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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. The 5K Visual Browser is one tool that help you see connections between the people you interact with on Twitter.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have found it especially useful to do this to kick off a longer-term peer learning experience as in the example below illustrating the knowledge and expertise of a cohort of NGOs from Pakistan that I worked with during my time as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Diversity correlates with innovation!

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#mygivingstory: Resources and Best Practices for @GivingTuesday Nonprofit Storytelling

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This past week, I participated in a Twitter Chat (the complete and detailed transcript of every tweet here ) where we discussed storytelling. But there other structures – for example see the below drawing of the RadioLab story structure. Refugee Girls in Lebanon. The call for submissions runs through November 24.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

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The most famous example of the 6-word exercise is Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" – a tale of loss. As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut.

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Cleveland, Ohio: How to Remarket to Website Visitors via Facebook and Twitter. Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon's Digital Big Bang — An AltCity Info Session. HTML EXAMPLE Image: Siobhan Aspinall with Umbrella at The Digital Nonprofit 201 : Elijah van der Giessen via Michele Mateus / CC BY-NC 2.0. --> spanhidden.

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E-Mediat: Social Media and Digital Activism in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She identifies four categories and gave examples for each. On the lighter side, they shared a brief video by @ Naeema and @ sdarine about why people Tweet in their country and who want to throw a party when Arabic Twitter comes to town. The categories included Insiders, Entrants, Persuaders, and Usurpers.

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panelists included: Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mark Horvath of Invisible People and Jessica Dheere , of Social Media Exchange Beirut in Lebanon. The Twitter Advocate is someone who is watching the hashtag stream and can verbalize to the room what a question or comment posted on Twitter.