NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

— My diligent research has proven that the word “viral” will come up within 42 seconds of talking with any nonprofit organization interested in marketing their cause online. I hope this insight serves you well, as it has for me, and that it aids you in your efforts to build stronger communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools. We even gave away WeAreMedia t-shirts to contributors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why would an organization even consider participating in something like this? Everyone involved in an organization and everyone online is, actually, human, and fun is a good thing. Why meme at all?

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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. It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. Here's a few (good) examples of how I have remixed other people's work or other people have remixed my work. Remix This Powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

That said, there are wonderful organizations working with State Governments to improve literacy and reading levels across the country such as Pratham and the Akshara Foundation and much progress has been made. An important ingredient to our strategy was building a community around our mission. Channels used: Twitter, Skype, Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? " I've been thinking about remixing that slide so it matches the framework I set up for WeAreMedia tactical modules. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in. Download it here. In A Museum?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. Maria Zaghi organized a virtual regional meetup as part of the G-Everyone Summit. Victoria, Canada: NetSquared Victoria: Remixing the Web for Social Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The later focused on how nonprofit could become social content creators, that how to effectively communicate the organization's story effectively through social media channels like blogs, video, podcasts, and photos. We also touched on user-generated content, inspiring others to tell your organization's story in their own words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate. It is making me wonder about how to remix this for a group where I have mostly beginners or don't have an expert at each table who is familiar with all the tools.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

One level is not better than another; it is just where the organization is at with respect to becoming a networked nonprofit and agile at using social media and other emerging technologies. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin. Often, a “Return on Investment” argument surfaces.

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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." They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. What Is Web 2.0?

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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. Organize the work by staff person, topic, channel, audience, or some other topic. Do what makes sense and flows logically for your organization. Reviews - books, movies, other organizations' strategies. Have more time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

To build an effective strategy, one needs to identify an objective that links to a communications goal or theory of change and, of course, identify the audience. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Inspiration may come from outside our silo and together we'll remix it. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Lisa Neal ) 2. Johannes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Environmental Defense Fund tackles the most serious environmental problems with four pronged approach: sound science , economic incentives , corporate partnerships , and getting the law right. (If you want to learn more about the organization, their CEO, Fred Krupp , is on Twitter and does his own tweets!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

SproutBuilder lets you build very sophisticated, multi-page widgets with media, analytics and more. Or have them sign up for a sprout account and remix it. Deborah Finn from Lolnptech notes, " They're organically grown !" Limited beta accounts are available to RWW readers via [link]. In minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections. This is a real POWER RELATIONSHIP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Using a futuristic body parts metaphor I might add) As part of this, we have to face the question of the degree of openness that a nonprofit organization will embrace. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations. Wait a minute! Isn’t that scandalous?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. Evolution, Creation and Extinction (of the organization) Organizations, political campaigns, newspapers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Or support an organization that does recycling. There was so much support for the idea, that he started an entire fundraising organization fueled by social media to support Jane Doe. And, yes they did

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. 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. What of all this “stuff” is truly relevant for me and my organization?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. We need to build experimentation into our work processes if we want our work to evolve over time. based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience. So, I was thinking about Nancy and the way she has welcomed new readers on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Since 2000, the Institute of International Education has worked on leadership development with the goal of building and sustaining networks of leaders who would improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health outcomes through improved services and policies. Self-organizing is difficult without communication.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

And, speaking frankly, events have become a popular means of community-building for virtually every flavor of nonprofit, corporate entity, and other institutions, and there seem to be a LOT of them these days. Even if your organization has clearly defined goals for each event, I’d challenge you to push them a bit further this year.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I know that as good, smart people working at good, smart organizations, we believe in the power of transparency. Even simple tools like Google Docs means your organization can report real time data, online, anytime. You need to build conversation into everything you can. But it's difficult to put the theory into practice. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Momentum is building. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Eric Leland is the first person to introduce themselves!

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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

MAY 2, 2008

If your organization is trying to figure out how to move your stakeholders from passive listeners to passionate participants, this is your golden opportunity. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change panel Sunday, March 14 at 03:30 PM – “Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.". ” 13.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. Why this target group?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. (And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. How well does the tool support the organic growth of the community? Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. Open Source Feminism - Click to Play.

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