Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Ustream. live broadcasts.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

started broadcasting myself at my desk typing, and posted an alert on twitter. This might have some potential for live broadcasting from a conference. Today I noticed that Ustream.Tv was in the nptech tag, so after a couple of hours of reviewing tagged items and summarizing them, I played with Ustream. I fired up my webcam.

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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission. David Weinberger gave the wrap up at the end of the day. An outline of what he said is here. He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. It's ours in a different way.

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Public Media At Risk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the time, there was no continuing threat to cut funds for public broadcasting. It seems that every day there is a new attack on public broadcasting; the most recent coming from conservative provocateur, James O’Keefe, in an Ambush video of NPR fund raiser Ron Schiller, who quickly resigned for making inappropriate comments.

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How Do World Leaders Use Twitter? New Findings from Annual Twiplomacy Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is expected to surpass the United States White House account, @WhiteHouse (4,973,061), within the next days and is using Twitter as a power tool to broadcast his messages.

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Facebook Announces Overhaul of Newsfeed: What Does It Mean for Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook will continue to aggressively grow it’s Watch digital television platform and favor content in the News Feed from shows and live broadcasts, particularly regular episodic content. Paid social and bots and decreasing posting frequency will be more important and training your community to use “ see first ” option).

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John Palfrey at Beyond Broadcast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Text notes here and podcast of his remarks here.

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How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ve partnered with TheUpTake.org , a nonprofit, online video news gathering organization, which will broadcast live coverage of Give to the Max Day using Livestream.com. Livestream.com is a web service that enables users to create free accounts and broadcast video live over the Internet. And, we have a Tweetup planned for Nov.