Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. Lina offers a concise definition of Transmedia Storytelling , a concept and term coined by Henry Jenkins. It’s likely time to add storytelling to the task list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

After a ten minute break, participants will have the option of joining one of four break out sessions: Listening/Engaging; Storytelling; Generating Buzz; Online Networking. Experience a variety of social web tools that are essential in listening/engaging, storytelling, generating buzz, and online networking. REGISTER HERE!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Here are some more resources for implementing digital tools and campaigns into your organization: TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki. TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Challenge. Eight Secrets of Effective Online Networking. A Few Good Blogging Tools.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Our annual Digital Storytelling Challenge , Restart Romania , and NetSquared challenges are just a few examples of how we get our community members engaged at multiple levels. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Tweet them to @TechSoup and include the hashtag #commbuild.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

We've had some fantastic conversations and brainstorming on the wiki about the strategic issues, including how to know if social media is a good fit for your organization , strategy mapping , meeting resistance , storytelling , engagement skills , and ROI. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia. that will take place in December.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Campaign page, Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , and YouTube page offer numerous how-to resources and examples of effective nonprofit videos. Digital Storytelling Methods: Time and Resources Needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

The theme was about storytelling and one of the cool things we did was create a storytelling assessment rubric. Bill is an incredible storyteller and that has been the key to his fundraising success. She has also shared her slides and wiki here. I also include their blog urls in the accompanying wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. Prizes will offered too!)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #1: Voice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

These words included things like: open, mutuality, learning, not “techie,&# not about CTX, knowledge sharing and storytelling (and more). storytelling, not tech forum q/a but explanation of why and how. What already exists? In the case of CTX, the sweet spot had key words like: open. peer to peer. questions answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). Conference attendees will be asked to download and join the Emergency Data Society. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. What is content curation and why should your organization try it? Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The photo above is of Rob Stuart in 1997 at a meeting in Montana to create a plan at what eventually became NTEN – thoughtfully documented in photos by Gavin Clabaugh and included in the nptech history wiki. Rob, you will be missed. Thank you for leadership and inspiration in the early days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Share your ideas on the WeAreMedia Wiki. When we kicked off the WeAreMedia, A Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits 18 months, we included two areas about content creation. List of tasks? Do you need a specific campaign or is this an ongoing activity? Is your organization thinking about a social content strategy?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Transmedia storytelling is shining through projects like Breakthrough: America 2049 , an ARG in Facebook that allows for various types of gameplay. Visit nonprofitgames.org to see our wiki of resources including everything featured in this blog post, Causebuilding Games extensive slidedeck, and professional connecting points.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Currently, as project manager for TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Campaign. Kristy leads the curation of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and supports ongoing collaboration for the Community Team's online live events and various social media channels.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. What is content curation and why should your organization try it? Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. Embrace storytelling. This is something that the 350.org

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Until then, consider visiting the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki or the following if you'd like to learn more about Twitter: What type of tweets get retweeted most?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week, Michael Hoffman will be participating in the WeAreMedia Webinar - you can take a deep dive with him about storytelling in video and get your questions answered. You'll have access to the chat transcripts and the content over at the WeAreMedia wiki. Amy Sample Ward has a great post about the WeAreMedia Webinar here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job ! Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

We talked a lot about gift economies, storytelling, and some web2.0 The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). One of conversation threads was about how to make the story of how this network works more visible - and how a network goes about resourcing itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable. A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Website.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

Complete documentation can be found on the Day of Service wiki. Both agree that a little bit of redundancy is good in case you mess up. I’ve been participating in the Day of Service since 2001 and this one was the best ever.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means. Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications. Andy Carvin: Participate in Stopy Cyerbullying Day. TwitterVision and Twitterfeed.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides. Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Social Media Metrics: Distributed Influence. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?)

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. Holly Ross created a page over at the WeAreMedia wiki summarizing the posts and links. If you were in the room or not or have additional thoughts on crowd sourcing, please add them to the WeAreMedia Wiki.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. I also like Working with Scribus: How to begin on the Scribus Wiki, and also they offer additional free online how-tos.

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