Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

Photo by Kalabird (Michaela Hackner). Johanna Bates, an extraordinary nonprofit technologist, has launched her blog with a very thoughtful post called " Walking the Line Between Web 2.0 and Old Skool in Nonprofits " This adds beautifully to the conversation over at NTEN Wiki (name coming soon). A number of insightful comments have led to the creation of How Can Your Organization Avoid Drinking the Web 2.0 Kool Aid?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Photo by Christopher Dale. A text to give campaign will make its major league debut at a professional sporting event on the July 13th ??? Children???s National Day at Nationals Park. This a special day will highlight and support the partnership between the Washington Nationals and Children???s National Medical Center to fight pediatric diabetes. (The Washington Nationals Dream Foundation has given $2 million toward the creation of a new $5 million diabetes care complex at Children???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

Photo by Travelin' Librarian. On Monday, we started down the road to build Module 1: What is Social Media and Why It is Important To Nonprofits. If you have kids and have ever taken a long road trip, you've heard that question. Sometimes a long trip feels like you'll never get there, but little by little you do. So, my response to the question is HOOOHAA - meaning yes -we're almost there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

What does the Internet look like ? Liz Strauss asks if crayons qualify as social media. It made remember the workshops I taught way back in 1993 for arts people about Internet literacy - the web was just getting started. I handed them crayons and paper and asked them to draw a picture of the Internet and then share with someone else. Here's some of the drawing from the thousands that I had in my collection (scanned the best ones).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. It seems the lawyers affiliated with an about to be published book aren't too thrilled about our title.

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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

JULY 1, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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