Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

There are approximately 50-60 students in five different countries working together to peer into the future of learning based upon the Horizon Project Report 2007 Edition by the New Media Consortium and Educause (pdf). The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. From my experience in doing technology trainings, no matter well you describe levels and content, you always get a range of experience, comfort, and skill. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

You've got to set your ideas free, you can't control your content. You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. I'm also curious to see what works for a webinar. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. That said, many tools work well together. How will you know if the tools you chose are working for you? This might seem like a silly question, but the number of clients I work with who come to me and sigh, "So, I guess I have to start a blog," is astonishing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. It was because I wasn't only backed up within 24 hours, not minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

This is work in progress. When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? I still feel like I haven't totally wrapped my brain around all this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

This site carefully aggregates and vets educational content from places like the nonprofit Khan Academy , PBS Kids , Discovery Channel , and other reputable online educational sources. They’ve had lots of experience seeing what works and what doesn’t. How It Works. There are hundreds of things on there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. One of the most valuable experiences I've had in my professional work is having critical friends (You can see what that means here , here and here ). 3) Joins the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. I'm nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Our mantra has been (and will continue to be) that each page of content. We also keep hammering that content needs to be content -. not solely navigation -- just related links that are directly related to the content. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ??? Search drives visitor behavior. needs to standalone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). Detective Work: What's going on here? Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit.

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