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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

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For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. On the card, write a short (preferably one sentence) social media update. Feel free to remix, modify, and share this exercise. More on Social Media.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was impressed with how Pratham Books has used social media to reach out to children in rural areas who are the " Bottom of the Pyramid.". He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Free E-Book: NetworkforGood Giving Day Planning Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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How To Develop a Social Media Plan in Five Easy Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found Mashable's How To Develop a Social Media Plan in Five Easy Steps Via Britt Bravo who forwarded me this link. Last week, we explored questions about how nonprofits go about planning their social media efforts and various resources are summarized here. Step 4: Go Offline. Step 1: Listen. Step 2: Prepare. Find people.

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Fundraising Meets Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? What happens when fundraisings goes personal and connected versus organizational? We Philanthropy?

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tested three video hosts - blip.tv (which doesn't have online editing yet), YouTube (And YouTube Remix), and Jumpcut. YouTube's Testube has a remix option that uses Adobe video editing. The only problem is that your remixed video takes forever to get posted on YouTube. That's not gonna work.