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The Community is the Curriculum: NTEN's Social Media and Nonprofits Project - Come Join the Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. We'll be taking DIY approach, remixing and/or pointing as much as possible. Use the module template as the framework for discussion and participation.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like how Holly Ross from NTEN handles her presence and her staff's presence -- and they are using Twitter for the organization. While there were many templates , it was helpful to have the conversation when pervasive Internet access in the workplace was a change. She says they simply follow their organization's core values.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the " The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike " Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto.

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Are You Content Creation Impaired? Here’s Some Tips and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared the framework on this wiki – and encouraged other nonprofit capacity builders to remix it. I was thrilled to see this version (although not a nonprofit specific version) for content marketing from a report by Altimeter. The name references a Martin Luther King quote. Here’s how they applied to content marketing: 1.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take a look at the NTEN Crowd Funding Campaign to raise money for scholarships to its annual conference. Making it easy for your champions to do the work is also important and you’ll find lots of templates and examples that you can remix on the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook and toolkits on the GivingTuesday site.

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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. There is a question in the template that asks them to identify a module they might take the lead on. Photo by Robert Francis. Right now we're up to 30 members in less than 30 days!