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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

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Maybe he share some reflections in the comments - like for example - about the making of the video which is quite good in terms of production values, although not glossy campaign video. Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy?

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Content Curation Primer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation.

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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. Here's another one called " Meet Charlie."

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Should we put our social media tools away and have a conversation?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I especially liked this quote from Reuters Chief Executive, Tom Glocer: The technique (Live blogging) finally seems to have caught on in Davos. Guess you have to send a comment! At Netsquared last May Ethan Zuckerman spoke on a panel and blogged brilliantly at the same time - so he did have time for a chat in the corridor.

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My NTC Schedule in New Orleans Next Week and My Giant Insect Goal

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I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. Netsquared Meet up 5:00 PM. Bernard leaves hotel 12:30 Training Team works on site from 12-2 Jay Dedman Video Blogging Workshop -2-5.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. I've come across two personal fundraising campaigns that use the metaphor of wishes, pay it forward, or gift economy and are aggressively incorporating social media techniques into their strategies. You can post your wish as a comment. Big or small.it