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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear.

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The Art of Aligning Social Media Strategy With Communications Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different. This causes a lot of anxiety.

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The Interpretive Dance of Social Media Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past five years, I've been focusing on social media. In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 or social media was all about. In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last fall, we marched all 350 or so Environmental Defense Fund staff through two days of a social media challenge.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next exercise was to focus on media choices. Although social media was the focus of the how-to trainings that are part of the trainer the trainers, this exercise was intended to help NGOs think through their media choices. Mary’s remix simplified the tool selection to what was being taught during the TOT.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. Here's a few (good) examples of how I have remixed other people's work or other people have remixed my work. Remix This Powerpoint. The presentation itself is a remix of a remix. to Change The World.

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3 Years of Social Media Conversations Online Will Lead To Face-to-Face Meeting With CogDog Blog's Alan Levine at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. This is an example of the types of ongoing, online conversations I've been having with CogDog blog's Alan Levine over the past three years. His blog was one of the first I discovered and have been hooked ever since. And he loves dogs).