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.

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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. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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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. So, I've set up a google form on the WeAreMedia Wiki where you can add your name to the list and see the whole list. Yes, there is!

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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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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. Tags: Donor Databases. 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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2010

Here’s the OxfordJam wiki. Tags: events oxfordjam oxjam socialmedia. I’ll be there all day Friday helping with the social media sessions. Really hope to see you there! Follow along! Follow @OxfordJam on Twitter. Or follow #oxfordjam.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Once I posted the list I started getting requests to add links to vendor websites, tags, and comments. Now the good folks at Aspiration have taken my list and put it into the Social Source Commons wiki. Tags: TechSoup.

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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. Tags: Event Online Seminar Web 2.0 Space is limited so RSVP today !

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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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NCE Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

This slideshare presentation is from her social media wiki and discusses the importance of knowing what people are saying about your agency on social media sites. Tags: Marketing and Awareness Tools beth social media slideshare kanter. Without a doubt, one of my favorite social media and nonprofit writers is Beth Kanter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. Tags: Mobile Marketing Social Media. is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. The donation process is not interactive or public. You donate and then receive a “Thank You” email. It’s one-way communication. How about you?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. Tags: CRM Mobile Nonprofit Tech Open Source Open Standards civicrm nptech opensource. I’ve been a very long time cell phone user (had one since 1998), but I haven’t been involved in implementing a mobile system for an organization, so I had a lot to learn.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Check out the Project Spaces wiki. Tags: collaboration events format innovation projectspaces socialbysocial. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2009

The idea is to have stories about people in the past, and the connections between people, with a wiki approach with some extra structure. Tags: people Emmet. I saw a neat demonstration at TED, when I got the chance to meet Janice Fraser of Emmet Labs. The focus is on pre-1970, so we have lots of kings and queens featured. Don't steal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. I stumbled upon the term "pivot browsing" while researching a workshop I gave about tagging. So, for this week's NpTech Tag Summary, I'm aggregating a few of the best ones. Bottom-Up Tagging. Google: The Search Engine Industry.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Tags: Education and Training Tools # facebook hashtag search twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. Tags: Conferences. There will be a formal Twitter chat at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT featuring questions from @ntenhross and @ikepigott.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. A new form of work advoidance.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

Visit the event Wiki for links to documentation, attendees bios, and links to the applications created after the weekend. Tags: challenge events api hackdays london. What we hope to get from the weekend. Learn more or register today !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?" " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. As sessions happen people volunteer to document the outcomes on a wiki (The notes of what was said is even better). Tags: events 2.0 information you want to share/present. a project you would like help on. What happens During Sessions? *. End of the Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki. Tags: Engagement Influencers Listening Measurement. I’d like to update my listening/engaging tools list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. I'm also tagging Amy Sample Ward , Nina Simon , Britt Bravo and Allison Fine who can point us to some of their posts on this topic or even share some current thoughts. Tags: wearemedia. I'm really curious what you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning. Tags: issues socialmedia webtools community community building free gardeningbook ning platforms tools. Yes, although grou.ps can be a little clunkier. The added advantage of grou.ps What was the work load like to switch? What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. Tags: roundup bookmarks. - Beth has a terrific post up for anyone who is confused by all the references to “hashtags&# on Twitter or wants to learn more about using them effectively.

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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. Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Tags: roundup adoption bookmarks casestudies climatechange cop15 facebook fundraising global green list politics postalicious resources socialmedia strategy women womenwhotech youth. " This is a great case study for anyone looking for support in those hard buy-in conversations… George Weiner: Will You Marry Me? Do join in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

And the best part - We'll choose three case studies to be featured at our SXSWi session and, of course, add the information to the WeAreMedia Wiki. Tags: crowdsourcing sxsw. We want to know about it. Submit your case study here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

If you want to suggest ideas or features for the Facebook application, you can visit the Creative Commons wiki. Tags: reports webtools applications creativecommons facebook license. What do you think? Will you use the application? How did you select which license you wanted to use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." The Digital Natives Wiki illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on digital natives from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and other partners. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. It's always a delight check out what people have added to the Wiki. Tags: wearemedia. The above presentation is a remix of a remix of a remix. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

For example, you can browse Facebook profiles at once. This was so useful, I added it to my Social Media and Foundations wiki. Tags: Research Studies. What I really like is that you can compare different social channels across foundations pretty easily.

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