Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. One important design concept for this project is creative commons licensing - which allowed the community to remix, reuse, or repurpose the content. You also need social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I learned a lot in terms of the content but also as a facilitator. Point System: I need to rethink the point system based on the changes I've made the social media framework, especially some of the assumptions about social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. You can also tags. For some big picture ideas on user generated content , see this resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

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. My content on Slideshare can easily be published here on my blog or by anyone else anyplace else! I don’t have be a networked silo! (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Open Content for Nonprofits?

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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. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some tools: Here's some remix flickr tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Social media is all about the linkages to people versus content and the ability to self-organize and co-creative. 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

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. Also, it is great to close the loop and have the opportunity to remix a remix. Tags: creativecommons.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But finding the staff time and creativity to come up with fresh, original content for every channel on a regular basis can be exhausting. Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. Focus on creating great marketing content. When writing content, go from cakes to cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

tags: hawaii socialmediaclub ).   As I mentioned to the group,  it is always a work in progress and this Aloha Remix included some new ideas - the point system, the situation cards, and scenarios that were not all non-profit. s time to rethink and remix everything you knew about marketing.   Hmm. Start today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. For example, emoticons and gifts, or icons to be used and exchanged with friends or attached to messages and content. Tags: social media research snippets.

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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." Most of the content was (and is) user generated. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Google Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

That's hard work, but worth it because good questions and gathering evidence usually guides us to better results. Gift of Time: Real Time Learning The problem with one-shot trainings is that you offer a lot of content and information, people get excited, and then they go back to the day-to-day reality of their busy work lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Iavor points out that training (in the form of Webinars to be delivered by Livingston Communications ) and content kits are critical. Tags: social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The wiki is being released under a creative commons "by" license, the least restrictive license so that those who are training people from nonprofits are free to use or remix it for their needs. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was a little challenging to remix a workshop that would be relevant to these different perspectives and age groups and have people leave the room having learned something. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. tags: nptech youth ). I revised a lot of the content to match the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Or else the perception of "wasted time" or fear that employees will play rather than work or view inappropriate content at work. Can our fans remix our logo or will legal get involved? Many organizations just beginning their social media strategy understand the value of listening as a first step. Tags: policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). 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. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. 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. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. Set up a Facebook Page.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Remixing the content: Government content can't be copyrighted, so you're free to grab and reuse any government created content on the site. But they've also made sure that third-party content is licensed through Creative Commons. Tags: NPTech APIs data NTEN transparency Obama social media recovery.gov.

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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. Used fewer cards and focused on the content of the half-hour web2.0 workshop, I spoke about tagging. After the workshop, John Weeks created a Khmer image for tagging using Angkun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Eugene said not to focus on the content. It keeps the connections going.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. You can also remix other projects. Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. feed where he is tagging resources here. And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content). (And And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content). net neutrality???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

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. Give the new version of the people cards a joyful funeral if doing the game as part of the social media lab and there isn't enough time to cover the content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Visitors may make inappropriate gestures in photos with museum content, thus distorting institutional values and intent. There have been several studies that show that creating a personal record of an experience and reviewing it later increases learning and retention of content. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

There are stacks of graphics, cut-out reproductions from the real rock posters on display next door, which visitors can place under the transparencies to arrange and remix into poster designs of their own choosing. The results of this physical “remix” activity are beautiful, intricate posters. Projects design participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. I want everyone to be able to use the content and make derivative works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 3: Socialize your content with compelling stories that inspire people to donate. You will probably get lots of great ideas and see lots of great examples of content generated by your champions and donors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

What’s the content? Now, I and thirteen other students are creating an exhibit designed not around content goals but social action goals. In addition to the content collected online, the physical installation will feature an advice-giving booth where “expert” advice-givers will volunteer to share their knowledge. June 6 to Mon.

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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. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals. Group 2: Content.

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