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OCTOBER 20, 2007

I think a lot of activists know that there are all kinds of social web tools available to them, but they aren't sure how to find them, or use them, and are intimidated by the technology. Here are four steps to ease you into using the social web for social change. PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0" Networking for Change. and OurMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2009

Now the Smithsonian Institution, in a flash of cloud like behavior , is coming to life on the social web. The Smithsonian Institution is in the midst of a huge strategic planning effort, with new media as one of the focal points for its future. are they reaching out to new media professionals as well as others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. I might also add an understanding of " Social Media Optimization."

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He gave an excellent over of the vlogging, web video, do-it-yourself versus hire a professional, and some references to equipment and software. " (read the concept here ) (Lloyd, BTW, when things get less crazy busy, I'm working up a post called " One Woman Social Media Empire ").

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Jonny Goldstein has been exploring the medium of social media talk shows and Steve Garfield will his guest. Here's the description: Come chat with Steve Garfield, emerging auteur filmmaker, the Paul Revere of Videoblogging, founder of Boston Media Makers, nation trotting evangelist of DIY media this Wednesday on Jonny???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Next Saturday in NYC is the NYC Grassroots Media Conference and I can't go as I'll attending the Beyond Broadcast Conference in Cambridge. (No inexpensive digital cameras and the power of web distribution, we can now. help groups around the world to record, distribute, and archive stories from. their daily life. Check it out here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger which has only intensified with the financial crisis. Take a quick look around their homebase Web site to easily see their creative use of social media, from bloggers campaigns to Wall Against Hunger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 25, 2006

On Tuesday, May 30th at 4pm PDT, Micki Krimmel , the Director of Internet Outreach for Participant Productions , will be speaking about, "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth , ClimateCrisis and More Tales from Participate.net " as part of NetSquared's remote conference.

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

For a training in Web design that designed about 7-8 years ago, I created a design exercise called " Make Over the Ugly Barbie Web Site " 5. This was one of my first vlog posts from like over a year ago and it's so terrible that it is humorous. It was a vlog forum where you could post Q&A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Jimenez was randomly chosen out of 12,000 entries that visited the Case Foundation’s web site and made a personal commitment by finishing the sentence in 250-characters or less, “Change Begins With Me, I commit to…” His submission was, “To empower. To motivate.

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JUNE 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

All this week for NTEN's WeAreMedia project, we've been focusing on the tools that let nonprofits share their story social media style!   Other Photo Sharing Sites:   Read/Write Web did a round up of other photo sharing sites.      WHich ones have nonprofits been using?

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JUNE 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements. Vlog and Blog Raising Lost in Light is a videoblog about small gauge filmmaking featuring home movies, work by artists, articles by preservationists and film scholars, video tutorials and other film gems. by Simon Pavitt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Our wedding was before the days when people created wedding blogs or wedding web sites or engagement moment sharing vlog posts -- and even a little before video taping was common. So, I decided to mark the Anniversary in flickr , blog post, and this vlog post. Since I'm learning, it's also part of learning journal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

At age six months, he could sit on my lap while I updated web sites. fast forward six years and he is sitting next to me and I'm explaining blogs to him and watching vlogs together. The other day, I received a request from an academic, Jackie Marsh, whose research focuses on the role of popular culture, media. in the practice.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Since I dabbled a bit in podcasting before I plunged into vlogging, I got to pick his brains on his techniques, process, and tools. He spends a lot of time researching the Web to find ideas for stories and then will has a formal list of questions he uses that he makes available in advance. The show list is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

As the Internet changed dramatically with the launch of the Web, the content of my work did too -- although the themes and concepts remained the same. into gaining web social (networking) skills. into gaining web social (networking) skills. Web Manager. Web Goddess. Social media coach? Onlne Facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

I'm using web/phone conference software called "Ready/Talk" which (thank god) offers some interactive features, like chat and handing control of presentation to someone else's desktop. Kristiansen who is a self-proclaimed Norwegian media juggler. chat going on while a phone discussion).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the bookmarking and search capabilities of web browser software. They are created by geeky programmer types who hate extra keystrokes, are freely distributed on the web and (most of the time) can be easily installed and used in your browser. I hope you get a good laugh. Here's the script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

(Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ). He gave a history of his work with the Catalogue for Philthanthropy -- which is much better described on their web site than in my notes. The theme of NTC Boston2005 was "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2006

" She has written a couple of insightful posts recently on Web 2.0 , tagging , social bookmarking , and blogging (vlogging and podcasting.). " A pretty cool link to a list of social bookmarking sites Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting "Blogging takes time, focus, and energy from someone or someones.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2006

Ha-Hoa Dang, the Web Assistant for EMILY's List wrote me last week to let me know that EMILY's List, a political network for pro-choice Democratic women, has partnered with the September Fund , a 527 group set up by former Clinton advisor Harold M. You can watch it with Quicktime or Windows Media here , or watch it on YouTube.

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