Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May. The method is simple - they test their ideas, if it works they build on it and if it doesn't they remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

Mani Sivasubramanian is a heart surgeon using his Internet marketing business to fund heart surgery for under-privileged children in India. I set up a wiki that included lots of text and photos so they could remix as they wanted or not. 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

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I've remixed them with a nonprofit view point. " See also: The Market's Toll on Nonprofit Organizations by Alice Korngold A New Paradigm for CRS by Alice Korngold Arts Funding Shifting Gears from LAtimes Planning With Major Donors During a Down Economy by Amy Kincaid.

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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." 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

You can use this flash editor to create your own custom widget for fund raising - adding multimedia content. Or have them sign up for a sprout account and remix it. Think about the possibilities -- a spreadable multimedia story about why your cause is important and link to donate or to get more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible. So, what's my role in all of this? My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Jude Children’s Research Hospital Kids In Need Operation Gratitude The HandsOn Network/Points of Light Institute Funding will be allocated based on the percentage of votes each organization receives. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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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. When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? We Funding? What happens when fundraising meets social networking? What happens when fundraisings goes personal and connected versus organizational? I wonder if we need a new term to describe this approach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Giving Day Campaigns and Crowd Funding Campaigns Are Than Dollars Raised. To reap all benefits of crowd funding for your organization, you need a strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us How do we—innovators, entrepreneurs—know what's going to make real-world impact and where do we start? By Skylar Woodward.

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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. SpeedGranting is a tool for the Facebook community to help spread the good by getting funding for worthy projects. Also, I'm a visual learner.

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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. Check out Train for Humanity that weaves together getting fit, social media, and raising funds for charity. 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

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. 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. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A. . -- @ntenhross Yes, the institution as we know it is dead. The illusion of institution boundaries is crumbling - collaboration proves more useful. foundation match days trending upward.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution! is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria. You can find the columns here : The summaries are released on cc 2.5

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

I’m an evangelist for technology, and there are likely dozens of ways to leverage technology to market, promote, register attendees, and raise funds for an event. More on this in a future piece. High-Tech and Lo-Fi. Technology'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. 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. One suggestion is vikono.org, Swahili plural for insect antennae. Follow the links from here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Let's say you or even one of your supporters remixed a video that included a sample of copyrighted music, and this video was linked from your website. In addition, organizations might not realize that by receiving government funding, they can become a target for "bad actors" in media and politics. Future Threats.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. Of course, that audience is a long way from seeing such a report.

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