NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Effective Online Communications can help you better engage current stakeholders, raise money, and attract new prospects. In order to maker sure your content matches your stakeholders interests, you must track activity and make changes based on that data. In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news.

Communication 57

Communication Online DC Wiki 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory?

Adopt 50

Adopt Social Media Challenge Media 50

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users.

Tools 100

Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Spore was released in September of 2008 to huge sales expectations. These creatures can be registered on a wiki , and there are easy tools to upload videos directly to YouTube from the game of your creature taking its first steps and yawlps. Last week, Wright spoke at the Web 2.0

Game 20

Game University Create Wiki 20

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. They were active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends.

Social Media 34

Social Media Tools Online Communication 34

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

Wiki 23

Wiki Wikipedia Museum Conference 23

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. I wrote the plans, outlines, and multiple drafts on a public wiki that was available for review, edits, and comments. Content review (solicited). Copy editing. Marketing copy.

Participatory 21

Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

Social Media 106

Social Media Map Strategy Media 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. twitter-summary.xls.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Attendees learned how to work with specific data sets (FEC), track congressional activites using GovTrack.org , and keep tabs on state legislatures through projects like Knowledge As Power , which enables citizens of Washington State to track that activities of their state legislature. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

Government 31

Government Social Media Open Advocacy 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

I spoke about creating a culture of authentic generosity in your network, Stacey Monk talked about her organization, Epic Change, and Tweetsgiving Campaign, and David Armano talked about how social media is strengthening weak ties and how he leveraged his network to help a woman named Daniella.

Social Media 68

Social Media Charity System Change 68