NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

As part of this, we’re looking to re-vamp our Social Network Strategy. As the NTEN community, you ARE the “social” in our Social Network Strategy, which is why we’ve decided to turn to you for feedback and input. As mentioned before, NTEN would not have a social network strategy without a social network.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Our clients are planning, designing, and launching online professional networks of all shapes and sizes to reach, engage, and inform external stakeholders. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. SocialText.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Our clients are planning, designing, and launching online professional networks of all shapes and sizes to reach, engage, and inform external stakeholders. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. SocialText.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2010

In just a few weeks, I'm heading to Colorado to chat with a group of nonprofits about using social media in their work -- but not in Denver. In partnership with one local "Tweetup" group, the Food Bank held a social available only to their social media followers. Reinforcements!

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Nimble AMS

MAY 19, 2021

It’s an ideal way to elevate and encourage networking among your association’s members. At the same time, it can make your association a part of your members’ daily social networking habits. Anytime, anywhere access – Members can contribute and collaborate in the association’s online community using any compatible device.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

In order to be successful in effectively addressing social ills, nonprofit organizations must learn to utilize a network strategy of collaboration amongst diverse stakeholders to create true social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Limited access to networks Limited access to networks and social capital can make it difficult for individuals to connect with others who can help them advance in their careers and succeed in their endeavors. Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. This works best if you have small network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Networked NGOs and Social Media Integrated Into Organizational Communications.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Fortunately, research is weighing in with some great information that gives us insight into our social donors and potentials. With a new concept called Social Scoring, we now have a way to indentify and categorize the social media constituents in our databases by their reach or influence across their networks.

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. Collaboration and resource-sharing between organizations around the globe is an important need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 13, 2021

Offering an online community is a great way to elevate and encourage networking among your association’s members. It can also make your association a part of your members’ daily social networking habits. Nimble AMS is association management software (AMS) that includes online community functionality called Nimble Communities.

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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. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era (LNE).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

Others see it as specifically applying to online community spaces, like a social networking site. It is, though, meant to paint a picture: The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally. I believe that community exists everywhere, really.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

In this case, for this conversation, co-creation is used generally to touch on issues of access and engagement, and collaboration. Co-creation is, like many other things, a word rising in standing on the buzzword list. On & Offline Engagement. Online is great for organizing. The key is making the connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

As part of my research at the Packard Foundation, I've had the opportunity to attend a lot of briefings and discussions related to social media and network effectiveness. WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised over $10M in one day by Jeff Achen of GiveMN.org. “Do Do what you do best and network the rest.”. That’s simple, but wise advice from the definitive nonprofit social media strategy manual, “ The Networked Nonprofit.” Leveraging our network. We have a lot of work left to do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. 1) Drupal Organic Groups: Organic Groups is a module of Drupal, which allows for discussions, wikis and the like. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Take advantage of that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The more exciting models have evolved past the traditional lecture-style instructional styles and incorporate peer learning, self-directed learning, and collaboration. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

These are my links for December 14th through January 2nd: 5 TED Talks on Collaboration and Communities | Social Media Trader - I am a huge fan of the TED talks and enjoy taking a break now and then to watch one just for a bit of passion and motivation. Here are five talks on collaboration. The First Annual A. Nominate it!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. What do you think? Great slides.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2011

Jeska's presentation, "Engaging Community Collaboration: Three Things Community Managers Can Do to Help Communities be Heard," provided straightforward and practical advice on community management. The presentation addressed how to encourage and manage community collaboration by keeping the following three recommendations in mind: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. This includes social good movements like #metoo, #marchforourlives, #icebucketchallenge #givingtuesday and others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Skills around technology, creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. Their website, freshBrain.org , provides a social networking based platform where teens can innovate, create and share using a variety of technologies. I'm looking forward to tracking their progress!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Emergence in networked learning comes signaling to your networks – hey learning is taking place over here – come engage.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

We recognize NTEN’s 501 Tech Clubs (local in-person groups) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) (online affinity groups) organizers are one clever and innovative bunch! We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

In analog communication, individuals generally reach what is called the Dunbar Number , a limit of about 150 stable social connections. An in-house expert will be better able to collaborate with other organizational entities, have a better understanding of the mission and challenges, and have the patience to iterate on the AI implementations.

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