Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. People get excited about something — tweeting, setting up Google Reader, signing up for Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Flickr Photo from Wokka. So, fellow nonprofit communications professionals, I remixed David's scenario and replaced the word "corporate" with "nonprofit." " And I changed the word blogger to social networker or facebooker. Almost all the college students in the program are on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

For example, I share them on my welcome tab on my Facebook Page and on my LinkedIn profile. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4) NTEN’s WeAreMedia project has taken this a step further and uses Slideshare so trainers can remix each other’s decks. (7) 7) Fundraising.

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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). I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2007

Do you remix video files from the Internet? (2 Do you communicate with friends on Facebook? (2 Do you take photos with your phone? (1 Do you share your photos from your phone with your friends? (2 Have you made a web page for someone else? (2 Do you IM your friends? (1 Do you text your friends? (2 2 points).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." Sorry but the computer has got to go, it could be used to access Facebook ". There are examples (see below). There needs to be discussion. with "just for fun."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? " I've been thinking about remixing that slide so it matches the framework I set up for WeAreMedia tactical modules. Download it here. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions.

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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 Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) application in your Facebook account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory? of Wired Blog).

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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." Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. " The year was 2005. The Iraq War was raging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

One particular quote jumped out at me, "The Facebook generation wears their causes like the way they wear their favorite fashion." I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message.

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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. Fundraising 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. Especially in this economy. The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? Do you have a NpTech photo to caption and share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

Photo by Thiago. Now that we have 5,000 Facebook friends, how we can get them to make a difference on the ground? We created a network of fans who are remixing our context and spreading our message, how do we guide them effectively without controlling them? There is a tension with using social media to support your network.

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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. 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

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. An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. And, yes they did ! But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Photo by James Leventhal. They took live notes on their blog and invited others to participate , live tweeting the event, and engaging members on Facebook. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! Submitted by Michael Smith.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Perhaps your nonprofit has been growing its network on social media platforms and you have the opportunity to activate new supporters through your Facebook, Twitter, and social channels. Share photos or mini stories about people being helped by your project over the course of the campaign. And everyday until…. Until one day….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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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. Cites that I've visited - Facebook app. These are my notes. Got their name out there.

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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.

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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. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

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.

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