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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. Meedan has set up a stream of curated tweets from the #jan25 hashtag and is translating them into both English/Arabic. In the meantime, if you want to help translate the tweets, instructions are here and here. It is a firehouse, uncurated list. How to contextualize it?

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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End-of-Year Event Fundraising

The Modern Nonprofit

For performances, your best bet is to use a live-streaming platform such as Twitch (free to use). On a live stream, your audience can interact publicly via a sidebar chat, but the main focus remains on the performance itself. Utilize Google Maps or Map My Run , and encourage participants to share theirs, too.

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What's Your Content Gathering and Filtering Workflow?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He was very kind enough to send me the instructions which I am posting for myself in case I need them again. This inspired Sonny Cloward to share a list of software he uses and is thinking about mapping out a workflow. Anyway, I noticed that Sonny had his "Read/Write" lists as RSS feeds going down the left side of his blog.

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End-of-Year Event Fundraising in 2021

The Modern Nonprofit

The key to making these exciting and accessible is to incorporate some form of direct mail ahead of time – you can mail craft supplies and instructions, bingo boards, or anything else your event will require. Tutoring Art can even host Virtual Painting Fundraisers & Instructionals on your organization’s behalf.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I want to improve my writing. I will look at benchmarking processes and analyzing benefits and values.

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