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Reflections on the Social Media Lab Workshop

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Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

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Remix this Powerpoint. If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. (If

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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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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The Art of Aligning Social Media Strategy With Communications Strategy

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Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. Some reflections I had on the materials: Situation: This is the description of the organization or network the same group is developing a strategy for. Right now the cards have questions and this group was asking for experiential advice on the cards.

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Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing Webinar and Action Learning Exercise I'm

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Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The reflection exercise can be found here. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here.

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And the winner is. and some reflections on user-generated content

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Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

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I happened to see a wonderful remix of this from Buzz Canuck called " The 27 Types of Twitter Conversations." One of my favorite metrics geeks, Jim Sterne , has very advice on " How To Measure Engagement On Twitter." There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. So, how might this work? (1)

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