Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Source: Pratham Books. See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. But we didn't stop there. November 1-15th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr. Mike Connery from OpportunityAgenda shared a fascinating project his nonprofit did in flickr in partnership with students in a media production class. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. Here's the description.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. As part of this project, NTEN will host a two-day face-to-face social media and nonprofits workshop, a boot camp that will cover strategies, tactics, and tools and will drive from resources in this wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

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. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Also, the game is licensed under creative commons - which means folks are welcomed to use as long as share and share like (with attribution). In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

In today's email, J Wynia, shared with me a tool he created with the Flickr API that lets me search for interesting photos that I can remix or use and automatically generates the attribution. Yet, I wonder if this is a compelling enough reason for those work in nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

in nonprofit land. " I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. Or maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

It's a stellar example of good visual presentation and use of creative commons licensing. What would you change, add, or remove if you were to remix this slide show for a nonprofit audience ? I think this slide show by Lee White is one of the best ever!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

It is quite possible that Beth is some manner of prototypical superhuman android sent from the future to bring nonprofit tech. If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. no more than 3.5 no more than 3.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

Search on flickr using creative commons licensing. Is it licensed by creative commons? I want to remix this idea and make one for why nonprofits should integrate blogging. Did you have to use your own photos as part of the assignment? The rhytm of music is making me want more jump cuts and faster pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. happen in different locations several times a year and for the past three years, these meetings have taken place after the annual NTC: Nonprofit Technology Conference. Penguin Days.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

But it could be a very good model for how nonprofits can use the web to open up all the way and be as transparent as possible. Remixing the content: Government content can't be copyrighted, so you're free to grab and reuse any government created content on the site. That's where Recovery.gov comes in. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. " and tells exactly why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

” Occasionally, like today, I find myself stuck or lack inspiration for what to blog about or there is a hole in my editorial calendar. I have been using the “Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly” Maturity of Practice model as a framework for over a year now to assess nonprofit social media practice. Source: Copyblogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Cadbury Gorilla Youtube video - had many, many remixes Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando - only told 7 people, but exposed 350,000,000 people. When speaks to different groups, including nonprofits he gets push back. Used creative commons licensed e-book. Everyone can achieve similar success. Used to do yellow pages.

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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. Since widgets were fairly new, I installed a mail widget on my blog and asked nonprofit techies what they thought. I'm so excited! I didn't want those to get lost.

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