Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Instead of just writing on your wall, or giving you something you don't need, what if they had a chance to help a cause you believe in? The application helps you promote your campaign. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better. Take for example the Capital Area Food Bank where staff members are active on Twitter, each has their individual profile on Twitter. Do you think your boss has a right to censor your social media activity? .

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. It's not just a personal activity; it's an opportunity to be part of something. The first activity is creative, the second editorial. The project is designed to scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. from Matt Goddard If you are new to social media, in terms of the tools and technology or how to integrate them into your product release strategy, consider the following activities. Write down your successes. Write down your challenges. Rinse, repeat.

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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?

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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. tools, this would have worked as a culminating activity. Activity geared to just becoming familiar with the tools and concepts. If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

"We're using social media because the technology is here and it's helpful, but if it weren't here, we'd make a newsletter and Xerox it for everyone we know. Here's ten steps towards Association 2.0 , a remix of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 It's called saidia.org It's Swahili and means help.

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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. My debrief of the two-day workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it! They have a volunteer " tagger " who is tagging materials and they've asked folks to help him. I need to look a little closer, but I think there is already a comunity there - through their forums and other activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

As an activist and evangelist for Creative Commons' values and tools, I want to do my part in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December. But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Organizations like Kaboom help build them. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. These experienced creators already have a relationship with Scratch, and ScratchR was originally created to help these people connect with each other and build more sophisticated projects together. You can also remix other projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I don't know if this possible - I have to find the right.swf to.avi converter and test it - but you could possibly edit and remix these clips into a screencast. Cogdogblog points to the DogPeeBook -- (laughing helps reduce stress.) Shout if you need a hand with what to do, happy to help! Also, I'm a visual learner. And voila!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. Emergent collaboration takes place when your supporters remix your content and share with their friends. ask each member of the circle to pick two people, but don't tell them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. and discovery. Simulation ??? Multitasking ???

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Even if you don’t have historic data, setting the stage for a deeper and more robust analysis of performance will help you understand the outcomes of the event in a richer and more actionable way, set performance expectations for future events, and provide a baseline for demonstrating results over time. Announcing a hashtag (ex.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

And for anyone attending the event and looking for some insight into how to get in on the philanthropic and social advocacy action, here are some of my recommendations on sessions, events and activities that have gold stars next to them on my personal event agenda. ” 13. But it wasn't here to enterain, no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

a lot, so it is really helpful to have a peek the annual series of Horizon Reports that have also flowed out of NMC's Emerging Technologies initiative. Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). It encompasses more than just the transactional act of making a donation, it includes asking for the help of influential stakeholders to create online social fundraisers and reach out to their networks. What metrics will you use to measure success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I shared the framework on this wiki – and encouraged other nonprofit capacity builders to remix it. I was thrilled to see this version (although not a nonprofit specific version) for content marketing from a report by Altimeter. Here’s how they applied to content marketing: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." Dave wrote about levels of responsibility and in my mind I connected it to the activism ladders of engagement for activism. Levels of Participation. An Individual Takes Leadership.

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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. You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. What questions will you ask to generate insights?

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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. These program notes will help you implement some of the ideas presented in the screencast. Can help you extend or enhance the conversation on your blog.

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