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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link."

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

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Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii - Live Blogging Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

   Gave an example of a blogger outreach program where they gave bloggers a product - solar powered batter recharger.    One of the bloggers got on CNN to talk about the product. Professionally produced content may be seen as less valuable because it isn't seen as authentic! 

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 20 practices.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

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Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Some of the largest web ventures are opening the doors to their content by giving savvy scripters direct access to the databases that drive these sites using programatic interfaces or APIs. What exciting mashups will our visitors create if we open up our collections data?

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