Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. Ning is also very flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Use a script: Write out your questions in advance and this keeps you on track. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. And, with a tiny camera and I need magnifying glasses to read the controls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

If you're making a screencast, and you end up having a vertical monopoly on the process (you write the script, do the filming, operate the mouse, do the editing, and produce it), you need to become a super learner. I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? Yes, we do need to provide the board with scripts, like a voicemail message, and some talking points, if they do have someone pick up the phone. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch.

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