WeAreMedia: Why Putting on Your Listening Ears is the Fiirst Step (1)
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My Listening Ears, Flickr Photo by niclindh During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. The first module is on Listening. Why listening? Learning how to listen using a couple of social media tools and the active task of listening is something that can be easily learned in a few hours and if an organization invests 1-5 hours per week ...
Underwear for Africa and Reclaiming A September 11th Birthday (1)
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Some of the best grassroots fundraising for projects in developing countries take the form of clothing donation campaigns. Last summer, as part of a campaign I did to support the Cambodian bloggers summit, I got many donations of technology t-shirts. So many generous people donated, that I had enough to distribute some t-shirts to the kids at Roteang Orphanage, managed by the Sharing Foundation, including a foo-camp t-shirt donated by Tara Hunt for Pharoth. More ...
How Socialble Are You? I'm 359 (1)
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Click for larger image or here. HowSociable provides a simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. It measures mentions on these twenty sites. I scored 359 on September 1st. It isn't clear exactly how it indexes and computers your score. For comparison, I benchmarked myself against Chris Pirillo. Something isn't quite right here if my score is higher than Chris!
Get Involved in Gustav Online Volunteer Efforts (2)
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Photo by ChristineAs you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer, of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device ...
Essays and the Blog (1) (1)
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On August 28, Dick Jones brought to my attention a question about contemporary essays and essayists posed by Bob Harris on Paper Cuts, the blog about books written by the book review editors of The New York Times: In early September, Yale University Press will publish “The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology.” It’s a useful crash course in what the periodical essay once was. There’s Addison and Steele; Dr. Johnson and Boswell; ...
Social Media and Diabetes (1)
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NetChick: This Chick's Life 1. Tell me about you I'm Tanya Davis, aka "NetChick" online, based in beautiful Vancouver, BC. I'm 38, and I've been blogging my personal life for 11 years. I'm passionate about writing, technology, and building communities both online and "in real life". My blog is "This Chick's Life. I recently announced there that I'll be running a half marathon in Orlando FL for Team Diabetes. (My first run of any significant ...
Let The Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road ... (3)
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Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. He describes what hopes to do:I intend to examine the methodology of various politically and socially energized young people, contacted through various activist networks, ...
SXSW: Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit Panels! Some more thoughts about the Nonprofit, Social Media, and ROI Case Study Slam (1)
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Magnetic Poetry by Surreal Muse The SXSW Interactive Festival panel picker process closes on August 29th at 11:59 PM which means you have only a couple of days left to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. I did a roundup of all the fantastic nonprofit panel submissions if you want help nonprofits get on the agenda there. I've been in brainstorm mode for a ...
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: The value of attending Gnomedex: Priceless (2)
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Find more videos like this on Internet Time Video from Jay Cross and more about Matt from Jamie Nelson There were approximately 250 social media power users There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers There were 15 sponsorship partners and tasteful sponsorship giveaways and promotion Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones) Two delicious breakfast and lunches, plus 5 different kinds of candy in the afternoon Two awesome parties ...
How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? (29)
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Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook 90 minutes! Today I presented at Gnomedex 8.0. (My slides are here). I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the America's Giving Challenge, and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge. My first fundraising effort was to send Leng Sopharath to college her first year ...
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David said:
yes.. I'm jealous. The SF Election Truthiness Campaign will probably hit its mark of 2,500 - but it woulda been a lot easier on me if it only took 90-minutes instead of 1.5 months.
Open Thread: How does my nonprofit organization get started with social media? What should we do first? What's your advice? (1)
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Photo by Billerr Every now and then I get emails asking for advice. I don't have the bandwidth to answer each one or even blog them, but occasionally I like to post them here because it is great to hear what the very smart people who read this blog have to say. I received this email recently:Dear Beth: I've been receiving your blog for a couple of weeks & find it fascinating reading. I also ...
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Heart Kids Tweet ... (2)
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From Dr. ManiIn August-September every year, heart surgeon and infopreneur Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian holds a 24-hour day-and-night blogging marathon called the Heart Kids Blogathon. The event is widely supported by thousands of people. Many make donations (over $120,000 has been raised over the last 6 years). The money was used to fund life-saving heart surgery in 26 children, with many more to come. See this site for details. By participating in the Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon , ...
Just posted to NIN official (1)
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The distinction between enabling conversations and an online community. How do engagement strategies and skills differ or are similar? (4)
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Source: Mzinga: How To Determine Operational Readiness for Building a A Community vs. Just Enabling conversation. Via post from Rachel Happe on the Social Organization I'm in the process of reviewing the content of the six modules for the strategy track that we've created so far for the WeAreMedia. I'm want to keep an eye out for content that isn't clear, logical flow, and gaping holes. Just hitting the pause button to catch breath and ...
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW (5)
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The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. Last year, I ...
We will find a better place in this twilight (1)
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(Photo by Chris; the rest of his photos are here, and his review is here.) Whenever I try to explain my affinity for all things Trent Reznor, I know it's hard not to come off sounding a little bit psycho. And yet the first thing that springs to mind when I think about the concert I saw last night at the Mohegan Sun Arena is, well...a little...you're going to have to take it or leave ...
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Joe said:
great NIN live show review from my friend beth
Do you return every email message? Do you check your email in the bathroom? (2)
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Photo by ArtNow 314 via Mashable According to a new study from AOL, 59% of people check their email in the bathroom. The study of 4,000 users also showed people check their email from the following locations: • In bed in their pajamas: 67% • From the bathroom: 59% • While driving: 50% • In a bar or club: 39% • In a business meeting: 38% • During happy hour: 34% • While on a ...
Nominate The Game Changers for the We Media Awards (1)
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I don't usually blog announcements, but this is a little bit of social media kismet and couldn't resist. Andrew Nachison, President and CEO, iFOCOS, who helped created an annual conference WeMedia, left a comment on an older blog post. I'd just finished blogging about the book giveaway (reading Amy Sample Ward's reflection about it). We offered free copies of Media Rules by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon to generate participation on the wiki for the ...
From Social Media StarFish To Conversation Prism (2)
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Illustration by Brian Solis and Jess 3(Click through to see the larger image) Darren Barefoot created a visual called "social media starfish" in his book "Getting to First Base." It was a remix of Scoble's white board. Brian Solis has created the next reiteration - the conversation prism. (Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and ...
Gen Y Nonprofits and Social Change Bloggers: Meet Miss Jones (1)
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Last month I attended the "Twenty-Something Meet Up" at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulousZandria. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" I left room inspired to compile a living list. The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Meet Miss Jones who ...
