Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

" which was about someone using one of my photos in flickr, but not asking permission (let alone offering payment). That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. gift economy,??? People who???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. The use of widget must be linked to the topic, content, or purpose of your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

Flickr Image by Sam Howzit. Images, visuals, videos, and infographics are being staples of nonprofit’s content strategy, especially for social channels. Flickr Creative Commons – Flickr is a photo site but it offers creative commons licensing and you can use it combined with keyword searches to find an image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Every person who clicks on a Google search result, rates a movie on Netflix, or adds a photo to Flickr improves the overall experience for subsequent users. The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens are perceived as an audience that is particularly disaffected and hard to reach, and institutions are continually seeking new techniques that might connect them to core content experiences. While some youth (and adults) may be seduced by sexy technology, is that really the reason you want people to engage with your content experiences?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. After all, you don’t have to have great content to get to a networked, social experience ( Twitter certainly proves that fact). Narratively, this makes sense. Surgeons act in order to make a diagnosis.’”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections. And now, on to the exciting bits. Sharing Authority.or

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Engagement Strategie s.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Flickr photo by Lenz Grimmer. Flickr Photo by Dave Cross. What content do they consume? You want to know what content your visitors are consuming and is this the content you want them to consume?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In the last six years, we’ve produced more than 75,000 posts that link to blogs and other citizen content for readers in over 20 languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Yet surprisingly, now 14 months after its release, 90% of the content still rings true. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. Social Media for Social Good: Table of Contents.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. PicMarked photos would make a good Flickr slideshow as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

application I employ, it's also a powerful and graceful example of the potential of disaggregated content. Google Homepage is a personalized landing page for the content that is most useful to you. On the left, you can see personal content: my Gmail inbox, the Google documents I'm working on, and my del.icio.us So what is it?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2007

experiences (which I was overlooking) is their flexibility in offering multiple ways to engage with the experience and the content. They are adding metadata to videos about their value and content, which may be for their own use (for future navigation) or for collective use (to add to the larger conversation about what’s good and what isn’t).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. sharpie.???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

wikipedia b. The goal was to educate people about the fact that Kleenex is made from virgin forests and uses no recycled content. Her conclusion was that there is a flattening of politics with over-saturation of media and so organizations should focus their energy and resources when and where you have good content. Amen Sister!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us and tag my links, I contribute content to a number of sites, including H20 Playlist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits. A post that uses the metaphor of UNIX permissions to explain open content. Today I Cried resigns !

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). In social media, the rule of thumb is 90-9-1 : 90% spectate, 9% comment or rate content, and 1% produce content. of Museum 2.0

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