Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. ” Yes! fitz350 #SMoP14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I've been designing and delivering technology trainings for nonprofit organizations for the past 15 years, I've tried to find fun ways for people to understand and feel comfortable with whatever technology. The remix epitomizes the era of social relationships (see Jeremiah Owyang's Five Eras of Social Web ).

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The winner gets $1 million and five finalists will receive $100,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

And, most importantly, designed for people to have fun doing it. (I'm 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. Design ways to surface these needs and create channels by which helpers can pitch in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Feel free to remix, modify, and share this exercise. This exercise helps point out how the different types of posts are received.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

This came just in the nick of time as I'm remixing my Web 2.0 Jonah has laid out a really good design process: The Heroes: Who are they? The other remix challenge is take the Social Media and remix for fundraising 2.0. Luckily, my colleague Francesco has remixed the game for fundraising, but it is in Italian!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Many people have also remixed it. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

So, fellow nonprofit communications professionals, I remixed David's scenario and replaced the word "corporate" with "nonprofit." As part of that a new logo design was created, changing from a concrete illustration of a seagull to a post modernist abstract version of a seagull. Business is still business.

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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. It offers very simple features and the interface is well designed. That's not gonna work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

What would you change, add, or remove if you were to remix this slide show for a nonprofit audience ? If you were doing a workshop, what icebreaker would you design to help people understand these basic concepts? It's a stellar example of good visual presentation and use of creative commons licensing.

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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. In the policy section, I included the issue of cyberbullying and privacy issues.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

They provide venues in which patrons and students can engage with, discuss, share, remix, and create information." The report designates libraries as "anchors" that can bring together public officials, businesses, schools, hospitals, cultural institutions, and individuals to come up with a community action plan.

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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 designed events and interactive exhibits on ten dollar budgets. No one will suffer if you put out a prototype--or two, or ten--before finalizing a design.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The project is designed to scale. While the drawing tools could be more intuitive, remixing a reference image is likely less scary for non-artists than other more involved ways to produce a frame.

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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." The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

The design of the Giving Challenge was such that any organization, even small grassroots organizations, could enter and even win. (I I know from first hand experience ) The design of the challenge leveled the playing field because the winners were based on the number of unique donors and any nonprofit could enter.

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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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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. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. In this post, a look at the intentional design choices that make ScratchR work. There is no private chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

It's the agency's campaign designed to inspire individuals across the country to help advance the common good through giving, advocating and volunteering in the areas of education, income and health. Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED ™ site and run your mouse over the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox this week is called " Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes." for Designers " from the Digital Web Magazine. As a result of the remixing aspects of Web 2.0, designed??? Categories: net2 , nptech , design " His points seem geared for "blog as web site.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. There are two aspects of Side Trip that really stand out: the immersive environment and the design of the interactives. The results of this physical “remix” activity are beautiful, intricate posters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

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. understand how to design and implement a social media experiment that enables listening, participation, content creation, or community building and is appropriate and realistic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

The photo above is the cubicle and workspace of Eric Williams who is a new media designer at the Walker Art Center and one of the staff bloggers who contributes to the Walker New Media Initiative Blog. Well, I for one can't wait until the other departments start blogging and will keep an eye on the teen program to remix Walker.

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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. 5 Make Your Content Easy To Remix This point is about user-generated content and they key to getting people to participate: Make it easy, fun, and simple. and what you can achieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I don't know if this possible - I have to find the right.swf to.avi converter and test it - but you could possibly edit and remix these clips into a screencast. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Tools for Good: Design Meets Technology in Service There's Gold in Those Archives: Long-long-tail filmmaking Remix Goes Mainstream: Making Mashups Pay Doing Good Online: Mobilizing Community Action Do Cool Kids Leave When The Suits Arrive The iPhone Volunteer: Can Mobile Devices Save Society?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Network the rest This is happening by design in some newer nonprofits. At the controls of the charity:water marketing dynamo is his new bride, who designs all their digital and print collateral, including their website. Will nonprofits in the future: 1. Identify the essential 2. foundation match days trending upward.)

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2009

Remixing the Museum Exhibition Room B Monday, March 16th 10:00 am - 11:00 am. Designing Change in America Room 8 Tuesday, March 17th 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm. Political Leadership in the Digital Era Room Hilton D Monday, March 16th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm. The Mobile Web for Good: Hype or Reality? Room 10 Tuesday, March 17th 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

There are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the " The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike " Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

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 How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

In retrospect, I designed the game more for a range people who work in a nonprofits - technical and mangerial - and this audience a mix of more technical and technology providers. Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. I pitched my Open Content game for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

There are four tiers of restriction possible with Creative Commons licenses: attribution (must credit author), noncommercial (can't make $$ off of reuse), no derivatives (can't cut, remix, adapt), and share alike (must redistribute with same license). I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license. In other words, this was a cheap project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

After taking one look at the syllabus, course faculty instructor Jennifer Aaker and invited guests , I couldn't resist designing a learning experience that integrated a social media birthday fundraising experiment aimed at helping support the work of the Sharing Foundation with "listen, learn, and adapt" and real-time tracking and reflection.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Designing an exhibit, the first questions are usually: “what is this about? Now, I and thirteen other students are creating an exhibit designed not around content goals but social action goals. In this design experiment, we are inviting individuals far and wide to give us advice. What’s the content? What’s the message?”

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