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. It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. Screenshot of podcamp Wiki.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 25, 2024

It worked well. I’ve been a monthly donor to Wiki since 2022. Download this annotated example to see what Wiki does right…and what I’d do differently. Another way to look at Asks: let’s say I’m a monthly giver, and your organization has an emergency.

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Tech Soup

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

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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. So, that's a sneak peek into the secret life of a wiki gardener.

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Tech Soup

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.

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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).

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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. having their name attached to their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. I have the great joy of working with Nancy White as guest editor for the KM4 Journal Issue on Technology Stewardship. The work of the editors is done on a wiki. I'm also reminded of Andy Robert's wiki on wiki facilitation.

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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."

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Opening up the way we work, collaborating with others to further our reach, and inviting the community to take responsibility for success (by extending opportunities to contribute) all help us build movements and scale up our work. This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

"We've been working on a job description for a new staff person and have been talking about what software skills we should identify in the job description. But I wanted to flag and watch this wiki. He said and I am wildly paraphrasing. I think this is less important than having the skill to learn new software.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. And we still see that need, and still think we can help.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Paula Goldman shared some thoughts about foundation intent in using social media, particularly amplifying grantees work and thought leadership. In addition, Kathy Reich, mentioned the potential of using social media to help inform and improve grant-making strategy. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Meetings are a big part of our work week, whether it is a recurring staff, team, or board meeting or informal check-in. – Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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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.

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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. He goes on to say: I'm going to be working with george siemens on a course starting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). What does working wikily mean? We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Over at the WeAreMedia Wiki, we have a " Expertise Map " where people self-selected to add their names and in a number of cases share their expertise by contributing to the wiki. I'd like to see a list of people who work as social media strategists as part of their job at a nonprofit or a community manager.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. 2009 NTENny Spotlight: David Krumlauf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

It's talking about the adoption of social media tools in spying organizations, but a lot of points are apply to nonprofit adoption The need to focus on the challenges posed by your organizational culture even more than the technologies to make them work for you. ve had this ???need need to know??? culture for years,??? Meyerrose said. ???Well,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. Leaders also need to work at three levels of network: the personal, the organizational, and the ecosystem in which the organization lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ). Who is already working on this issue that you think others should support? 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

And a lot of hard work to make sure you create something that???s 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. A lot of questions to be asked. The first thing to keep in mind?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

." Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This "This month, we bring you some great examples of how non-profits are using wikis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 6, 2011

Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki. It’s a wiki, but everything is stored in files instead of a database. The annoying part is that it is one more wiki markup to learn (I wish SOMEONE would finally agree to make a wiki markup standard!!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 Screencasting Panel.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Do you do much of our work online? Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. Why Working In Distributed Teams Is Green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. Prizes will offered too!)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

I'm not sure software innovation will do anything about easing ego problems, but it has certainly eased the need to travel between Virginia and Philadelphia to work on a document together. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. He has a context for what may work and what may not.

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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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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 19, 2009

The good folks at Aspiration have been working to put my list of donor databases into a wiki. I'll announce the wiki list when it's ready. Along the way the identified some that seem to have disappeared and weren't on my earlier list of defunct donor databases. Donation Management System from Cumulus 9.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And the wiki is nice. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And the wiki is nice. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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