Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

Sharing memories – stories, pictures – after the party keeps the good feeling going, and makes everyone want to attend next year. Build A Communication Plan for Champions: It is important, especially in an age of media clutter, to encourage your champions to share your messages about the Giving Day.

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MARCH 11, 2012

It’s a fairly simple idea. Through the Start Something Web Series they’re shedding light on the impact that Bigs have on Littles by telling their story through quality video they publish on their YouTube channel, share on their website and talk about on Facebook. Hopefully you caught it. If not, go check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The point is that we learn best by teaching what we have learned and interacting with others to share ideas and work through problems. E-learning will make it less costly and more feasible for organizations to codify, demonstrate, and share best practices among busy staff members across locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Here's why: A way to crowd source ideas. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. Or, it might open the door for a teachable moment about Creative Commons and the share economy. Remix This Powerpoint. The presentation itself is a remix of a remix.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? For others, it means being aware of what the root of the meme is, why people are remaking and remixing the content, and how your community will respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We facilitated over 200 nonprofit techies ( editoral advisory group , subject matter experts , and wiki members ) who contributed ideas, writing, copy-editing, lesson plans, presentations , and knowledge to build an impressive social media knowledge resource for the community. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

These are my links for January 6th through January 8th: The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media | Changemakers - "Join We Media and Ashoka’s Changemakers in the search to find the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. Check out some great designs that could get you thinking!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. The above presentation is a remix of a remix of a remix. Got to share my Radian 6 dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! . Lots of great ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

I kicked off the session by reciting my favorite poem, Joyce Kilmer’s Trees and shared the rules of audience interaction and format in Iambic pentameter. Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. SMOP14 panel sharing their fave. The campaign leveraged nostalgia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy. Twitter : A space where we can engage with the community, share ideas, ask for help, get feedback, listen to complaints, participate and mobilize people to help us with our vision of ‘a book in every child’s hand’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

  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.   In addition, Chris Heuer had a fantastic idea - to have a scrabble like board where people could lay all the cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

It is a combination of content you create or that has been repurposed from your organization's web site, but also includes what people share. It is also content created by your supporters that they share through social outposts and that you re-purpose and remix back through other channels including your web site. List of tasks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

They are going to participate in the next round , "The Big Idea" where the 100 charities share their big idea for changing the world and get votes. The winner gets $1 million and five finalists will receive $100,000. As of this writing, 1,027,398 people joined Chase’s fan page to cast votes for their favorite charities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

I done various remixes -- for example most recently for fundraising and a version for Filmmakers. A number of o ther folks have remixed the game -- and it's been translated into different languages too. Ihad set up a wiki with the idea of collecting the remixes and incorporating some templates or make it easier for folks to remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

The tool and the ideas behind the post post generated some good discussion, great questions, and additional blog posts that I'd like to explore further. She relays a story about how Leonardo Da Vinci freely shared his art work, but closely guarded his scienctific inventions. If so, please share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Flickr Photo Remix Cards are all wonderful so I'm going to start blogging them!! I love the creativity and I'm learning a lot about remix tools. I'm thinking of doing a slide share show. Ideas welcome! This one is from Mike. It is generated by www.deviousgelatin.com/montager using the flickr tag 'beth5.0'.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Your nonprofit is thriving and bursting with activity that should be shared with the world through any and every marketing channel available. Miller's idea was that you don't have to be Martha Stuart or Julia Child to put together an enticingly delicious pre sentation of your nonprofit. Share it in different pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The idea is that participants would learn some of the best practices for these social media tactics and then design and implement an experiment and share their results with one another. Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure.

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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. Then have full room discussion and have them share "Three Things About Us".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

I handed them crayons and paper and asked them to draw a picture of the Internet and then share with someone else. What would you change, add, or remove if you were to remix this slide show for a nonprofit audience ? What do you think are the best of the best resources that cover the basic ideas of social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2007

The Sharing Foundation is one of the projects on Global Giving and now I'm toying with the idea of remixing my of Sharing Foundation videos. GlobalGiving: Prizes will be distributed July 9-July 13, 2007. There are some cash prizes. You can use it for yourself or give to the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

As Witzel observes, our strategy for scaling the network includes sharing of the learnings, modeling transparent behavior ourselves, collecting and diseminating results, trainings, and scaling the fellows programs who can infiltrate companies to acquire a green lens. The Innovation program shared a draft of its elevator pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. This idea came to me from Twitter. I hope they share a case study about all this! #3. More information here. Is there a creative thinking challenge? and what you can achieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Inspiration may come from outside our silo and together we'll remix it. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? I wonder if they got the idea from you last year! to support the Sharing Foundation.

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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. Visitors' interactions allow them both to personalize their museum experiences and to engage with other visitors through their shared interests.

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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 idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. What Is Web 2.0?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Putting the Networked Nonprofit ideas into practice and using social media and other emerging technologies will only be success if nonprofits take small, incremental and strategic steps. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

(I voted for the Red Cross in honor my colleague Wendy Harman) Ever since the first online competition launched in December 2006 by Network for Good and Yahoo (ahem, I came in first for my charity, the Sharing Foundation ), online contests have been a popular way for corporations, Web 2.0 companies, and even foundations to give away money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This role is more about providing London's non-profit sector with a for ICT issues and getting policy-makers and funders to recognise that investing in the ICT of non-profit organisations can actually achieve lots of positives - transforming organisations to work smarter and better, better collaboration and information sharing, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

One of her entries, " The Softer Side of Social Media " shares the story of how a friend set up an email account for her niece to email the tooth fairy. when introducing it to people -- it made want to play with the idea -- social media and the tooth fairy. Sometimes it is very useful to have fun examples of new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. Information-sharing tools are great, but they don't magically make this happen. Tools To Change the World.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Feel free to share your answers in the comments. I asked Heather for the class playlist, so I could share it with you. It’s about making ideas happen. A big thanks to everyone who shared the format and number of sessions they would find the most helpful. Below are my quick answers to the prompts for December 11-16.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. So, yes, please vote for these panels, but .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. 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

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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