Twitter to your friends?
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 3, 2021
Note taking, project management, wikis, and databases can all be created, managed, and accessed through Notion's customizable interface. Notion is an all-in-one tool, designed to blend workplace productivity apps into one service.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 27, 2008
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? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. Here's the wiki link, edit it there please.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 15, 2007
Someone else in the conference mentioned the Berkman's Digital Native wiki that is looking at the difference between people who grew up with the Internet and those who didn't - and what that all means. But I wanted to flag and watch this wiki. Some very heady stuff that I don't have time to ponder right now.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2006
A wiki meetup in Boston tommorrow.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 1, 2007
The Wiki Carnival is coming next week! Two of my favorite bloggers, Michele Martin and David Wilcox are teaming up next to host a wiki carnival. What's a wiki carnival? It is a special event to get people to contribute content to a wiki. What wiki pattern does this most match? Photo from Obbino in Flickr.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 7, 2006
Can a wiki be an example of paying it forward? and Nonprofits Best Practices Wiki ! and nonprofits with David Wilcox who has a social media and nonprofits wiki here. Gotta love Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project Blog for this. Last week she wrote about her search for a good archive of Web2.0 I have a web2.0 Stay tuned.
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.
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. So, that's a sneak peek into the secret life of a wiki gardener.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 17, 2005
old style wiki Originally uploaded by teemow. That's a pretty good visual metaphor for a wiki. Socialtext developer Chris Dent has a long and well considered post on social software and why he does wiki. Got an email from SJ Klein who gave the presentation about wikis at the Berkman Bloggers group last June.
See3
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 7, 2008
I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation. It only captured the last couple of days of changes.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2005
Walker Art Center Wiki - example of nonprofit wiki.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2006
Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. It was created by Greg Cohen to share resources he has identified while exploring tools for the members of the Association of Private Voluntary Organization Financial Managers.
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,???
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. We recognize that some times it’s easier to share a link, talk about a concept, or participate in a discussion before jumping into a shared learning space like a wiki. Global Scale Wiki. December Roundtable.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 29, 2008
Six more lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0. Jump in over at the wiki. " -By Mazarine Treyz, Senior Development & Communications Officer, Urban League of Portland. So congrats to Mazarine.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
AUGUST 9, 2005
In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 11, 2008
What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 26, 2008
Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Since then, a number of different changeblogger tools, communites and events have been created which I encourage you to join, and to invite others to join: 1. Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers.
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