Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

Sometimes it is very useful to have fun examples of new technology. With the help of Cambodian bloggers who shared some sound files of the khmer word for tooth and a description of tooth customs, we created a one-minute documentary about the Khmer Tooth Fairy: Remixing Cultural Customs Around Loosing a Tooth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." Everyone needed to sit down and look at exactly how they could make the best use of this new technology. There are examples (see below). There needs to be discussion.

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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! Here's ten steps towards Association 2.0 , a remix of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 nonprofit technology.

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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. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

. #1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t." This is a nonprofit remix of some of Chris Brogan's ideas and 50 ways to use social media organized by Groundswell objectives from Jeremiah Owyang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

Photo by Thiago. The diagnostic tool includes 8 different areas: membership, leadership, governance, purpose, strategy/structure, assessment, communications/technology, and resource management. What are the desired attributes for network effectiveness and the use of technology for "outward facing" work?

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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. And if you???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?"

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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. If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? 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 Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars. As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. As part of your work, you are assisting nonprofits with the use of technology on a daily basis. 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

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. 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.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. You can also remix other projects. As an adult, my profile shows my username, photo, city, state, and country. For kids, the profile only shows username, photo, and country (and most people use "sprites"--Scratch characters--for their photos).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

The photo above is the cubicle and workspace of Eric Williams who is a new media designer at the Walker Art Center and one of the staff bloggers who contributes to the Walker New Media Initiative Blog. Well, I for one can't wait until the other departments start blogging and will keep an eye on the teen program to remix Walker.

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APRIL 30, 2014

I’m an evangelist for technology, and there are likely dozens of ways to leverage technology to market, promote, register attendees, and raise funds for an event. Encourage your staff and volunteers to actively participate, and work in suggestions to follow, mention, like, re-tweet, take and share photos, or comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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MARCH 27, 2009

It wasn’t expensive to construct, it doesn’t rely on artifacts, and the interactives integrate technology in a low-key, magical way. The most striking thing about the space is the low light (which accounts for the poor quality of my photos). The results of this physical “remix” activity are beautiful, intricate posters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. But not many people to share with or remix. In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one. ha live blogging and video blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. After all, what's more fun than a birthday party? I donated $50 to the winner's charity. Psychological underpinning: Fun. Metric: Content created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

He points to John Deere’s magazine, the Furrow , which debuted in the 1930s as one of the first stellar examples. The post goes onto discuss barriers (acceptance, talent, and technology) and challenges (the capacity to create compelling content) and how to move past these. The name references a Martin Luther King quote.

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MAY 21, 2009

This guest post was written by Nicole Robert, a graduate student in the course I’m teaching at the University of Washington on social technology. The University of Washington Museology Graduate Program invited Nina up to Seattle to teach a course on using social technologies in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

David Cutler takes a photo of @pistachio live streaming "Where the Hell is Matt?" More than technology; may involve some old techniques 2.) Cadbury Gorilla Youtube video - had many, many remixes Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando - only told 7 people, but exposed 350,000,000 people. These are my notes.

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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. It lets you customize the color, size, format, number of photos, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Photo by 3E by found via FlickrLeech Britt Bravo encourages us to step away from the computer this Thanksgiving. Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities.

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