Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

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. These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. These are conversations that you want to have behind the firewall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. from Matt Goddard If you are new to social media, in terms of the tools and technology or how to integrate them into your product release strategy, consider the following activities. By using some of the tools that come with a del.icio.us Rinse, repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. The task, to pick the tools for a particular situation, was just not right in this context. tools and ideas. tools, this would have worked as a culminating activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

But, how can you choose the right tools and design your onspace if you haven't experienced those tools. The diagnostic tool includes 8 different areas: membership, leadership, governance, purpose, strategy/structure, assessment, communications/technology, and resource management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

As an activist and evangelist for Creative Commons' values and tools, I want to do my part in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. You can also remix other projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Learn how to center your social media practice and balance your online activities. Submitted by Jacob Colker. Come to this session and find out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. I left this session with some new insights about the networks and social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. The skill set: Play ??? Performance ???

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

and yet many museum professionals look benevolently upon that activity as a positive meaning-making visitor experience. Sketching takes up more space and is more distracting than photo-taking (and pencils could be used to damage objects!), This is prejudicial treatment. There are two parts to this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I don't know if this possible - I have to find the right.swf to.avi converter and test it - but you could possibly edit and remix these clips into a screencast. SpeedGranting is a tool for the Facebook community to help spread the good by getting funding for worthy projects. Also, I'm a visual learner. I am number 28!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic! I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This made think about focusing less on the tools, but more on the implications for nonprofits. This post describes several projects that represent the future of technology and education because they meld tools and needs. Note that MAJOR impact is not to be confused with activities that get attention or build lists.

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MARCH 11, 2010

And for anyone attending the event and looking for some insight into how to get in on the philanthropic and social advocacy action, here are some of my recommendations on sessions, events and activities that have gold stars next to them on my personal event agenda. But it wasn't here to enterain, no. Karaoke came to unite us in song.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. bleeding edge tool, twitter. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Also announced 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is no better way to structure your thinking that the POST which stands for People, Objective, Strategy, and Tools. For example, the Giving Tuesday Toolkit offers some excellent curriculum to involve kids in Giving Day activities. 5: Activate a group of champions to tap into their networks and share the buzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I shared the framework on this wiki – and encouraged other nonprofit capacity builders to remix it. I was thrilled to see this version (although not a nonprofit specific version) for content marketing from a report by Altimeter. Techniques and Tools. Here’s how they applied to content marketing: 1.

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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. What social media tools are they currently using?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. The market is changing rapidly and there have been a lot more personal campaigns and activity. Social Networking Tool or Service. I'm so excited!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Tuesday When on Tuesday morning I found the sessions “Museums Remixed Part One: Creating Visitor-Authored Experiences” and “Museums Remixed Part Two: Can we allow users to become participants?” The Museum Remixed panelists presented projects and concepts that invited visitors to participate in interpreting collections.

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