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." site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup.

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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. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. 54 people joined the group. 54 people joined the group.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

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. It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. What make Scratch users come to the online community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

I set up a wiki that included lots of text and photos so they could remix as they wanted or not. I found bloggers from other communities and created posts that might be relevant. I let a lot of it evolve from the community. I included a sign up sheet too. I also used to document links to their posts as we went along.

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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. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo). And I've already gotten two early gifts and wanted to say thank you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Photo by Vagamundo. 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. 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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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. 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. It's that time of year again. Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it! Let's examine this as a community-driven tagging project. There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My My personal favorite photo is here ). I'd describe it as a "community builder" position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Photo of Iavor Ivanov , Web Experience, United Way (national) Meet Iavor Ivanov, the Director of Web Experience for the United Way (National). Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt? Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map. What you'll discover is that LIVE UNITED ™ is more than a slogan on a T-Shirt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? My wife, Deepa, really got me started on the notion of gift economies within her online artistic community.

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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. I tried very hard to use Cambodian photos and images in the curriculum, but was not able to find something that represented tagging. Photos from Thomas Wanhaff. During the Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This is a nonprofit remix of some of Chris Brogan's ideas and 50 ways to use social media organized by Groundswell objectives from Jeremiah Owyang. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. and what you can achieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Here's ten steps towards Association 2.0 , a remix of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago.

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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. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr!

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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. Momentum is building. without leaving the virtual world!

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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. 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.

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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

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. It was all about community.

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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 sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation?

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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. Photo by James Leventhal. 1) Social Media Game : I have used the the social media game at over 50 trainings during the past four years and many others have re-purposed and remixed it too. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Most of the stunning visuals are shot by Scott himself (he says if anyone shoots 1,000 photos, at least one will be a powerful image). Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A. In case you were wondering, all of their marketing is done in house.

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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. Have a staff member dedicated to monitoring and managing social conversations during the event. Announcing a hashtag (ex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I shared the framework on this wiki – and encouraged other nonprofit capacity builders to remix it. I was thrilled to see this version (although not a nonprofit specific version) for content marketing from a report by Altimeter. Have Your Community Create Content or Invite Guests. Creating Content for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The Local Story: This is about a specific local community and how your project serves them. Now matter which type of story you choose to tell or what medium you use (video, text, photos), here is a simple storytelling structure you can use to create the first draft of your story: Once upon a time…. And everyday until…. Until one day….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

Photo by Robert Francis. I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. He has a context for what may work and what may not for a community building process for a new media curriculum. 3) Joins the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

David Cutler takes a photo of @pistachio live streaming "Where the Hell is Matt?" Cadbury Gorilla Youtube video - had many, many remixes Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando - only told 7 people, but exposed 350,000,000 people. Put down roots, become part of the community. These are my notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Photo by 3E by found via FlickrLeech Britt Bravo encourages us to step away from the computer this Thanksgiving. Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. Every time you post a photo on Flickr, you give its owner, Yahoo!, the right to use that photo however they see fit. Every Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. Social Media Fundraising As Part of A Multi-Channel Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

I want to reshare this post with you today for two reasons: We are still grappling with fears of losing control as we open up organizations to new participants and new communities. Around the world, we see that participation is a meaningful entrypoint for new communities. New communities don't just want to consume. Every Web 2.0

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