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. The important question is to ask, "to what end? For example, deeper dives on the mechanics of listening, engaging , social networks, or social content.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2012

Join us to learn how to mix live content with social media, video, public challenges, and narrative flow. presentations, often remixing previous content in new ways for. Questions are welcome and. On July 26 at 6 p.m. Pacific time (the morning of July 27 with Connecting Up. SlideRocket. conferences and public events.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Humberto Kam from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and Cindy Johanson from Edutopia shared some case studies about storytelling and what inspires people to share your organization’s content. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. ” Yes! ” Yes!

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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'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Download it here. In A Museum? 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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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 question made think about the word " attribution " which is an important concept in the Creative Commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. 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.

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Social media is all about the linkages to people versus content and the ability to self-organize and co-creative. I was delighted to discover the above remix of Wesch's video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us Dance Remix" via Elsua who helped me get to the Cambodian bloggers conference back in 2007.

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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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. But even better, this question posted on my Fan Page wall generated 14 insightful comments with useful advice, including one from the Facebook developer who worked on some Facebook translation tools!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was a little challenging to remix a workshop that would be relevant to these different perspectives and age groups and have people leave the room having learned something. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. I revised a lot of the content to match the audience. It was eye opening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Walkers have internalized listening and are able to use the data they collect to improve engagement and content best practices. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels. Their impact is to make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Let's look at a couple of areas where a policy or policy discussion might pave the way for more effective use: Personal versus Organizational A few years back, most of us on social networks might have answered the question, " How Do You Use Social Networks? Here come nagging policy questions. with "just for fun."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. My debrief of the two-day workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. 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. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

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. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. 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. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. ZdNet post raises the question "Salesforce.com pulls back on releasing subscriber totals; is that worrisome?" " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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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

APRIL 12, 2007

I'm sort of foggy on all the questions - due to my tired state, but the first set of opinion statements was "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for practical reasons" and "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for philosophical reasons. I pitched my Open Content game for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The Symposium grows from the NMC’s Emerging Technologies Initiative , which seeks to answer the question of how to keep abreast of emerging technologies that may be important for educators. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?" Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Perhaps have them flip through the cards and come up with a list of questions. Used fewer cards and focused on the content of the half-hour web2.0

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He mentioned that he ad done a great deal of research. He was asking his local guide a lot of questions about what was and what wasn't appropriate. 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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Earth Day, Remixed. The final result, Biz Markie’s Earth Day Remix , exceeded expectations by gaining over 1 million views and getting covered by numerous outlets, including ABC News and CNN. What if you wanted to showcase 1.8 million activists from across the country delivering a single message and have it be entertaining?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. One exercise you might want to go through to define success is to gather a diverse group of staff and have them answer the following questions: How do you define success for our organization or program? Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Metric: Content created. Some questions they should ask: What did you notice about the experience of eating the chocolate? Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Content Generation and Issues Awareness: You encourage stakeholders to create content about your organization or it's issues and share it with others and encouraging fans to talk about your issues to others (word of mouth). Not everyone needs a web site and a blog - that age old question - to blog or not to blog?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Designing an exhibit, the first questions are usually: “what is this about? What’s the content? Now, I and thirteen other students are creating an exhibit designed not around content goals but social action goals. These wacky 'remixed' adages would then be pressed into buttons for visitors to wear/take home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." My big question is when, as the facilitator, to get out of the way? Adding content - adding links, phrases, bullet points, or whole paragraphs. Levels of Participation.

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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. If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s You need to think about these questions first, widgets second. I'm so excited!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Rather, the focus of the conversations was philosophical: What are the consequences of user-generated content? It was clear that this group of senior museum professionals was not ready for the implications of user-generated content invading the establishments that they had worked so hard to build. It was a non-issue. in museums?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. The question was raised of whether we all belonged at the same table. Libraries are more customer-focused, museums, more content-focused.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. Content expertise matters. Content control shouldn't. But if our expertise is real, then we don't need to rule content messages with an iron fist.

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