Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

The guide offers a few examples, and a reminder that you don’t have to use them all: Dollars to be raised. Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Creative Commons licensing isn't just a way to promote sharing of your content. Creative Commons-licensed content is also a great resource for you when you're creating a digital story. Here are some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open source thinking is sharing and remixing. You've got to set your ideas free, you can't control your content. So, I remixed it for the audience. I added a lot of visuals, I changed the examples, reorganized and tweaked the steps. You can see my remix here. wiki that Michele Martin created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The report also predicts the mainstreaming of the “learning concierge” (content curators who help other staff get better at self-direct learning with their networks) I’ve written and taught workshops on this topic extensively over the past three years and it is part of the syllabus of the graduate course I teach).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. One important design concept for this project is creative commons licensing - which allowed the community to remix, reuse, or repurpose the content. You also need social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I learned a lot in terms of the content but also as a facilitator. Point System: I need to rethink the point system based on the changes I've made the social media framework, especially some of the assumptions about social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. My content on Slideshare can easily be published here on my blog or by anyone else anyplace else! I don’t have be a networked silo! (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. Here's the description.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog. Netsquared.

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For others, it means being aware of what the root of the meme is, why people are remaking and remixing the content, and how your community will respond. For some organizations, that means never participating in any of this Internet hokey pokey, and that’s OK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. IDEX Trenton DeVal discussed how they work with their partners to respectfully get their stories and how they optimize these content for both social media, email, and print. His take away: “Let the talent be themselves.”

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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

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. 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

MARCH 23, 2010

For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. I used the framework to analyze nonprofit examples. For example, emoticons and gifts, or icons to be used and exchanged with friends or attached to messages and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? How do I communicate my content???s shout-out???

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Most of the content was (and is) user generated. " The year was 2005. The Iraq War was raging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The wiki is being released under a creative commons "by" license, the least restrictive license so that those who are training people from nonprofits are free to use or remix it for their needs. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content. So, what's my role in all of this?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2005

Untitled Document : "TechSoup NetSquared Project to Remix Web for Social Change; Call for Participation in Using Web 2.0 They succeeded because they understood and enabled the power of user-generated content and the power of peer networking.' 'Web-based to Transform Nonprofit Sector SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

This a terrific example of in working in networked way. According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about. He tracks content to share about local United Ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." There are examples (see below). The first wave of this was the social media strategists for nonprofits, take Wendy Harman for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

That's hard work, but worth it because good questions and gathering evidence usually guides us to better results. Gift of Time: Real Time Learning The problem with one-shot trainings is that you offer a lot of content and information, people get excited, and then they go back to the day-to-day reality of their busy work lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. The important thing is having the conversation.

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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. If you want to try some more intermediate or even advanced techniques for using social media, you can move from collecting third-party content to producing your own. First, as part of your product release strategy, you can develop some video content. Rinse, repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics.

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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. Take for example Jonathon Colman who is the Internet Strategist for the Nature Conservancy or Wendy Harmon from the Red Cross both are dog lovers!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together. For example, networks just getting started, need to build social lubrican of trust and this happens through relationship building. Modeling the norm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content). I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. And, as you can see below, Mike Ambs, of Caliblog already has.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. Crowdsourcing is another example of working in a networked way.

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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. You can also remix other projects. Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. More here ). *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other. content will be better when it's delivered in other, more appropriate. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

A week before our session, I posted a request to my broader Twitter network for arts and social media examples and asked people to add them to the wiki. 1) Social Media Game : I have used the the social media game at over 50 trainings during the past four years and many others have re-purposed and remixed it too.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Visitors may make inappropriate gestures in photos with museum content, thus distorting institutional values and intent. Security: Photographers might take photos with intent to do harm; for example, with plans to rob the museum or stalk another visitor. Looking at artwork through a lens means you are having a less rich experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Join the Conversation and Debate On Open Content for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

There are stacks of graphics, cut-out reproductions from the real rock posters on display next door, which visitors can place under the transparencies to arrange and remix into poster designs of their own choosing. The results of this physical “remix” activity are beautiful, intricate posters.

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