Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

tools for the good folks at NCNA. I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net , he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers. The manuals are organized by "read," "write," and "remix" which I just love.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. " The year was 2005.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. { But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. { But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. Also, it is great to close the loop and have the opportunity to remix a remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

and the Dot Organize 'Organizer's Toolcrib' , the idea being to find out just how easy or hard it would be to apply online tools to my everyday tasks - email, calendar, contacts, word processing, spreadsheets - that many other people in the non-profit sector also use to carry out everyday business tasks. tools I used here 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs.

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