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A Free Agent and Nonprofits Working Together To End Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m supporting the organizations working on the front line and I’m doing the best I can to fight homelessness.&# Mark is an expert at using social media to connect his work on the ground with a broader network of people and organizations who share his goal. This year, he has a film crew following him creating a documentary.

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Congrats Mark Horvath & Invisible People TV for Pepsi SXSW Challenge Win

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. Conclusion.

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Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

However, before we can talk about prizes or even sending submissions, we need to cover how to create those digital stories. Fortunately, TechSoup’s generous donors offer the following range of tools to create powerful digital stories. Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. And when our attempts at engaging communities online or creating profiles on various new media platforms didn’t work the way we wanted, we excused that failure with newness. We assumed the digital space was all new.

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. The maps are made by community members.

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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shel describes how Molson adds the use of social media to the mix to create lethal generosity. Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program. Take for example contests. Contests have been a marketing tactic for years.

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