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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mary Joyce used a remix of the Social Media Game that I created with David Wilcox back in 2007 and has subsequently been used by many other nonprofit technology trainers. Mary’s remix simplified the tool selection to what was being taught during the TOT. It boils down to audience. Mary did not loose a beat.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Citizen journalism.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. I only did so because one of the prizes was a laptop and my current one is on its last legs. There's some execellent content there.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). 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. The Power of Social Learning: Online and Offline .

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. But not many people to share with or remix. In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one. ha live blogging and video blogging.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. Emergent collaboration takes place when your supporters remix your content and share with their friends. I've gotten into the habit of asking if there will be confidential information shared and what is or isn't bloggable.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. 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. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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