Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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WeAreMedia: Nonprofit Examples of Stakeholder Generated Content, Some Great Tips, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We've gotten some excellent "user generated" content (for example, check out the tips ). If you have five minutes, and your nonprofit has a blog, podcast, youtube channel, or flickr stream that you think is an awesome example of sharing your story social media style -- add a link to it and tell us why it is awesome.

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My YouTube Interview with Steve Cliff: Part 1 - Six Tips for Community Tagging Projects

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost as excited as I was when I got the call from YouTube founders about a $1million grant! re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. We had a problem with mno06 as tag, because it brought up all the YouTube users with mn in their name.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This YouTube video is from Kenneth Goldstein and it's hilarious. There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. Specifically, since the mashup uses clips from a copyrighted Frank Capra film, is this a copyright violation or an example of fair use ?

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Guest Post by Brooke McMillan: How LIVESTRONG Uses Social Media To Animate Its Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The LAF goes beyond a mere presence on social networks, it has taken a maven approach, engaging deeply with supporters with a regularly updated blog , MySpace , Facebook , YouTube , and Twitter presences. Here are a few examples of how we engage with our community to make this day a success: 1.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute, and there are as many people over 55 watching video on YouTube as there are under 18. The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago.

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What Comes First, Content Creation or Curation?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. And that means creating content – blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, YouTube Videos – that is valuable and high quality. This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! I might qualify this a bit by saying, there is no curation with awesomely addictive social content !

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