Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Remember the aim is to have your content turn up in searches for media that is suitable for remix. CreativeCommonsReadWriteCulture03.jpg jpg Originally uploaded by MikeBlogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. It gets your work out there. Remix This Powerpoint. The presentation itself is a remix of a remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

.)   He has reiterated this game over and over for different audiences and circumstances and I've remixed the game for filmmakers and even took it to Cambodia.     That was until I got this email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked, and the files! . 

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2022

By filling out your Candid nonprofit profile on GuideStar, you can ensure your digital presence is up to date and prioritize creating content to share on GivingTuesday. Use your Candid profile for social media content: Turn the text you wrote for your profile into social media posts leading up to GivingTuesday. Same mission statement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

What is good curation versus bad curation? The image is a remix of a presentation entitled ” Link Building by Imitation ” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well. His concern was that people would get the wrong message: content curation = theft.

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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. I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice. The point is that we learn best by teaching what we have learned and interacting with others to share ideas and work through problems. The Power of Remixable Content.

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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. You can see my remix here. I'm also curious to see what works for a webinar. I added a lot of visuals, I changed the examples, reorganized and tweaked the steps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Sharing is an essential part of storytelling, and our friends at Creative Commons are devoted to expanding the number of creative works that are available to (legally!) That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. What Creative Commons license should I use for my work?

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I had the honor of working with a group of really smart communications practitioners who have decades of experience working with nonprofits and/or foundations. I learned a lot in terms of the content but also as a facilitator.

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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

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. They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation.

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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. Read Jim Lynch's post about the use of Slide Rocket for great presentations and remote work in the cloud. On July 26 at 6 p.m. SlideRocket.

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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. I’m in it for the outcome.”

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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. Its the power of being about to work in a networked way with a group that isn't pre-defined. The remix epitomizes the era of social relationships (see Jeremiah Owyang's Five Eras of Social Web ).

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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. It's left up to the person who created the work. Its from " The Science of Leonardo " by Fritjof Capra.

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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

APRIL 1, 2007

I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

I wanted to write some reflections about what worked and what could have been improved with the Social Media Game.    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. . 

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Your work is courageous, compelling, groundbreaking. 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. Your cause is worthy. Have more time.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

I first saw Scratch a few years ago, when I had friends working at the Media Lab, and at the time it seemed like a neat way for kids who were unfamiliar with programming to jump in and start designing their own interactive stories and games. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects.

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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. 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

DECEMBER 15, 2006

There are other reasons why YouTube can be problem too - the little issue of content ownership, particularly if you want your work to get out there and be remixed as in participatory media. That's why I think, in part, point #1 here should be a little less YouTube specific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. Walkers have internalized listening and are able to use the data they collect to improve engagement and content best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. This is an emerging experiment of a community working a networked way.

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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 says, "We are working on the launch of a branded social network. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. 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. Here's the full room exercises. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. I was incredibly lucky to have a fantastic group of participants , all passionate about their work, very knowledgeable, and excited about integrating social media into their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Click To Play I've been exploring about how a teacher or parent might seek out video blog content that is educational for kids not yet ready to mix their own. And, viewing them gives you many ideas on how to create your own -- before you create, it is always a good idea to look at other work out there. Imogen Heap Info For Remixers.

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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." This covered what could be downloaded on a computer, whether the employee could use their email for personal use, and browsing the Internet during work hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

According to Jason Ricci, Chief Product Officer, Sprout is a concept that grew out of our work at Chipin - and we definitely haven't lost our nonprofit roots.look for more fun functionality geared towards nonprofits in the future. You can use this flash editor to create your own custom widget for fund raising - adding multimedia content.

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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. I'm working a "rubric" of different types of social media projects, from the easiest lowest risk to the more complicated and resource intensive. Furthermore, your R&D department will appreciate the fact you did some of their work for them.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. As things got better financially, as we learned more about what worked and didn't, we replaced furniture and enhanced our exhibitions.

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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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