Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

It is also a good technique to explore the possibilities of new tools and techniques before investing more time and energy in something that isn't right for our organizations. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure. Many people have also remixed it.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2006

What I like about it: I like the technique of photo stills and music and the use of pans (hmm. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Imogen Heap Info For Remixers. my software doesn't do that). Here's the description from blip.tv

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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." t have to put all your cards on the table. Understand derived value and expectations of your long term social media strategy. Business is still business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog? This workshop was remixed from Associations 2.0 Photo by Mean Lux used with permission. What advice would you offer to Cambodian bloggers? Do you have an awesome example of a conversation on your blog or one that you've started elsewhere?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

. :) In a follow up email exchange, Ivan pointed me to some additional background on these techniques: Here's what Collactive wrote about our Globe action: [link] /success_ginet.html. My colleague, Francesco Santini, who remixed the games a fundraising game, but in Italian had included "Segnalo" which is an Italian Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. If you want to try some more intermediate or even advanced techniques for using social media, you can move from collecting third-party content to producing your own. Write down your successes. Write down your challenges. Rinse, repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Now that we have 5,000 Facebook friends, how we can get them to make a difference on the ground?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. I think after the first day's focus on strategy, people were very much interested in getting into the techniques, tactics, and tools. My debrief of the two-day workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. The skill set: Play ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. 1) Social Media Game : I have used the the social media game at over 50 trainings during the past four years and many others have re-purposed and remixed it too. Every 4-6 six months, I blow up the game and start from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

What are the techniques for conversational weaving? Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. How to prepare the next generation of moderators in OS communities? What is the best tool for very large communities? How well does the tool support the organic growth of the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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. Techniques and Tools. The name references a Martin Luther King quote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

More than technology; may involve some old techniques 2.) Cadbury Gorilla Youtube video - had many, many remixes Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando - only told 7 people, but exposed 350,000,000 people. It's a philosophy that incorporates a mix of new and old approaches and approaches. Extends beyond the marketing department 5.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Your initial experiments will be designed around trying out the tools and techniques. Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. As many nonprofit early adopters have learned, the secret to social media strategy success is careful, low-risk experimentation. Write down your successes. Write down your challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" The best technique I've seen was at the Global s Summit in London -- where there was a "Chat /IRC Advocate" in the room who monitored the chat/IRC and asked questions on behalf the chat paticipants and typed in the answers. This makes those on the IRC feel as those they've been "listened to."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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