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WeAreMedia: What's Your Social Content Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When we kicked off the WeAreMedia, A Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits 18 months, we included two areas about content creation. Are we moving towards a "Social Content Strategy." Kristina Halvorson has a good definition: Content strategy plans for the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last fall, we marched all 350 or so Environmental Defense Fund staff through two days of a social media challenge.

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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Open source thinking is sharing and remixing. So, I remixed it for the audience. You can see my remix here. There are some definite pros/cons to the different approaches and I'll write about it later. You've got to set your ideas free, you can't control your content. wiki that Michele Martin created.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Reflections on the Social Media Lab Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. The configuration of the physical space definitely enhances learning. I said yes.

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The Social Life of PowerPoint Presentations (or why I really love SlideShare)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. BTW, she says that I " dropped science " but she means the 1st definition, not the fourth!