Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

I was curious how a large national network with local affiliates approaches a social media strategy in a networked way. He tracks content to share about local United Ways. So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

So, fellow nonprofit communications professionals, I remixed David's scenario and replaced the word "corporate" with "nonprofit." t have to put all your cards on the table. Understand derived value and expectations of your long term social media strategy. Business is still business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

from advocacy groups to local community co-ops - work directly or indirectly to bring about financial systems reform. I've remixed them with a nonprofit view point. Photo by Vagamundo. Hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. They have offered a variety of responses to the recent events involving our financial systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. Looking for new challenges, they will champion causes ranging from gay marriage to local school improvements. It's that time of year again. Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." They eventually became hugely successful NetSquared Locals in several countries. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Looking for new challenges, they will champion causes ranging from gay marriage to local school improvements. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. Join the group, remix a photo of me, add the name of your favorite charity, and I'll donate $52 to the winner's charity. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory? of Wired Blog).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service ! I've had the pleasure of talking with Miles Maier face-to-face last month in Birmingham at the UK Circuit Riders conference hosted by LASA. Go read it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. So, I've been looking for a good reason to link over to them and now I found it! He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. And, as you can see below, Mike Ambs, of Caliblog already has. net neutrality???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. why do you give all of us the angkunh???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He mentioned that he ad done a great deal of research. He was asking his local guide a lot of questions about what was and what wasn't appropriate. However, the local culture was to cover your body up. Emergent collaboration takes place when your supporters remix your content and share with their friends.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Spring is often event season in the nonprofit world and I’ve been involved in my fair share over the past few months as a speaker at a gala, volunteer at a 5k fun run, an attendee at a “friend raiser” for a local politician and a few others in between. Get Rid of the Velvet Rope. Staffing volunteers. Technology'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Cultivating the Web: Netroots Action for Grassroots Food: The “organic” nature of social media creates fertile ground for activists, but how can online advocacy move beyond e-actions and Facebook Fan pages, translating to local, on-the-ground actions? Submitted by Leslie Hatfield.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. 1) Social Media Game : I have used the the social media game at over 50 trainings during the past four years and many others have re-purposed and remixed it too. I said yes. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The lounge will be the place to meet the best and brightest socially-conscious Geekeratti at SXSW and catch some unplugged local music. All elected offices (local, state, and yes even Congress) need more techies, scientists, and engineers. In fact, Karaoke is a core part of our reMix culture and this panel will show you how.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2009

Delicious Tech for Localism: Sustainable Food 2.0 Remixing the Museum Exhibition Room B Monday, March 16th 10:00 am - 11:00 am. My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man Room B Friday, March 13th 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Room 10 Tuesday, March 17th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. Featuring @rachelannyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I used the BBS to post questions asked by people in a local face-to-face support group who were not online. But not many people to share with or remix. You could log on and get ???just just in time??? answers from a chat room or wait a day and get a response to your question posted in an online forum. reflector surfing??? -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

There are four tiers of restriction possible with Creative Commons licenses: attribution (must credit author), noncommercial (can't make $$ off of reuse), no derivatives (can't cut, remix, adapt), and share alike (must redistribute with same license). I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The Local Story: This is about a specific local community and how your project serves them. Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

If they congregate in certain online locales, what are they talking about in relation to your brand/goals/issues/competitors? Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. What will resonate with them? What key points do you want to make with your audience? What social media tools are they currently using?

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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. I'm so excited! My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." Act 2: Why.

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