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Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day

Amy Sample Ward

Google Analytics for Wikispaces. Networked Nonprofit. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. List of Social Media Management Systems. DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Crowdsourcing vs Community Sourcing. Slacktivism: Turning a Like into Social Change.

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Mindful or Mind Full Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Balance in Hyperconnected World. The Information Diet. 18 Minutes A Day. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

" 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 These opportunities are typically open to all sorts of social entrepreneurs as well. Download the December 2009 version of this list here.

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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Balance in Hyperconnected World. The Information Diet. 18 Minutes A Day. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. The session notes can be found here. Expect a follow up post from me next week about what I learned to improve my visual note-taking technique. Mindfulness'

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Connecting with Your Community

Tech Soup Blog

With a mix of donated tools like Wikispaces and free services like Facebook, your organization has more readily accessible channels to get its message out, boost its fundraising and help recruit volunteers. For a great example of a Wikispaces wiki used for social media action, check out We Are Media.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup Blog

Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. Wikispaces is a wiki-hosting service that allows you to create a collaborative website that is easy to setup and use. Wikispaces is a wiki-hosting service that allows you to create a collaborative website that is easy to setup and use.

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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips. They are asking for feedback on what is missing, suggestions for categories, and other ways to improve the tool. I would love to see a clickable version.

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Virtual World Tour 2008

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To learn more about virtual worlds in education, check out the Horizon Project Wikispace. One thing I learned is that WhyVille is a virtual world that will run on low bandwidth (dial-up) and lower end computers.

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Vote With Your Purse 2.0: Women's Online Giving, Offline Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a section on how to use Sprout and Chipin in for fundraising -- so I'll take this opportunity to mention my ChipIn Case Study about sending a young woman to college and my personal fundraising wikispace.

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What the Heck is A Technology Steward?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This entry linked to Wikispaces page (Technology Steward) Nancy White is presenting this slide show tommorrow at Ignite Seattle! I can't wait for the reflections. Good luck Nancy!

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Watch this Webinar About Wikis

Tech Soup Blog

We had Sarah Cove from Wikispaces explain what wikis are, how they work, and describe the benefits that organizations discover when they use them. 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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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. You have to register for wikispaces in order to add yourself.

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A Wiki for Your Facebook Profile?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I'd like to see is a Facebook app for wikispaces so I can integrate my workshop wikis. I just installed a wiki application on my Facebook profile called Wikimono. I'm sure more will follow or they may already be there. Anyway, I'm using the wiki to collect and organize research on social media metrics for a workshop next week.

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NTC08: Social Media ROI Case Study Slam

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm beginning to post the slides and detailed notes from the session at NTC08 here on my blog and on my Social Media Metrics Wikispace. | View | Upload your own. The introduction set the ground rules and offer these overview points to the what and why of social media ROI. What do we mean by metrics, measurement, and ROI?

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Learning In Public On Wikis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past five years, I have created many wikis to support online learning projects and wikispaces has been one of my platforms of choice because it is easy to use, free, and integrate other social media content. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Wiki: Compare them All

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. This is a cool site. It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. Great model! Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging - article on TechSoup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're just discovering my blog or tagging for nonprofits via this post, check out my Nonprofit Tagging Wikispace. UPDATE: I've published a resource on tagging and nonprofits.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup Blog

An online collaborative space like wikispaces? But, the phrase is important, because talking about the best ways to support and involve volunteers using Internet tools, specifically, is important. If you have a favorite networking tool for working with volunteers, we would love to hear about it? Is it Facebook?

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup Blog

Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. While you might not aspire to build the next Wikipedia, building a wiki is something anyone who has the willingness can do. Organizing a wiki team is much like organizing a volunteer or work team.

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Web Design Resources from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup Blog

The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. These articles and products can help you build your website from the ground up as well as inspire enhancements or new features on an existing site.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming. The geeks out there will appreciate the array of Web2.0

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

Tech Soup Blog

on Wikispaces. Check out the TweetChat on July 11 for a quick introduction on how it translates to nonprofit and library work. Additional TechSoup Resources. NTC 2011 TechSoup virtual teams presentation. on Slideshare. Susan Tenby's NTC presentation notes. of Susan Tenby and Jessica Dally on TechSoup how is a distributed organization.

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A Nonprofit Version of Widget Box?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment.

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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. I've been fooling around with alternative ways for share presentations over the web. I generally like to have visuals, a place for my script, and links. I like having a leave behind.

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Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: The ROI Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I imagine the adoption issues are similar to moving to intranet, wikispace, or basecamp to manage team or internal communications. Certainly the time suck and drain of too much email can be a lever for change to adopt alternatives, such as an internal blog or intrablog. How much do you have to guide the change? More thoughts here.

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t mess with their stuff, and 2) about the need for some control over my own work. Wow, no wonder it???s s hard to convince others of trying to let go of ???old old ways???

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A Social Media Measurement Nonprofit Guinea Pig: Thanks Tim! Please add your thoughts!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). I still read listservs because that's the only place I can find a particular people/peers sharing information about a particular topic. And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed.

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. I even planned an NTC panel on one ) There are already a few good resources already planted on the wiki, including a Best Practices wiki by my colleague Andy Roberts. (I

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Renewing Your Products and Services

Tech Soup Blog

Wikispaces. Symantec Norton 360. Symantec Enterprise Products ( Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition , Protection Suite Small Business Edition , Endpoint Protection , and Mail Security ). Yearly Renewals through TechSoup With Special Conditions.

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

Using Wikispaces, we created the Technology Leadership Initiative (TLI) wiki, and invited all stakeholders to be members, including project directors, IT staff, technical assistance providers, and members of the US Deptartment of Education -- a total of 50 members.

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Tagged Again. Media Consumption.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. Browser: I use firefox unless I'm forced to use explorer because of a work contract. Bookmarks: del.icio.us and magnolia. I use onlywire bookmarklet to be able to multi-task.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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Your Help Needed to Steer the Museum 2.0 Live Archive

Museum 2.0

After asking around, I considered four free-ish options for the wiki: pbwiki , wikispaces , Google sites , and wik.is. I eliminated wikispaces because you have to pay to be ad-free (though it looks and functions very well). And for those of you who are interested in how I created this archive site, here's the process I went through.

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With wikispaces, it is important to use the overall site monitoring features so you know when people make contributions. " I put her advice to use a few times already, and it is an important lesson. What are your thoughts on encouraging community responsibility and ownership in working wikily?

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

yes, pbwiki, wikispaces, and wetpaint have free versions). ( [link] ). Can we get the full site for the twitter statistics? (Yes Yes check here ). Can you add audio with slideshare? ( Are the three wiki tools listed free? For webinars - do you have a favorite webinar tool? (I I use what the host uses.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years, including virtual worlds.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's been a busy spring! You've really been a huge help.

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup Blog

It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. Of course libraries are all about education in its various forms. There are now a dizzying array of online resources in this area. But what's good, effective, and also entertaining for kids?

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