Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

” He was invited to attend Davos in January and had an opportunity to meet Microsoft founder, Bill Gates and demo their project. The projects brought into the lab by these fellows are a wide range of mobile, social, and online applications and platforms that leverage existing web 2.0

Jordan 126

Jordan Saudi Arabia Morocco Lebanon 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Greg demos, demos, demos! Kalabird we used google docs wiki-like platform to build our new website's copy decks and implementation plan. start using it and invite others to join. best to start with a project that needs to be accomplished quickly and requires all. Once they see how fast you can create a page - they'll be hooked.

Wiki 50

Wiki Adopt Tips Minnesota 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

So, maybe the first thing you would do is education and training, maybe a live demo showing how social media works and why it is important. Sounds like science fiction doesn't it? I think you have to crawl before you fly.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Social Government 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In addition a social media policy , education and training, maybe a live demo showing how social media works and why it is important. This prompted a very productive discussion about how this board could use social media to support the organization. I think you have to crawl before you fly. So, this is a great first step.

Network 96

Network Government Chapter Nonprofit 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I finally met Devon Smith face-to-face who writes the awesome 24 Usable Hours blog , a must read on theatres and social media at our New York City book launch event hosted by Demos last month. Devon was inspired to write a book review as well as a ten-point Networked Theatre Manifesto. I like point 5 about interns.

Review 99

Review Network New York City Ning 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

The third demo was sort of a game. My demo would be silent - no narrative. And when the error message appeared or it didn't work as it did the first time, I would ask the class to brainstorm what was happening and why. I would go through the steps, intentionally making a mistake.

Camtasia 50

Camtasia Screencast Classes Teach 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This is far and away my favorite product I've seen at DEMO, not just this year but ever in the three years I've attended. Here's the demo on YouTube. Peter wondered about the ability to incorporate a chipin payment widget linked to other providers and how it may integrate with Facebook Causes. In minutes.

Flash 50

Flash Widget Remix Adobe 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Closing the Triangle : This is a network weaving technique of introducing people in your network. Bytes of Wisdom or humor : I share some geek humor now and then.

Twitter 94

Twitter Bookmarking Delicious Social Media 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

And speaking of screencasting, my screencast about tagging just made the TechSmith " Screencast of the Week " and I just got a big box of swag too, including some free demo CD's , that we'll hand out at the NTC Screencasting Session next week. Reprint of article Download Idealware_reprint_retooling_screencasting.pdf.

Screencast 56

Screencast NTC Tag Donation 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Here's a screencast from Gokubi Blog that demos a data analysis tool called Clicktools.

Screencast 50

Screencast Analysis Data Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Also, the workshops at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit are brief - half-hour demos. I have a huge job ahead of me because I have to go back and rethink a lot of the instrucitonal materials to see what will or will not translate. I use a lot of visual humor and it is probably to Americentric.

Bookmarking 50

Bookmarking Video Doc Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

for nonprofits with a little demo mixed in. In the morning, I'm doing a workshop called "Ten Steps Fundraising 2.0" " which is a remix of Marnie Webb's classic " Ten Steps To Change the World " and Steve Bridger's " Fundraising 2.0 " It's whirlwind tour of web2.0 The afternoon session is the game.

Money 50

Money Conference Remix Slideshare 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. What are visitors doing when they get there?

Analytics 50

Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2007

Here's the video we made on the spot as a demo. Yesterday morning, Andy Carvin , J onny Goldstein , and I presented a videoblogging panel at the NTC. The afternoon sessions were going to be informal coaching - so I thought it would be nice to have a quiet lunch with Andy and Jonny to prepare.

Award 50

Award NTEN Typepad NTC 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2005

Last night, I attended a demo of Dave Winer's OPML editor. You can find the text, audio, and video notes here. If you want to understand more about what it can do, read David Weinberger's notes. It will be available for download in a few weeks, so watch for it here.

Audio 50

Audio Video 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

It will include a introductory session (show and demo techniques) and the afternoon will be a drop-in clinic. I also like the panning and slow zoom on the stills, (which of course I can't do in MovieMaker.). Next month in Washington, DC at the NTC Conference, I designed a session on video blogging for nonprofits.

Discussion 50

Discussion Video Product Boston 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

In an attempt to create a demo to explain tagging and social tagging to some folks who run a ctc that works with homeless for Friday, I came up with the metaphor of a potluck dinner. Decadent Chocolate Dessert Originally uploaded by Choconancy1. Here's on one of the desserts. Let's see who else is coming and bringing what in flickr.

Homeless 50

Homeless Flickr Tag Photo 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

June Holley's Smart Network Analyzer: Sarah Carr from EBM a demo from a webinar ( here is the demo). Issue Crawler: Rob Stuart recommended Issue Crawler. You need a good set of URLs to feed it. More information can be found here. Rob Cross Organizational Network Analysis Software. Additional Resources .

Analysis 95

Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

And, not when we asked them to stand to do an exercise like the stretching demo above or share pairs. But, during the dialogue we had. I felt that the level of interaction and the substance of the conversation was higher quality than if people were just sitting and passively listening.

Reflection 50

Reflection Work Exercise Culture 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Darren Barefoot gave an amazing session on social media ROI, including a demo of Google Analytics Apps. I was in Toronto for most of the day before flying back and had an opportunity to attend several sessions.

Charity 91

Charity Conference Org Slides 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

Join us for live music, drinks, nptech application demos and plenty of free swag! Convio Nonprofit Technology Bash 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm BD Riley's (204 E 6th St) Convio proudly presents the first-ever SXSW nonprofit technology bash, featuring Social Actions and the celebrity judges of their Change the Web Challenge.

Austin 50

Austin Convio ROI Social Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

There is also an audio clip on the site of an interview done as a demo during the session. (I Russell's (AudioActivism) and Ruby Sinreich's (LotusMedia) presentation slides at the recent RPTnet conference. I wish they had recorded and distributed the entire session. ).

Podcast 50

Podcast Conference Technorati Slides 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

    A couple of weeks ago at the New Marketing Summit , Chris Brogan did a 10 minute demo of his work flow  to answer the question, " How do you keep up with all this ?" " (I captured it on Qik)  He mentioned Tweet Deck.   You can also create groups of followers.   

Brain 56

Brain Profile Avatar Twitter 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This is a short workshop and will be mostly delivered as an interactive lecture/demo style - with audience interaction. Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover. Also, the seating is fixed.

Instruction 50

Instruction Instructional Social Media Training 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

s Social Media Desk, Independence Year Foundation, The Center for Community Change, Student PIRGs, PBS, Video the Vote, Election Suppression Wiki, Women Donors Network, and Demos.    In addition, Current TV will be using the #votereport information as part of their special election coverage throughout the day.

Report 50

Report Twitter Cleveland Indianapolis 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The pitches included costumes, music, video filmed on-site, mock-ups, and social media demos. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch. And then the fun really started! Each team pitched their idea to the full EDF staff. We all voted, and the winning team got budget money to fund their social media plan. How did it go?

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Remix Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

This is a really fun product demo. For a less technically savvy user, I wonder about the lack of over to describe what is being viewed on the screen and the user's understanding of how to use it. There is a link to the download and the written instructions. Makes me want to download it now!

Screencast 50

Screencast Camtasia Music Flash 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Similar to what I've done here - except adding a live Twitter demo) One of the most important things you need to do as a trainer - is to listen and adjust on the spot. You have to be willing to toss out the lesson plan too -- ramp up or ramp down - and watch out if you're speaking in jargon.

New York 50

New York Arts Reflection Organization 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. Maybe not as many demos. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! I cut stuff out, but I could have cut more.

Reflection 50

Reflection Laptop Wiki Artist 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

I never dive into the tools, this session began with a focus on how and where listening fits in the organization and the work flow. I demoed a lot of different techniques in real time with suggestions of keywords or examples from the participants. In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques.

Organization 51

Organization Chicago Social Media Technique 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

I caught some of his demo on my digital camera - here's him shooting the video , uploading the video , and doing the cell phone podcast.) You Can Use Your Phone or your digital camera with video: He demonstrated how to do an audio podcast with your cell phone and a video podcast with his camera using hipcast. (I

Podcast 50

Podcast QuickTime Camera Audio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Note to self: write on AV set up that sound is needed along with the projector) We improvised the order and covered everything, including this demo of making a video blog post and uploading it to Blip.TV. Our morning panel went well despite a few technical glitches with the sound system.

NTC 50

NTC Video Camera Yahoo 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Having the opportunity to chat at the bar with Brian Solis about Conversation Prism, Liz Strauss about e-book publishing, Marshall Kirkpatrick , Betsy Webber , and Lee LeFever about screening casting, Tris Hussey who introduced me to Tanya Davis , getting a demo from Clarence Wooten about CollectiveX , talking to Andrew Hyde about techstars, Jay Cross (..)

Blogher 50

Blogher Peru China Conference 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise. This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" 20" or "Social Media." " We???ll

Roles 50

Roles Technology Wiki Hype 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

The meeting also included Steve Garfield 's demo of video editing on the cell phone. is not what is really important, what???s s important is ???emotional emotional resolution??? Most of what you need to do to communciate effectively is not expensive. That's his still I used in the cover of the video blog piece.

Boston 50

Boston Learning Media Audio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Ning Machinima 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden.

Second Life 50

Second Life Game Life Darfur 50