Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I've done a number of presentations and workshops for arts organizations over the years and have even created a wiki " Social Media for Arts People " with stories, links, and other resources, but haven't spoken to arts organizations recently. A big topic of discussion was influencer strategies. It's not all about numbers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. Got social media tips or advice?

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MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. The second installment of the weekly TweetChat series offered some useful advice on nonprofit Twitter use, a tool that can be difficult to understand for many nonprofit leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

During the fall, the WeAreMedia project is discussing the content in the tactical modules. on the wiki. Each module discussing ideas and content that will progressively take more time to implement. This week we've had a lively discussion about Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. Advice to nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

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. replace "Be the Media" on the text in the wiki. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. re-do the screencasts on the wiki. NpTech Social Media Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. Got social media tips or advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. My advice is to find one or two blogs that you really find useful and then gradually add blogs that are referenced by that blog and that you find enjoyable. Of course, I have crazy ideas about a zagats guide to nonprofit blogs, a collaborative effort built on a wiki or elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

" The advice I usually give is to start small with experiments, proof of concepts. A lot of what was discussed at NDN about how political campaigns are changing from top down to bottom. It is really difficult to change the culture, get past the resistance. How do you start?" But it is more than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. EDF has put together a Twitter Guide to the Climate Bill Discussion. Another example is their use in a policy debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Then, I asked people to report out the burning questions and add them to the wiki page set up for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

NpTech Blogging, Tagging, and Wikis An excellent presentation on social media and nonprofits by Jocelyn Harmon and Qui Diaz is being discussed by Dave B. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! An article on the NPTimes that offers some good advice about online fundraising using circus metaphors via link from AFP Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. " My Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

Once or twice a month I get an email from an aspiring activist, social entrepreneur, or nonprofit professional who has just moved to the Bay Area and wants to set up a phone call to discuss the Bay Area's, "social change scene." nonprofit social entrepreneur career advice I usually agree to the calls. Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 tools, a couple of good mini-case studies, (the one about the Nitrogen Wiki ) and a focused list of references from the philanthropy world. I'm still wading my way through it. Leverage the great work of others. Go slowly and build on successes.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits. 3) How to Go Viral Eddie Kurtz, the communications associate at Brave New Films , discussed how to make video go viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

and contributed it to the WeAreMedia Wiki. What isn't being discussed or described, except in self-organized pockets of the social web is the overlap between communities and networks. A few months ago, I came up with a somewhat arbitrary framework to answer the age-old question, " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you've created a descriptive drawing. . Connections also be strong or loose. Click to see larger diagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. Can you give me an example of some advice you've given some nonprofits? Any advice to me on how to improve my blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree ! generators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

" asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. Later, I used it to summarize the wisdom that came out of the community discussion related to how artists and arts organizations can use the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. I blogged a discussion on web2.0 in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. What advice would you give to someone about starting a blog? t have a clue." Practical examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. " prompted some discussion. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Poke around the web site and their wiki to learn more about their work and be sure to watch this brief, inspiration video about " Shared Culture."). Three years ago I created that PowerPoint deck based on a discussion I had with Mike Seyfang and Stephen Downes trying to really deeply understand which license to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

High bandwidth version on screencast.com Screencast Wiki. I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. Two of the other three interviews were more of a free wheeling discussion and I did not do any local screencapture. Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. I recommend you check out the wiki and evaluation report to dig deeply into the content. Below are three things I learned from the Advice exhibit and will take with me into future work.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

URGENT: Facebook Pages are changing | facebook | social-advice- Advice for charities – More information about changes coming to Facebook – this time it's more changes in the way Fan Pages function. A great read if you have a fan page for your organization as these changes are said to go into effect in early 2010.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy. They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. JO: What’s your best advice for the aspiring connected activist?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

He got in touch with me last week to discuss some ideas for the article and asked me to respond to a few questions. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 What advice would you give? into their repertoire?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Change does not happen in organizations unless there is education through discussion. This is a different way of working. Measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: JOIN the Stop Cyberbullying network to create a central repository of information that is rated and reviewed by educators and to discuss what works. Listen to Wes Fryer's podcast (or read his wiki ) about Cyberbullying. about civility!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag! Some nice screencasts on how to use wikis can be found at the Commons, a wiki magazine for nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Happy Thanksgiving! Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life.

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