Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. In my case, I use a Facebook update, but you could use an update on any channel with the relevant engagement options, in this case Like, Comment, and Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

In the comments , BethP asked a great question: How often do you come across situations where you feel like the CC license has been abused? As I responded in the comments, I run across a lot of abuse. It's left up to the person who created the work. Also, it is great to close the loop and have the opportunity to remix a remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

As demonostrated by this project, podcasting can also facilitate visitors creating their own guides and tours. That people have engaged so much with the art that they would be movitated to create their own audio guide and share with others, perhaps people who have never set foot inside the museum before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

I done various remixes -- for example most recently for fundraising and a version for Filmmakers. A number of o ther folks have remixed the game -- and it's been translated into different languages too. Ihad set up a wiki with the idea of collecting the remixes and incorporating some templates or make it easier for folks to remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. " I've been thinking about remixing that slide so it matches the framework I set up for WeAreMedia tactical modules. Download it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. There was a quote in the comments that said, "Some companies are just not quite ready for true ???transparency???, Flickr Photo from Wokka. transparency???,

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. Focus on creating great marketing content. Create something really robust, informed, and complex (like a delicious cake). Gather comments, observe newsletter subscriptions and social sharing, etc. Have more time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So, I thought I'd take a stab at remixing it for nonprofits.  Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. These are blogs communities or group blogging sites created by a nonprofit that lets their stakeholders blog on their site. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Inspiration may come from outside our silo and together we'll remix it. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Deborah Zanke ) ( Jason Shim ) 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. I created these for Twitter , Facebook Fan Pages , and Listening. . Many people have also remixed it. I did floating consults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

That social media doesn't create new behavior, only amplifies existing behaviors. Can our fans remix our logo or will legal get involved? Many organizations just beginning their social media strategy understand the value of listening as a first step. And the senior managers got concerned, "do we want our staff commenting on blogs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. Alan Levine (cogdog blog) who submitted the winning entry left a comment in a post where I asked that same question. The above slide show was created with Splashr , billed simply as ???a The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. between causes and people, both create an interesting strategic question for organizations that seems like a fruitful place for future investigation: how do you get those people involved? on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign and gave some money too.

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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. Please leave a pointer in the comments. I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. As of today, ScratchR boasts 236,997 projects created by 37,820 contributors of ScratchR's 174,425 registered members. Those are big user numbers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that visitors create? What's the "use" of visitors' comments? Whether visitors' work will be used to create an artwork, a dataset, or an exhibit, the solicitation is directly tied to an intended product.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Feel free to share your answers in the comments. As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. The kind comments and emails I've received this year from Have Fun, Do Good readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did ! in honor of his late mother.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". You don’t want to create an extra program or extra work, it has to support your existing marketing goals. This is a nonprofit remix of some of Chris Brogan's ideas and 50 ways to use social media organized by Groundswell objectives from Jeremiah Owyang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs. It was a link list I created on how to create web pages. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

There are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the " The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike " Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes. So this post, is my first pass at that and hopefully you'll suggest lots of ideas in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

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. Many of the participants lived blogged the sessions and the notes created are good content for the wiki. Set up RSS Reader, Start Commenting on blogs. Set up a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. It is a web-based software application where you can record your screen online and upload and share quick screen casts created on the fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. Additional panels mentioned in the comments of the earlier roundup are here: Who are you? Who are these for?

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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. Dealing with negative comments. Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. Addressing personality versus organizational voice. Not being successful, fear of failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It encompasses more than just the transactional act of making a donation, it includes asking for the help of influential stakeholders to create online social fundraisers and reach out to their networks. The more specific, the better. Also, crowdfunding works when it is time-based and you can create a sense of urgency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. runs from coordination to engaging in the writing, contributing, and editing, and finally creating from scratch.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Now, I and thirteen other students are creating an exhibit designed not around content goals but social action goals. Nina challenged us to create an exhibit in 6 weeks that would get strangers to talk to each other. Good or bad, your advice—and the interactions that advice creates—takes center stage in this exhibit.

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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. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? The best comment line can be found at Emergency Trap Blog. comments/activity on your blog, etc.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Sure, we present an authoritative voice through label copy, but it is the conversations and connections that happen in the gallery space that create the rich experience of visiting a museum. Furthermore, it creates connections that enrich how people experience the web. Closing Comments The world is embracing web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. Please skip to the topics that interest you. How do you plan for the future?

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