Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. Just think of the funny caption you could add to the photo above using this tool.) Create a birthday card by remixing a photo of Beth or remix one of your own or anyone else's photo of me in flickr and send it into the Beth5.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The tools make it easy for staff to capture, present, and apply what they’re learning. Design or Become A Learning Concierge (Content Curator). This person would assist others in developing their own self-directed learning activities with networks as well as curate relevant learning content to the needs of the organizations.

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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. Tool mastery may belong to younger people, but. Also, include tip sheet that provides these tool is good for xyz, but not good for abc. The important question is to ask, "to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

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. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated 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) 6) Training.

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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. Storytelling is an evolving art, and new tools are. find the right tool for your communication needs can be challenging for. favorite tools for dynamic storytelling on any device. SlideRocket. time-strapped causes.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2007

To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr. 54 people joined the group.

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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

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. What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some tools: Here's some remix flickr tools.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

  As I mentioned to the group,  it is always a work in progress and this Aloha Remix included some new ideas - the point system, the situation cards, and scenarios that were not all non-profit.   We didn't drill down into the tools at all - most mostly concepts and case studies. .    Heck no! 

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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." Most of the content was (and is) user generated. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But finding the staff time and creativity to come up with fresh, original content for every channel on a regular basis can be exhausting. Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. Focus on creating great marketing content. When writing content, go from cakes to cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin.

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AFP Blog

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

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. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . It prevents us from falling prety to shiny objective syndrome. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. 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. and what you can achieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

The product is a drag-and-drop Flash authoring tool built on Adobe's Flex. 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.

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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. from Matt Goddard If you are new to social media, in terms of the tools and technology or how to integrate them into your product release strategy, consider the following activities. By using some of the tools that come with a del.icio.us Rinse, repeat.

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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

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. These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. These are conversations that you want to have behind the firewall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Now, I've been an ardent supporter of creative commons licensing and have changed my default licensing from to "BY" and use "BY-NC" when appropriate because, in the end, I want to set my content free! I was able to use little tool to remix the photo because of the license that Michelle used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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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. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Certainly with tools like co-tweet maintaing multiple presences can be efficient. 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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Social media tools give your stakeholders ways to interact with data like never before. . Obviously, you aren't overseeing a stimulus package -- but you can use the same set of tools and ideas to show your stakeholders exactly what you're up to. But they've also made sure that third-party content is licensed through Creative Commons.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. You can also remix other projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Eugene said not to focus on the content. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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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. The task, to pick the tools for a particular situation, was just not right in this context. tools and ideas. tools, this would have worked as a culminating activity.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Visitors may make inappropriate gestures in photos with museum content, thus distorting institutional values and intent. There have been several studies that show that creating a personal record of an experience and reviewing it later increases learning and retention of content. And it's not just about recall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. Give the new version of the people cards a joyful funeral if doing the game as part of the social media lab and there isn't enough time to cover the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

What is the best tool for very large communities? How well does the tool support the organic growth of the community? I pitched my Open Content game for Nonprofits. Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. How to get into the forums without being labeled as a stupid newbie.

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