Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

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. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes.

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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. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. 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.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

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. This meant fans could share it on social media sites like Facebook, where it’s easy to share images.

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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.  And your organizational web site isn't enough because. Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. Green: Aggregate Content Blog. Who will write for the blog? Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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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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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." The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

You can use this flash editor to create your own custom widget for fund raising - adding multimedia content. Or have them sign up for a sprout account and remix it. With a little planning out of your content, it could be really powerful. Then have your supporters spread it. My widget is sort of lame because I'm tired right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map. 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. Here's an example.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Obviously, there's not a lot on the site yet. On the site, you can already read the bill, see the big breakdowns of how the money is being spent , and explore the projected timeline for implementation and impact. So far, the Recovery.org site only features the standard " Share Your Story " feature. You can do it, too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

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. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated.

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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. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. and what you can achieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

However, it was placed on flickr with "all rights reserved" which in addition to proper attribution - permission needs to be gotten before using, especially for a commercial site! I was able to use little tool to remix the photo because of the license that Michelle used. And, if asked, I would have gladly granted it!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

And this means having more and more staff having a presence on social media sites. Or else the perception of "wasted time" or fear that employees will play rather than work or view inappropriate content at work. I had noticed that there were over 300 groups in Facebook for SurfRider, many remixing the official logo.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Peter Dietz gives us a video walk through of his site, Social Actions which focuses on micro-philanthropy. Fundraising 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

" The summary: Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author. " His points seem geared for "blog as web site." As a result of the remixing aspects of Web 2.0, t necessarily know where to go to find it.

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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. If you've clicked on a link to the site from this post, congratulations--you are a ScratchR spectator. I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. You can also remix other projects. I'm one of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. 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). Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. All of the video clips came from searching ???net

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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. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!" " Greenpeace UK is about to launch a new drupal site. Open Content for Nonprofits?

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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 25, 2009

On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa. 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. Eugene said not to focus on the content.

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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

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. Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. I want everyone to be able to use the content and make derivative works.

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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. Most crowdfunding sites have the ability to customize donation levels to provide options for giving. 3: Socialize your content with compelling stories that inspire people to donate. Social Strategies.

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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). Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. Culture Change.

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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. A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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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. Libraries are more customer-focused, museums, more content-focused. What’s the best physical site for civic engagement?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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