Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Colin McKay (aka Canuck Flack ) in his Nonprofit Secret Underground Guide To Social Media Adoption suggests that most nonprofit organizations (well large ones) already have policies in place to deal with potential concerns about social media. Tags: policy. Can every on staff be a spokesperson? How do we control and protect our brand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. His guide in country turned to him and said, "Be yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

We created a network of fans who are remixing our context and spreading our message, how do we guide them effectively without controlling them? Tags: network effectiveness. How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I I put this question out on Twitter and summarize in the next blog post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Tags: training materials. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2009

Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. Consider this particularly hilarious YouTube remix video. All you need to make a similar remix that -- oh, we don't know -- matches the words of a certain former VP with " Every Breath You Take ", you just need some video footage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

" Here's how the site defines it: is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds. That's the shareable output from searchCrystal it's an ego search on the term "Beth Kanter."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

So, instead of figuring out what collection to feature, we brainstormed themes that would guide interactions. These wacky 'remixed' adages would then be pressed into buttons for visitors to wear/take home. Tags: exhibition Talking to Strangers design guestpost. always before you _" or "a __ in the hand is worth two in the.")

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. So, set it to stream based on the tag "linkblog" and that way I.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

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? Tags: professional development. Of course, there’s a less legal question here, one about authority and control. But that requires acknowledging their existence. Let’s change that.

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