Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

At the conference, I attended a session on video blogging with Ryanne Hodson and was inspired to go play in a vlog sandbox. I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits. Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2006

The fifth Big Vision podcast is an interview with my friend Abby Rosenheck, the co-founder and Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , an urban school gardening program. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the "Big Vision podcast" link above, or by listening on the Gcast player in the right-hand column of this blog, or on iTunes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! Podcasts , PodcastDirectory.com , Odeo , Podcast Alley , Podcast.net , and Podcast Pickle.

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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. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Her additional points about the use of Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation spurred some additional reflections (boy I feel a writely document coming on.) This was done quite successfully at netsquared conference. I would add that I loved the way that netsquared did the video posts from the conference.

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