Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries. A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Content Evolution. With the growth of the platforms themselves, we experience greater content capabilities. Modern, more dynamic content allows for a greater utilization of media and ultimately superior effectiveness. References: 24-hours.psd: Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Photo by Cambodia4kids Creative Commons License. This post titled " To My Readers: Avoiding Plagiarism, Understanding the Creative Commons License " made some great points about giving attribution in blog posts beyond a link. More about Open Content and Creative Commons licenses here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him! Social media is a perfect compliment to our public access television channels.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services. Yet, while the social networks hold tremendous benefit for nonprofits that successfully engage their stakeholders, there are also dangers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

You can use social media, email marketing, and other methods to let people know about your merchandise and the cause it supports. Use social media Depending on your target audience, social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter can be powerful tools for promoting your merchandise.

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Forum One

MARCH 22, 2022

This doesn’t just entail the monthly or yearly licensing fee; you will need to look beyond that to see if there are other fees for usage. Some integrations to consider include your CRM, CMS, and social media management platform. Below are four things you should consider when making a selection of a marketing automation tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? How do I communicate my content???s s licensing and that of the sound bite? When deciding where to indicate licensing information, it is again a case of ???more license to play the song.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Think about the way you interact and engage with social media. What sort of content do you gravitate towards? There's no question that social media gives us the power to easily create, curate, and share the precious moments of our lives. Or even that Instagram currently averages 55 million posts per day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. Flickr Photo by Maurice. I wonder which scenario is at work here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

of the power of the "by" license and had just turned my default to it. I put that photo under that license because that was the default licensing available in flickr. At the time, I was pretty darn clueless about creative commons licensing and the why it is important. I've now become convinced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

Robin’s point in curating this resource: Here’s a great visualization of how different can be the traits of content re-use. I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

To keep him engaged with his school work, I've been teaching him powerpoint and how to make slide shows related to content he's learning in class. He also has a digital diary in the form a powerpoint presentation.

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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

MAY 3, 2010

I was impressed with how Pratham Books has used social media to reach out to children in rural areas who are the " Bottom of the Pyramid.". He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy. Curated Content.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Ben asked me to participate in this very fun and insightful project to highlight and share our views of the top 5 trends for the next decade for technology and social media that will impact charity communications. portability – moving to the cloud; conversations and content moves seamlessly across platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Vancouver, BC: Content Marketing for Non-Profits with Vanessa Chase. Philadelphia, PA: Crowdsourcing Change: Applying the Social Web to Some Philly Nonprofits. Vancouver, BC: NetCoffee² - A casual coffee discussion over content marketing ! What is a social presentation ? Wednesday, August 7. Thursday, August 8.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Nearly everything we have listed above is free, plus all of the content on TechSoup is Creative Commons – licensed. This means you can take our training content, post it on your website, use it in social media, or use it in your trainings or newsletters. For TechSoup resources , see our recent blog post.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2017

Guide to Microsoft Server Licensing. These are great in-person social events where you can meet nonprofit techies in your locale, learn new skills, and talk shop. All of the content on TechSoup is Creative Commons licensed. Tips for Nonprofits Setting Up SharePoint Online. Finding and Using Images for Your Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

With the rise of visual social media (like Pinterest and Instagram), a clear trend in digital communications is more images and fewer words — even if you are communicating through your website or an email newsletter. Creative Commons has six different licenses that allow for the perfect amount of sharing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. The standard YouTube license is restrictive. Creative Commons CC BY copyright provides a standard way for content creators to grant someone else permission to use their work with attribution (giving them due credit). " View Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2007

Michelle Murrain has set up a new NTEN Affinity Group called Open Content Business Models. The description: There has been a lot of discussion in the nonprofit technology community about open content. Open content is content (papers, articles, presentations, graphics, etc.) Open Content for Nonprofits?

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

There's more content than ever before -- and more confusion about how we can use it. But the bottom line is, if you're working in social media, you can't afford to miss this session. We use Creative Commons to license all of our reports, etc. .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

If you want to use it for a commercial production, that's okay: they have an easy license for that as well ("with any money that's generated being given to the humane society."). "This is the first in a series of Social Media/Web Strategy Articles that I am going to be writing over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Athletes for a Cure ( read about their social media strategy ). Social Media Strategy: Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content. There are different media forms that mandate different types of content — and nonprofits must consider this as part of the online content strategy. Treesaver divides content into pages, automatically adjusting to the size of any screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

A little bit NPTech blog kismet, someone just the other day raised the question: "What's good or useful about user-generated content and what's just entertaining or cute?" You should also keep an eye on licensing and copyright. Be prepared for techy questions/problems and to help solve them to maximise your entries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. Sure, you can deliver a lot of a great content, but the real joy of being a trainer is seeing how your participants apply what they learned. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

There’s still a bit of a hurdle for organizations that don’t think their content is good enough,” as Justine Greenland Duke, senior manager for knowledge management at MasterCard Foundation, puts it. The use of open licenses (like creative commons) and open repositories (like IssueLab ) are two such shifts.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

What is the ideal role of your marketing or PR team in the creation and distribution of content on the social Web? I'd aruge that it doesn’t make sense for marketing to create and control all of the content produced in Web 2.0-land. They aren’t going to be confused about what institution created and distributed the content.

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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. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

Social media integrations, like LinkedIn. With Teams, you can easily host up to 100 people for the basic license and 500+ attendees for large virtual events. . Video content syndication. It has multiple networking rooms, the ability to live stream, one-to-one messaging, and keynote presentations. Private messaging.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Naples, Florida: Social Media Surgery — Back to Basics and One-on-One Q&A. Covina, California: Monetization of Content. Dublin, Ireland: VR for Social Impact.

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