Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. Some of this, of course, is organization culture driven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. The next set of case studies came from ACLU-Northern California and IDEX and both touch on cultural differences and translation on social media channels and how to optimize. His take away: “Let the talent be themselves.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. We also get to make these works matter to one another: That we can surface and pass around the video or the prose so that it becomes a shared cultural object also changes the nature of the ours. Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Not every nonprofit will go through the levels at the same pace due to organizational culture, capacity, or communication objectives, program design and target audiences. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

The students had to create an image that was representative of the organization's core values and then create another image that another student could remix. We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The pro remix message: Culture is well-served by liberal rules that let one person remix another's creation. The anti remix message: The exhibition policy on photos: no photos are allowed in the exhibit. Does it want to inspire us to remix Magritte, or warn us off the idea of reproduction without permission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. The film will use music as a lens to examine the greater issues of gene patenting, bio-piracy, medicine, and the ownership of culture. I'm blessed with a co-production with the National Film Board of Canada (www.nfb.ca), which is Canada's cultural film agency. Brett Gaylor is a amazing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Leadership and culture are important. A Learning By Doing Organizational Culture: Witzel says that there organization's DNA incorporates learning by doing. The culture allows the experimentation On the ground, Witzel says, his program group is experimentating. We don't want to hurt our partners.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

They provide venues in which patrons and students can engage with, discuss, share, remix, and create information." The report designates libraries as "anchors" that can bring together public officials, businesses, schools, hospitals, cultural institutions, and individuals to come up with a community action plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Celebrating Birthdays is definitely part of Facebook culture.

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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." which heralded a new, participatory web culture. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2006

When Harry's first tooth came out, we made a cross-cultural remix vlog post with help from Cambodian Bloggers. Harry's second baby tooth came out! Now he's waiting for another dollar and a riel (apparently the Tooth Fairy gives out US and Cambodian currency in this house).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. That's hard work, but worth it because good questions and gathering evidence usually guides us to better results. Many people have also remixed it.

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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. These are particularly important for International Networks made of people speaking different languages and having different cultural norms. (1) However, the local culture was to cover your body up. 1) Everybody is People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for Creative Commons' values and tools, I want to do my part in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

With the help of Cambodian bloggers who shared some sound files of the khmer word for tooth and a description of tooth customs, we created a one-minute documentary about the Khmer Tooth Fairy: Remixing Cultural Customs Around Loosing a Tooth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Add to this the formal trainings, social media policy guidelines, and the ability for local united ways to cross pollinate, remix, and implement their local campaigns - and you have a networked approach to a social media strategy. As Iavor says, "On a tactical level, we have to avoid silos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it! They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. Let's examine this as a community-driven tagging project.

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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. When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. Networked Love, Bonding, Intimacy: Our Interactive Culture Clouds Visual mapping of relationship circles: exploring tools for appropriate social technology in conference cultures where work and pleasure meet. Who are these for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives? This is not yet formed, just thinking outloud. What happens when fundraising meets social networking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Personally, I expect to see gift economies really take off on the web, in non-profits and open source with the ability to remix knowledge, skills and experience into something different. It seems to work pretty well in the non-profit and open source context where the starting point is an expectation of sharing, collaboration and attribution.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I know that many people are uncomfortable with the growing culture of self-documentation, but no one should let their own aesthetic preferences dictate others' behavior without good reason. Of course, museums shouldn't let marketing desires, popular opinion, or cultural forces drive all decisions. This is prejudicial treatment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10. In fact, Karaoke is a core part of our reMix culture and this panel will show you how. But it wasn't here to enterain, no. Karaoke came to unite us in song.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2009

Politics, Technology and Pop culture Room 9 Saturday, March 14th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Remixing the Museum Exhibition Room B Monday, March 16th 10:00 am - 11:00 am. Delicious Tech for Localism: Sustainable Food 2.0 Room 10 Tuesday, March 17th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. Featuring @rachelannyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Or, why build up a large implementation team from scratch when you can contract with organizations that have been around 20-30 years and are quite familiar with each country and culture they help? Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A.

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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. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects. Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Since OS communities generally begin with a small group of developers or a scratch your own itch approach and some developers tend to be egomanics - how do you build community within this culture? Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. I pitched my Open Content game for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Culture Change. Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. Message in A Box : Search Engine Optimization. Message in A Box Email Marketing. Message in A Box : Web Site Planning. Sony Bolsters Web Presence with Social Networking Features by PR Week. How will you address any fears or concerns? Rinse, repeat.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Tuesday When on Tuesday morning I found the sessions “Museums Remixed Part One: Creating Visitor-Authored Experiences” and “Museums Remixed Part Two: Can we allow users to become participants?” The Museum Remixed panelists presented projects and concepts that invited visitors to participate in interpreting collections.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

There was strong interest in the NAS report addressing the specific value and use of museums and libraries as part of the cultural, educational, and civic landscape of the U.S. If museum and library content is licensed, not owned, how can we work within those licenses to allow visitors to use and remix to their heart’s content?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

As I reread this post, I think about the incredible opportunities (and risks) for cultural and civic organizations - rather than publicly-traded tech companies - to create and manage platforms on which people connect, share knowledge, and participate in civic life. It's based on creation and delivery of experiences.

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