Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This email group is intended as a conversation space to supplement and support the Global Scale Wiki. We recognize that some times it’s easier to share a link, talk about a concept, or participate in a discussion before jumping into a shared learning space like a wiki. Global Scale Wiki. December Roundtable.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

That’s where the impetus came from to set up the Global Scale wiki and google group – they were to serve as that place, that meeting ground, where we could find others, talk about our work, and start building up a repository of information and resources. Where do I fit? And we hope you’ll help us! What names would you suggest?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2010

In other words, Community Pages become a whole lot like a wiki once they reach a certain threshold. Admins for Pages have complete control over their Page, while when the Community Page reaches a certain number of supporters, the “ administration will be handed over to the Facebook community.

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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Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki.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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. And the wiki is nice. We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. And the wiki is nice. We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

We Are Media : this wiki is another excellent source of information and examples of social media for social impact compiled by the nonprofit technology community. How-to Create a Social Media Strategy : Keep talking: I’d love to continue the conversation with those that were there today, and everyone else.

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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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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 23, 2009

To make finding this info easier, I started building wiki pages for documenting how we at C3 do what we do. You usually only need Pro if you are going to be exporting full manuals or uploading to a MindTouch or Confluence wiki. Part of my job is helping my colleagues do what they need to do on their computers and online. Took forever.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Community Blogs. Simple brochureware websites. Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 26, 2009

The good folks at Asipration have taken my list of donor databases and put it into the Social Source Commons wiki. What's more, they added descriptions, logos, and links to the vendors' sites. You can go directly to the list at [link] or preview it below:

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Build your online homebase with a wiki, a website (like WordPress.com or Google Sites ), or a blog (like Tumblr or Posterous ). This level of personal connection inspires sharing and participation by those on the ground, and those following remotely. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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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. DonorAccess from DonorAccess.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Web 2.0 = Blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. 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. At its core, Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. It works for multiple projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2010

Here’s the OxfordJam wiki. And they’re hoping to have some great minds there as the fringe event to Skoll. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. 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. Also, check out the twitter stream for the #omc09 hashtag.

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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. Without a doubt, one of my favorite social media and nonprofit writers is Beth Kanter. I’ve written about her work before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– 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. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Check out the Project Spaces wiki. The documentation explores Project Spaces conceptually as well as provides examples of how to hold a Project Spaces event. And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model.

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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. There will be a formal Twitter chat at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT featuring questions from @ntenhross and @ikepigott. Feel free to join!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Conference wiki: [link]. Description : The TSG Contributors’ Summit is a chance for the partner organizations, funders, sponsors and community leaders to come together to discuss new ideas, new opportunities, and new ways of leveraging technology for social impact. I’ll be speaking, facilitating and assisting with the event.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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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?"

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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). All are welcome to put forward presentations or propose conversations that you would like to have with others and: questions you want answered.

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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. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They put information about their program, things they have learned and resources they like out on the wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki. The idea was that why keep this goldmine of learning locked up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The photo above is of Rob Stuart in 1997 at a meeting in Montana to create a plan at what eventually became NTEN – thoughtfully documented in photos by Gavin Clabaugh and included in the nptech history wiki. Rob, you will be missed. Thank you for leadership and inspiration in the early days.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

We are now putting that experience to work with Click for a Cause to help struggling non-profits to engage and energize their communities in order to increase participation and ignite fundraising efforts during this difficult economic time."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

I noticed that Jenny Ambrozek , someone who thinks deeply about networks in a business context, re-tweeted one of my musings on network leadership skill sets. She pointed me to her fabulous deck and wiki on the topic. Going through her wiki connected me back to the thought leaders in this area, like Patti Anklam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When I'm ready to build materials, I start with me setting up a workshop wiki It becomes a hub for all electronic materials. The advantage of having all this detailed information on a wiki is two-fold. For face-to-face workshops, I try print only what is necessary and give people the URL of wiki if they want to go deeper.

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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. Yes, although grou.ps can be a little clunkier. For example, I find that changes that I make don’t appear straight away which is a little frustrating. The added advantage of grou.ps What was the work load like to switch?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. There have been a number of possible “Exchange Killers.&# Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $. Perhaps it’s the one?

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