Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

If you're interested in learning more about creating digital stories for your organization, check out the series of webinars we conducted that take you from developing the strategy , picking the right tools , and walking you through step-by-step instructions for how to create and share your organization's story with your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. 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. How do you do it?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I've come to the conclusion that the instructional approach that so many brand guidelines take to defining 'tone of voice' simply doesn't work when it comes to specifying how non-profits must use language," Mark says. Here's a blog post I wish I'd have written. Most direction is either unnecessary or confusing.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking. Tags: wearemedia. We've been able to track some of the remixes - that is those who kindly let us know about it and gave us attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations. Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. tags: nptech youth ). So, I changed delivery tactics and it worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. How Do Social Network Applications Incorporate the Ladder of Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. I'm going to continue to play and reflect and learn about technology tools and how they can be used to support nonprofits and to create instructional material. But maybe I can be fast and neater?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Friendship Circle, has a web contest landing page that provides instructions on how to vote and a direct link to the Facebook app page. . For example, Friendship Circle, had a rallied at a Piston's Game in Detroit (see above video) and organized 3,000 teens to play freeze tag on Facebook to rally the vote. For example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

So, I searched him out on some social networking sites to see if I might contact him directly. what I loosely call the documentary/instructional movie approach. See my tagging and widge t screencasts also sponsored by NTEN). So, I blogged it. I got some answers, but not from Jon. ve used in the past ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions. And, of course, if we are training less technically saavy users (like me) to use some tools that are not very intuitive, we need good how-to instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. The nature of your contact with your network or friends and how you build it - transactional versus relationship building? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. After logging in for the first time, they are instructed to change their temporary password. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. Careful about buying cheap software from unknown sources. They may be infected.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

His list of benefits include: Video is a powerful storytelling medium and has the potential to engage people and build relationship, particularly if using some of the video/social networking sites. May need to get some technical instructions on how to convert the file formats or use a service like hipcast.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Clear and easy application instructions. Founded by nonprofit professionals, Commongood Careers offers personalized, engaged services to job seekers and organizations throughout the hiring process as well as access to a wealth of knowledge about careers in the social sector. Screening Candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. Tags: goals. I want to improve my writing.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens more commonly use the Web to stay in touch with their pre-existing social groups than to join new communities based on content affinities or interests. As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. I’ve written before about ways social networking sites do this ; today, some concrete ideas for how museums might as well. Tags: participatory museum visitors. How could this happen?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. This is the most novel sharing tool I've seen on any social network. Everyone is instructed not to create usernames identical to their real names.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2010

Debra Askanase wrote a thought-provoking piece on Idealware called Tribe Leaders and Social Network Fundraising Thoughts – and, well, it got me thinking! And people are doing it – raising money, promoting campaigns, leveraging the power of online social networks to spread and distribute their message, appeal and influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki. NutshellMail : About a month or so ago, Manny Hernandez mentioned this free tool as a social media time saver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have found posts where brain researchers equate the how the brain functions to social networks. in her post " Your Brain on Facebook " Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn and Orkut are all popular and powerful social networking sites. But the granddaddy of all social networking sites — by a long shot — is your brain.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. Talk to the folks at Instructables. Tags: web2.0 I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Social Learning In Webinars. I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling.

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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. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 6: Leverage the power of social proofing.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Can they share your message and Ask with their personal and social networks? Be sure to give donors clear instructions on how to give and make it easy to pay through your website and by check. Do you have previous donors they can connect with personally to Ask for a donation? Plan a #GivingTuesday campaign.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Charlene and Josh describe companies that provide custom communities—the people and the closed social network to support them—for the bargain price of several hundred thousand dollars. You don’t need an internal social network (though that is an option). A community provides insights. How can you create the community?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I spent a lot of research time learning how designers in related fields solve the problems we had developing Operation Spy: how screenwriters craft plot twists, how game designers build instructions into the game, how theme park designers deliver consistent, high-impact multi-sensory experiences. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 Ideas design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Does the future of online fundraising lie in mobile social networks that have an easy built-in payment system for in-the-moment charitable giving of very small amounts by thousands and thousands of people? Tags: working wikily fundraising2.0 And, she has also challenged the notion of the size of a "small donation."

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Follow the on-screen instructions. Paste this code immediately before the tag.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. USAID should develop an online social networking community for young adults interested in international development. Tags: Influence Government.

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