Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2008

Nick O'Neil found this video and used in a post called " Facebook for Grandparents." I set up my eighty-something Dad on Facebook - and his reaction "Cognitive Overload!" -- Although when I posted videos of his grandchildren on his profile, he emailed me saying he enjoyed the video. A question I'm often asked is " What are the demographics of social networking users ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. When a service goes down, users will complain. And if happens a lot, they may move on. There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

| View | Upload your own. I was invited to give a keynote at a gathering of 300 IT leaders and managers who work for a large healthcare nonprofit. To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mike Monteiro NTEN's We Are Media : where the community is the curriculum ! We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll we out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits. Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

But Why? Flickr Photo by Liquid Lucidity. Why Not? Flickr Photo by MPR529. Today we start NTEN's Be The Media journey where the community is the curriculum ! We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits. Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the medi

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

GEO magazine writer Marta Mainieri did an interview with me recently for the magazine. She just skyped me to let me know it's on newstands now (in Italy). Anyone speak or read Italian?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

Confession. Before I focused on music performance in college, I was on a path of creative writing and poetry. I took a course on French poetry and Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil was on the reading list. He is one of my favorite poets and one of my favorite poems is from that volume, it is called " To the Reader." Baudelaire famously ends that first poem in this volume by personally addressing. his readers in the creation of his poetry: "Hypocrite reader--my. likeness--my brother!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Flickr Photo by Dogs New Cloths. Allison Fine, who authored " Social Citizens" , a paper recently released by The Case Foundation on the intersection of Millennials, social change and social media, wonders whether it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service? In a piece that Allison Fine has just posted on the Social Citizens blog she points out a hidden cost to the explosion in the number of and interest in causes the past decade that can be summed up by one

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Click to see larger image. What you are looking at is a tag cloud created with Be The Media Project description and the highly addictive WRDL (hat tip to Tom Watson ). I think it perfectly illustrates how we will build the modules using swarm lists many people who may contribute small pieces of knowledge. So, is this a community or a network or something in between?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2008

I'm on vacation at a family reunion! I'll be back on 7/1. Like any email addict, I will feel compelled to read your messages when my family is not looking. However, I may not have time to respond before they take my phone away from me and force me to talk to humans. Face to face. For the WHOLE TRIP. If you need more immediate help, please give our office a call.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2008

Photo by Wally G. What's your best personal networking conversation starter at a networking event? Background. This week I am an online mentor on the topic of " Effective Online Networking " as part of the Networking for Success project at the the Women???s Technology Empowerment Centre. My opening post shared some ideas and tips. There were so many wonderful comments and blog posts that I've been able to summarize the wisdom in these three posts -- read them for context, if you're jus

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. on how different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. This compelling experiment in the wisdom of the crowds started off with an open call for works through the museum's various Web 2.0 networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2008

Jocelyn Harmon. Making a change in your life - whether moving, getting married, having kids, changing jobs, or whatever to follow your passion - is very exciting. And probably a little scary, but following your heart is always the right thing to do. I just got an email from Jocelyn Harmon telling us: "I'm writing to let you know that I'm leaving NPower Greater DC Region at the end of this week to pursue my bliss ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

Oreoluwa Somolu I've known Oreoluwa Somolu virtually for several years. I came across Ore's writing via Sokari Ekine's fantastic bridge blogging of the African blogosphere on Global Voices. I was a mentor on Ore's Blog Mentoring Project in Africa as Joitske Hulsebosch also writes about. I also had a chance to work with Ore through Nancy White and KM4DEV Technology Stewardship issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Beth. You all know that I'm a dog lover , right? That's Sadie who passed away 5 years ago this month. She has her own dogbook profile on Facebook! Anyway, if I still had a dog it would be at my feet tomorrow in my office. Here's the scoop: First celebrated in 1999, Take Your Dog To Work Day was created to celebrate the great companions dogs make and to encourage their adoption from humane societies, animal shelters and breed rescue clubs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

Nancy Schwartz wants you to help her select the winners of the 2008 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards, to be announced in July. The tagline finalists you see here have been carefully culled from the more than 1,050 taglines submitted to Getting Attention Tagline Awards. Hurry, the voting closing on Friday, June 20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

| View | Upload your own. About a year ago, I did a lot of research on a screencast about widgets for nonprofits and put together two wikis - Nonprofit Widgets (for a session at 2007 NTC Conference) and Fundraising Widget. So, I was really interested in hearing what colleague Peter Deitz has to say in his recent NTEN Webinar on the Sprout Widget. Alas, travel schedule prevented me from hearing it live, but Peter posted his slides and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

Since May 1 (eerily, 3 days before Cyclone Nargis), Fanista launched a campaign called Burma: It Can't Wait with the US Campaign for Burma and the Human Rights Action Center. The site has featured provocative short films starring actors, filmmakers and musicians on the topic of human rights and Burma. On June 19th, Aung San Suu Kyi???s 63rd birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

How To Download YouTube Videos. VideoJug - Life Explained on Film is an excellent site for instructional videos and screencasts on a wide range of topics, including some fantastic how-to content for social networks and other tools. The example above is one that plucked from the socialnetworking tagged videos. This site is going to be an excellent resource for hunting and gathering of resources as part of the BeTheMedia project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

AppAfrica is series of international technology conferences and forums for software developers, entrepreneurs, ngo???s and others interested in discussing how web technologies can benefit developing nations. Whether this be strengthening economies by participating in the world marketplace or innovating operations as they currently exist. The first event will be held July 31 at Makerere University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2008

Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Last year, I was in a room at the BlogHer Conference where there was a discussion about how we might focus BlogHers Act Campaign on maternal health. There were many different ideas expressed. After about 45 minutes of discussion, I remember Liza Sabater made a few point, telling a story first that helped bring everyone to agreement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference. All live blogging disclaimers apply. Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Paul Baker, Webitects; Kara Carell, 501 Tech Club Chicago/Interfaith Youth Core; Todd McMeen, CitizenPowered.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Photo by PeppySis. Epeus's Engine has a post titled " How Not To Be Viral " which is talking about social applications spread on social networks. The term "viral" is now more like cancer - given application fatique. The post provides an overview of the alternative reproductive strategies to being a virus based on nature metaphors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). It is also the title of a report " Working Wikily: How Networks Are Changing Social Change " a paper Gabriel Kasper and Diana Scearce of the Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The Meyer Memorial Trust is launching Connectpedia today at 2:00 PM PST - darn, I'll be in an airplane headed to Chicago. Here's the description: What if there was a place where we could all exchange what we learn as we go about our daily business? What if nonprofits could see the data and information that foundations use in their due diligence process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

NASA is using Twitter to quickly get updates to the public. They have gotten over 18,000 Twitter users to follow their MarsPhoenix account in just a matter of weeks and have sent 200 messages. They aren't just posting updates to some unmanned microblog. They are also replying to individual statements made by the followers. They have generated a lot of PR by doing this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2008

The following works best on full screen view and with the volume turned up LOUD! Video by Tony Hirst Full context from Stephen Downes, who I hope, continues to report on the EduPunk meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Thanks to Jonathan Colman, we have a NpTech Room on FriendFeed - which is essentially a way for a group of people to share their feeds with one another. (Need to catch up on what the heck FriendFeed is? See my primer.). Jonathan set this up on Sunday night and within 24 hours we have 27 nonprofit technology techies in there - quite the conversation cafe at the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2008

Beth's Flickr Stream. Jonathon Colman set up a FriendFeed Room for NpTech and I designed a quick experiment in sharing resources via FriendFeed about FriendFeed. If you want to participate, here's how. More than 40 folks have joined so far. The above screenshot is one of the conversation threads that is happening in the NpTech Room about FriendFeed (there are some other conversations happening related to other resources being shared -I'll roundup at the end of the week.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Source: Skelliewag. A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. (Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Let the backlash begin. I've seen it before and it here it comes again. Twitter is having stress issues. Learn more from this interview by Jesse Stay. What will the alternative to twitter Be? Maybe it???s Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or perhaps Pownce, maybe its BrightKite, or FriendFeed, Tumblr, or any other number of alternatives. Oh yeah. it's not about the tools, it is about strategy and outcomes. but once those are in place, you have to explore the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

| View | Upload your own. Britt Bravo took some notes here (thanks Britt!). WiredPR Works did an awesome job of notes too (thanks Barbara!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

How To Give And Receive Compliments. Last week when I was in Chicago, I had dinner with Liz Strauss. She gave me a compliment and I started to do my usual (get embarrassed, deflect it). She gave me some great advice, the best way to receive a compliment is to smile and say thank you. I'm taking that to heart, Liz and trying to learn how to do that. This morning while browsing the social media how-to videos over at video jug , I stumbled onto the one above that covers giving and receiving complim

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

Screencapture by Beth Kanter Source Morgan Stanley Internet Report. Yes, email is still electric and by showing this statistic I'm not saying to dump your email newsletters. But you should be testing social media where it makes sense for your donors and prospects, particularly younger ones or " social citizens." But don't take my word for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

Photo by Natala007. While stuck in O'Hare on Saturday, I wrote a post about personal productivity as related to " email overload " and rounded up some tips. (Written while being stranded at O'Hare airport due to flight cancellations does not always allow neurons to connect.) After posting it, I remembered the phrase - "Social Productivity" that I read in one of the final chapters of " Connect: A Guide To the New Way of Working on the Web " by Anne Zelenka.

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