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. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! With 50 groups in 20 countries, there’s probably a group nearby. Event Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. 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.

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JULY 31, 2012

Many more groups joined in on the fun, recording videos and posting to YouTube. For others, it means being aware of what the root of the meme is, why people are remaking and remixing the content, and how your community will respond. ” is one of the more famous). One of the more recent to join in is Sesame Street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Several groups who were in the top 100 (before Chase removed the vote tallies), were not on the final list, apparently disqualified. Or only allow a pre-selected group of organizations to participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. I invited folks to join the nptech group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Its the power of being about to work in a networked way with a group that isn't pre-defined. I was delighted to discover the above remix of Wesch's video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us Dance Remix" via Elsua who helped me get to the Cambodian bloggers conference back in 2007. What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So, I thought I'd take a stab at remixing it for nonprofits.  Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog. Lime Green:  Community Blog.   Strategy Tip :  You need a community manager and an engagement plan. Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities.

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Museum 2.0

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. Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. What do they mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

I tested three video hosts - blip.tv (which doesn't have online editing yet), YouTube (And YouTube Remix), and Jumpcut. YouTube's Testube has a remix option that uses Adobe video editing. The only problem is that your remixed video takes forever to get posted on YouTube. There is an active Cambodian community/groups there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. After each participant selected an experiment, we grouped them together and had them work together on setting it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

I met Dr. Mani via Roger Carr who was one of the core group of bloggers who I enlisted for a "blogger's campaign" component. I reached out to a core group of nonprofit bloggers in the beginning of the campaign, asking them to commit to writing 1 post or 1 post per week - whatever they could manage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. Peter Kim asked a group of social media experts in business for their predictions about social media for 2009. Non-profits will recognize the potential of bringing on these virtual community organizations, especially their ability to raise in tiny increments in a down economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

from advocacy groups to local community co-ops - work directly or indirectly to bring about financial systems reform. I've remixed them with a nonprofit view point. Photo by Vagamundo. Hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. They have offered a variety of responses to the recent events involving our financial systems.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. I "met" Mark Grimes ( Ned.com ) virtually on Omidyar Network and he was part of a group that proposed community support for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out.

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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 also had a vision to be a thriving, central gathering place for our community. We invited local artists and community groups to perform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. OpenPlans is a platform for social activism to bring groups together to promote causes, make plans, and get things done.

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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 24, 2009

This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. 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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. The afternoon also included a small group role play exercise. john, u think i???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's ten steps towards Association 2.0 , a remix of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! Tools To Change the World. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

So, my first steps into social media were logging onto a BBS for disability rights and support groups called Project Enable back in 1989 via Fidonet. I used the BBS to post questions asked by people in a local face-to-face support group who were not online. It was all about community. Twitter reminds me so much of that BBS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

The video incorporates some slides from Angela Byron's excellent presentation, " Women in Floss " which also speaks to the dark side of gender issues in FOSS communities. The presentation offers some good pointers to women in how to get involved in FOSS communities. What is the best tool for very large communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

NetSquared Community. Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.

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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. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community. And, yes they did ! Organizations like Kaboom help build them.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

You'll learn about Livestrong's community and Bike Hugger's blog, events like the Mobile Social, and the millions who follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter. Uprising Tide panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM - "Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements - Ready to put your tech community on the map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A. Audiences won't stick with nonprofits that don't make progress on issues and won't donate to groups that aren't having MAJOR impact. foundation match days trending upward.)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art. In 2008, a team led by MIT media researcher Henry Jenkins published a white paper entitled, "If it Doesn't Spread, It's Dead," which argues that media artifacts have greatest impact when consumers are able to pass on, reuse, adapt, and remix them.

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