Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. Here's a few (good) examples of how I have remixed other people's work or other people have remixed my work. Remix This Powerpoint. The presentation itself is a remix of a remix. to Change The World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. How does designing (and implementing) a social media strategy easily support and enhance the overall communications mix? Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. Tags: remix scholar training materials.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An Animoto video created by the American Cancer Society is good example of how photos, music, and simple text can tell a story and convey a message of gratitude to donors and supporters: The first step is to create an account. Then click “Create Video&# and upload 15 photos for a 30-second video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

One important design concept for this project is creative commons licensing - which allowed the community to remix, reuse, or repurpose the content. We've been able to track some of the remixes - that is those who kindly let us know about it and gave us attribution. But having a conversation with your supporters is only half the job.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

You can also leverage participation in a meme to build connections and get new supporters. That said, having fun, gaining visibility, and making connections with new supporters happens only if you do it right. It shows some of the personality of your organization beyond the brick and mortar. 3 Guidelines for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Participants worked in teams to brainstorm a campaign to support the message in the film in their country. The environmental and recycling message was relevant to all in-country teams. Mary’s remix simplified the tool selection to what was being taught during the TOT. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns. It boils down to audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

I learned some much from them and Roxanne Darling - who was also instrumental in making this workshop happen and who gave an informative presentation about the power of social media to support tourism goals.  s time to rethink and remix everything you knew about marketing.   Hmm. s a new world and it???s Start today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Three years ago, I wrote a post about how Slideshare supports networked learning and networked professional development. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4) NTEN’s WeAreMedia project has taken this a step further and uses Slideshare so trainers can remix each other’s decks. (7)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? " I've been thinking about remixing that slide so it matches the framework I set up for WeAreMedia tactical modules. Download it here. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

The post makes the analogy to empowering your supporters to fundraise on your organization's behalf. When it comes to raising money online, empowering your network of supporters with the tools to fundraise for your NPO is like giving them Creative Commons access to your organization."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I couldn't resist a remix of that old Mae West quip. s blog and in their support forum. Well, I was very happy to see Rupert captured on video by David Wilcox offering up some great tips on using the N95. David and Rupert are lucky of course to be in the UK and didn't have the brick experience that Amy Gahran had.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Having a conversation with your supporters is part of the work. It is also content created by your supporters that they share through social outposts and that you re-purpose and remix back through other channels including your web site.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

The trick (provided by Palm tech support) was to set up Google as an exchange server (yes, the Pre needs to treat Gmail as a Microsoft Exchange server) using server = m.google.com and domain = google. I finally got sick of calling their tech support. I also installed the Music Player (Remix).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

There have been many remixes of online charity contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them. These contests are based on: Voting: Organizations need to rally their supporters and stakeholders to vote them online and spread the word.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. And with staff cuts and shrinking budgets, it is becoming more difficult to support digital literacy efforts. The Role of Schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

So, fellow nonprofit communications professionals, I remixed David's scenario and replaced the word "corporate" with "nonprofit." " I replaced the word "customer" with "client" or "stakeholder" or "audience" or "donor" or "supporter."

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. You use the same ingredients and recipe, but you can reheat / remix the ingredients by creating a short and scannable piece with a few new insights mixed in. It's okay to serve spaghetti with sauce from a jar or even frozen pizza now and then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. I think it's a great way to support a cause and a friend all in one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. I "met" Mark Grimes ( Ned.com ) virtually on Omidyar Network and he was part of a group that proposed community support for the Sharing Foundation. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

We can put shoulder-to-shoulder learning on steriods by integrating the use of social media to support learning. Many people have also remixed it. I also remixed the game recently to incorporate some of the latest tools such as mobile and location-based social networks. Learning Together Over Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

These organizations may need assistance developing a social media strategy to support short and long-term SMART objectives and to carefully identify the audience. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Now, I've been an ardent supporter of creative commons licensing and have changed my default licensing from to "BY" and use "BY-NC" when appropriate because, in the end, I want to set my content free! I was able to use little tool to remix the photo because of the license that Michelle used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The manuals are organized by "read," "write," and "remix" which I just love. At havemoneywillvlog.com, we are considering giving support to this software project to provide free video editing software to videobloggers in other countries. The developer livers in Brazil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Then have your supporters spread it. Or have them sign up for a sprout account and remix it. Think about the possibilities -- a spreadable multimedia story about why your cause is important and link to donate or to get more information. My widget is sort of lame because I'm tired right now. but really it was so easy to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Can our fans remix our logo or will legal get involved? Many organizations just beginning their social media strategy understand the value of listening as a first step. I had noticed that there were over 300 groups in Facebook for SurfRider, many remixing the official logo. Can every on staff be a spokesperson?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

It doesn't stop at integrating social media into the external communications plan for the national entity, but includes training and support for local united ways to implement a social media strategy in their local communities. This a terrific example of in working in networked way.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Last month, I turned my blog pink in support of Breast Cancer and in September, I put on a red t-shirt. to support the monks in Burma. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign and gave some money too. But that's not all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them. (I know from first hand experience ) The design of the challenge leveled the playing field because the winners were based on the number of unique donors and any nonprofit could enter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The best way to think of it as taking a little chunk of your marketing plan that supports your marketing goals, but incorporates social media. You don’t want to create an extra program or extra work, it has to support your existing marketing goals. and what you can achieve. The key benefit is that drives traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

There is a tension with using social media to support your network. Here's a stab: Network use of social media tools and strategies supports objectives in external communications plan. The latter, the area of my core expertise, is used for engagement, support, fundraising, outreach, and taking action. Photo by Thiago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. Or support an organization that does recycling. And, yes they did ! in honor of his late mother.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. You can also remix other projects. It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. but still, a programming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics. We had space for 25 organizations out of the 100 that applied. Here's a few thoughts. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Let's discuss: join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game. Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns.

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