Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. It lets you bookmark to multiple sites with one click. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting. Since its a wiki and frequently updated it won't be obsolete like a book! If you have any feedback for Tamar about the book, she is collecting it on her blog: [link].

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. Commenting. You can still participate and you might even win a cool t-shirt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. And usually doesn't include the best Facebook links which are shared on my Facebook Fan Page ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

I decided to use the Ethan Zuckerman advice of point don't write -- and pointed to some excellent screencasts and videos about social bookmarking. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

" We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. " "How does it differ from others?"

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Doing Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

Dina has also shared a link to a wiki Nargis Help. Blog, tweet, re-tweet, podast, email, speak about and share/bookmark links to things you read that move you, and encourage others to do the same and think creatively about the problems. The Burma: It Can't Wait Campaign launched not too long ago by the U.S. Do you have a podcast?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Blogging, Social Bookmarking, Expertise Matching, and MySpace Looks like Marnie Webb is using Ma.gnolia.com for her linkblog Britt Bravo launched the " Basic Blogging for Women " blog filled with pointers and summaries of advice to get started.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. For more information on content curation, consider the following resources: Beth Kanter's wiki on Content Curation. You may already be using content curation tools if you visit the web on a regular basis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

blogs, podcasts, vlogs, wikis, news aggregation, social networking, social bookmarking) for marketing. I have some examples that I often use, but would love to hear some of your favorite examples of nonprofits, NGOs and green businesses that are using the social web (i.e. Thanks for your help!

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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. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Add the bookmarklet so you can easily save bookmarks into delicious. Openness - ????A

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools. The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. The tools used will include (but not limited to) a combination of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Dan points over to the Measurment Camp Wiki that I need to explore further. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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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. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Nonprofit Tech Blog points us to the Nonprofit Success Guide wiki.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. What on earth is a Wiki? The Impact of Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

programming techniques, tagging and social bookmarking, blogging and they need to be looked at separately. " I think collaborative tools like Wikis or Writely are worth exploring. Wikis or Writely can certainly be more efficient. For organizations that are ready, I am eager to help them explore these tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Social Bookmarking. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

Bookmarks: del.icio.us Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. I've wanted to change to gmail, but need a slow period. I live at the post office. Browser: I use firefox unless I'm forced to use explorer because of a work contract. and magnolia. I use onlywire bookmarklet to be able to multi-task.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

One of the things NetSquared is looking for is folks to research and write up profiles of nonprofits who are successfully using emerging technology like: blogging podcasting social bookmarking social networking tagging wikis RSS feeds SMS/cellphones aggregation to further their missions (if you are unfamiliar with any of the above categories, you can (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Check the top of the WeAreMedia wiki for places where we need some specific help. We've narrowed down the categories to the ones that many nonprofits are already using and organized them so they relate to key themes of the Tactical Track. you work in. Tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. An internal, shared group wiki will allow you to explore different topics (i.e. Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. A good wiki can easily become the homebase for creative group work. I like Wik.is

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Tracking Change Wiki : Provides a platform to get involved in the policymaking process. Whitehouse Wiki : To track all changes made to whitehouse.gov Budget Wiki : To increase the transparency and accountability of the political process. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

For special purpose collaborations, a wiki might be most appropriate. Distill your notes, scribbles, and bookmarks into entries in your topic list. For your blog , one of the well known blogging applications should suffice: Blogger, Typepad, and so on. I'd love to see someone write a comparison of these blogging tools.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. The bookmarks are here. I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. mobile posting. Click to Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. I've aggregated a lot of these and other resources on the topic on my wiki portfolio. This group of widgets allows you to take content from one site or location on the web and easily republish it elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

One piece we did not use that we could have gotten some leverage- Pathable can add a mini WetPaint wiki to each session listed in the calendar, so we could have asked people to share notes, links there. Another related tool we found is lo.calize.us This concept did not exactly pan out, but there is only so much you can throw at a crowd.

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