Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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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? Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? " I've been thinking about remixing that slide so it matches the framework I set up for WeAreMedia tactical modules. Download it here. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

Back in January for the LASA Conference, I did a session with David Wilcox on Social Media that include an introduction and the social media game. I done various remixes -- for example most recently for fundraising and a version for Filmmakers. The problem is that it isn't easy for people to remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. There was a quote in the comments that said, "Some companies are just not quite ready for true ???transparency???, and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Let me know in the comments below. This workshop was remixed from Associations 2.0 This workshop was remixed from Associations 2.0 Here's Step 2: Conversation Read someone's blog post and start a conversation: Advice: Before you leave a comment, ask yourself: What did they say well? Commenting by Alan Levine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Liz Strauss asks if crayons qualify as social media. Maybe if you were ask someone to draw pictures of social media or web 2.0 So that leads me to the NTEN's Be The Media Project ( name to change soon ) and Module 1 that we're building together and talking about this week. What does the Internet look like ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Chris Brogan offers 25 Ways Social Media Prepares You for the Downturn with some tips about being proactive as we anticipate what impact this crisis will have on our day-to-day lives. Jeremiah Owyang shares out four questions that you should answer about social media an economic downturn. I've remixed them with a nonprofit view point.

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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. However, based on observing nonprofits that have been effective - there are definitely some patterns of success for social media adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

In the comments , BethP asked a great question: How often do you come across situations where you feel like the CC license has been abused? As I responded in the comments, I run across a lot of abuse. Also, it is great to close the loop and have the opportunity to remix a remix. And how do you respond?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2007

The topic is on social media. I'm working on some new material and we're doing some small group exercises where participants will come up with some ideas about how to develop a social media strategy, identify metrics, and look at outcomes. It will involve the card deck, but remixing those now. Say hello in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

The article states: "Informed about the project last week, museum officials declined to reciprocate with their opinions, but also made no comments about instituting an iPod ban." I wondered how the institution views the project. You can download and listen to some of the podcasts on Dave's site and even contribute your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Nina Simon, Museum 2.0 AVA Opera Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Bonus Tip 11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I couldn't resist a remix of that old Mae West quip. She's encouraging those of us in the US to join the conversation by commenting at Nokia?????? She's encouraging those of us in the US to join the conversation by commenting at Nokia??????s so she is still sans n95. s blog and in their support forum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

They are in the process of building and growing a 'problem solving' network by convening thoughtful people inside and outside of EDF to review their thinking and then comment, critique, and contribute new information so they can improve their impact. Have a story, please sign up for a guest post here or let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Inside, they've hung many of Magritte's famous works, and, accompanying these works, they've placed dozens of contemporary sculptures and paintings that riff off of Magritte, making fun of him or paying homage to him or commenting on him. The anti remix message: The exhibition policy on photos: no photos are allowed in the exhibit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

My colleague, Ivan Boothe, who works with the Genocide Intervention Network and who is incredible smart about integrating social media into cause-related campaigns, pinged me about this reddit campaign. See the full alert here. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

" I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. Just need the attribution). Put Yourself on Youtube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved. Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. net neutrality???

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Here's the focus: Okay, so Chris prefers to say he's not an expert, but that he advises people on social media use. That doesn't change the fact that he's smart and savvy on the social media front. " asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

There was a tip in the comments on how to compress PPT slides. Here's Nick Noake's remix. I think she is wearing her purple pajamas, but not sure. Update: Nancy reports that she didn't wear the purple PJs and here PPT slides can be found here. Technorati Tags: nptech , onlinecommunities

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

So I complained in flickr , my blog and left a comment on the Tech Chronicles Blog. (I I was able to use little tool to remix the photo because of the license that Michelle used. which lets me remix it as long as attribute it, use the same license (argh, had to change my default), and not for commerical purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. Jon's comments on plone comments. We're hearing some early tweets about Netsquared on twitter.

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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. Check out Train for Humanity that weaves together getting fit, social media, and raising funds for charity. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. Alan Levine (cogdog blog) who submitted the winning entry left a comment in a post where I asked that same question. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?" " I pointed folks to Splashr after telling the story of how I learned about it during my Beth5.0

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. I'm one of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes. My marching orders were: pull out a crystal ball and gaze five, ten or even twenty years into the future to answer these questions: What role will social media play in the future for the nonprofit, social change sector? What do non-profits need to do to thrive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. Katya Andresen , Network for Good, offers some insights in the comments : We, too, are working on understanding how to find more superactivists and how to make the long tail of less active evangelists more engaged.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Your mileage may vary, depending on the event and its goals, but try looking at dimensions such as return attendees, new attendees, new constituents, reactivation, dollars raised pre-event and at-event, social media coverage, earned media coverage, Annual and Lifetime Value by attendee, etc., Get Rid of the Velvet Rope. Get Social.

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MARCH 11, 2009

New Media in the Marketing Mix for Nonprofits and Activists (clicks session) Day Stage Sunday, March 15th 4:30-5:30 Featuring Vinay Bhagat from Convio, Scott Goodstein, Holly Ross and Beth Kanter. My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man Room B Friday, March 13th 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Featuring @rachelannyes.

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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. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Some really good links to and about Social Media that nonprofit techies will love. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version.

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