Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

It is generated by www.deviousgelatin.com/montager using the flickr tag 'beth5.0'. Flickr Photo Remix Cards are all wonderful so I'm going to start blogging them!! I love the creativity and I'm learning a lot about remix tools. Today, the group membership reached 50 people, with 11 cards so far (not counting the ones I made).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A couple of things to notice: 1) People can “Share&# your videos on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and via E-mail with one-click. People can also copy and paste embed code for the video allowing them or you to post the video essentially anywhere on the Web. 2) People can leave comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improvie their safety and security on the Internet. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. Listening and engaging with people has been critical to any success I’ve achieved as a social media practitioner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. Planning Time Frames Differ: I kept reminding people that the strategy they came up didn't have to be finished or perfect. Tool mastery may belong to younger people, but. Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. No, but is more likely to happen is that people will use the work, use the license honestly, and improve the work. Here's a few (good) examples of how I have remixed other people's work or other people have remixed my work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." BlindConfidential serves as a commentary on issues regarding people with vision impairments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. This exercise is most appropriate for people who want to know the what/why versus the best practices of how to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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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. Maybe more people will share their materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some tools: Here's some remix flickr tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

These audio guides were inspired by a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their vacations so others can enjoy. This could help boost attendance and help break down the elitist or "its not for me" perception that may keep people from coming through the doors of the museum.

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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. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! People were extremely engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).   As I mentioned to the group,  it is always a work in progress and this Aloha Remix included some new ideas - the point system, the situation cards, and scenarios that were not all non-profit. Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.   Heck no! 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4) Tags: Presenting Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design slideshare webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

That's hard work, but worth it because good questions and gathering evidence usually guides us to better results. Gift of Time: Real Time Learning The problem with one-shot trainings is that you offer a lot of content and information, people get excited, and then they go back to the day-to-day reality of their busy work lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

It is a combination of content you create or that has been repurposed from your organization's web site, but also includes what people share. It is also content created by your supporters that they share through social outposts and that you re-purpose and remix back through other channels including your web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

I haven't gone to the trouble to specify how people should give credit. Although, if they link or use my name, my listening system pretty much catches it) Right now it is interesting to watch and observe how people attribute and look for additional insights or teachable moments. Tags: creativecommons. If so, please share.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

You also need to decide whether to use iPod-style folders, which some people seem to hate (I'm not using them). I also installed the Music Player (Remix). How do people get by without this? Tags: Mobile Communications. The trick is to put the Pre in Media Sync mode. Otherwise, it was pretty straightforward. Multitasking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

And, best of all, I had young people in the workshop - all age 17 and under - the generation dubbed as " Generation Z. It was a little challenging to remix a workshop that would be relevant to these different perspectives and age groups and have people leave the room having learned something. tags: nptech youth ).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. What do people like the most? You use the same ingredients and recipe, but you can reheat / remix the ingredients by creating a short and scannable piece with a few new insights mixed in. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. 54 people joined the group. 54 people joined the group. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined.

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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. The wiki is being released under a creative commons "by" license, the least restrictive license so that those who are training people from nonprofits are free to use or remix it for their needs.

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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." site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. What People Were Saying. " The year was 2005. The Iraq War was raging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

And, most importantly, designed for people to have fun doing it. (I'm For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. Tags: social media research snippets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

And while Lucy firmly believes that it is possible to measure, sometimes people measure the wrong thing. I happened to see a wonderful remix of this from Buzz Canuck called " The 27 Types of Twitter Conversations." Tags: metrics ROI twitter. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Or, the IT systems may be so locked down and controlled that didn't give people enough wiggle room for experimentation. Can our fans remix our logo or will legal get involved? Many organizations just beginning their social media strategy understand the value of listening as a first step. Tags: policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

They are in the process of building and growing a 'problem solving' network by convening thoughtful people inside and outside of EDF to review their thinking and then comment, critique, and contribute new information so they can improve their impact. Tags: transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development.

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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. . ask each member of the circle to pick two people, but don't tell them. When facilitator says go, everyone moves so that they are always equidistant between those two people who they chose. 1) Everybody is People.

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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. workshop, I spoke about tagging. I tried very hard to use Cambodian photos and images in the curriculum, but was not able to find something that represented tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice. This way people could attend two.

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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. feed where he is tagging resources here. If people start showing it all over the place on their own accord, then we?ll s possible the edit might be something only certain people have the backround to understand. net neutrality???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. I tend to bumble-bee around and listen in on selected conversations, but it is important for people to hear from their peers. Photo by James Leventhal. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. He said that things in the field happen in spaces between particles- the analogue is a conversation between people.

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