Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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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. Also, the game is licensed under creative commons - which means folks are welcomed to use as long as share and share like (with attribution). In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The reason I am excited about this project is because it represents a new area of inquiry for me as well as a chance to deepen my learning in the topics that I've been writing about here on this blog for years. We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

For today, we'll be working on the specific learning objective: To understand the basic concepts and principles of social media I spent a bit of time searching through slide shows on Slideshare for a good primer. It's a stellar example of good visual presentation and use of creative commons licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

" I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. Just need the attribution). Tap the Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Environmental Defense Fund tackles the most serious environmental problems with four pronged approach: sound science , economic incentives , corporate partnerships , and getting the law right. (If you want to learn more about the organization, their CEO, Fred Krupp , is on Twitter and does his own tweets!)

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

There have been several studies that show that creating a personal record of an experience and reviewing it later increases learning and retention of content. And one final thought on this topic: I've been surprised to learn that some museums have restrictive photo policies and aren't sure why. There are two parts to this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Although I was pretty exhausted by Saturday, I learned a great deal. Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. We didn't play the game, but we had a great discussion about the creative commons licensing and the issues the notion of open content surfaces. or similar) licensing. Penguin Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session. There is a lot nonprofits can learn from this project which just launched. is an attitude , not a download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Some new marketing learnings based on the marketing for the new marketing summit via Project Dog Food: 1.) You must unlearned what you learned to be successful with this marketing. Cadbury Gorilla Youtube video - had many, many remixes Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando - only told 7 people, but exposed 350,000,000 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. experimentation and learning.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Many expressed interest in aligning together as public spaces dedicated to informal learning, sharing research and a use case based on an alternative to rather than component of formal education. I would prefer us to try to “learn what the community does, map how we could improve or support what they do, and fill in the white space.”

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