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. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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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." Online social networking was just being born. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Google Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Lucy brings up some points about metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Nina Simon, Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Michelle from aids.gov left a great comment in the original post letting me know how they remixed the work and use the strategy map questions to create their organization's social media strategy. Also, it is great to close the loop and have the opportunity to remix a remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. Identify Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a tension with using social media to support your network. It's like designing a space suit to wear on mars when you haven't been there Over the past two years, the Packard Foundation has worked in partnership with Monitor Institute to explore how networks were changing the social sector. (If Photo by Thiago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. .

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

You've heard a lot on this blog, and many others in the sector, about the power of social media and the web to bring more transparency to our work. Social media tools give your stakeholders ways to interact with data like never before. . My favorite bit so far is the jobs map. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

Participants are encouraged to bring their own open content ideas, questions and challenges to the dialog So, for demonstration of the value of open content, I am remixing two existing games for these session: The Social Media Game from David Wilcox. Lucy Chilli's Copyright and Commons Publishing Game. or Why Not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

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. minute videos, map out the screencast before you actually film it, create a storyboard, write a script, use music. no more than 3.5

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

My favorite part of SXSW in recent years is the flood of nonprofit and socially conscious topics, speakers and movements that are becoming more prevalent on the line-up. The lounge will be the place to meet the best and brightest socially-conscious Geekeratti at SXSW and catch some unplugged local music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

He has a context for what may work and what may not for a community building process for a new media curriculum. Join Expertise Map - I set this up as a community directory - so people could see who was here and know their expertise. I came across a blog post by Will Allen that talked about the social value of communities of practice.

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