As part of my work at the Packard Foundation this year, I'm honored to be working on a project called "Friending the Finishline," a group of children's health advocates who are working together on a peer learning exchange to discover how to best use Facebook and other social networking tools to advance their work in children’s health. One area of challenge: balancing strategic communications with spontaneity of social media. The spontaneous part is all the organic stuff, … [Read more...]
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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco
After facilitating the two-day E-mediat Networking Conference, "New Media for the Networked NGO" in Jordan at the Dead Sea last week, I flew 2,000 miles west to Fez, Morocco to facilitate and keynote a second two-day conference for NGOs from Tunisia and Morocco that had successfully completed the e-mediat program in their countries, Morocco and Tunsia. The conference in Morocco was a "tri-lingual event" and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and … [Read more...]
What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?
Last month, I had the pleasure of doing a session on Content Curation called "What Can Nonprofits Learn from the Best Content Curator on the Planet: Robin Good?" Robin joined me on Skype all the way from Rome. One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools - news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general … [Read more...]
What Comes First, Content Creation or Curation?
This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation. Let's be clear as my fellow content curator, Jan Gordon, says: There is no curation without original content. I might qualify this a bit by saying, there is no curation with awesomely addictive social content! And that means creating content - blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, YouTube Videos - that … [Read more...]
Best Practices for Content Curation for Nonprofits at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference
Source: bethkanter.org via Beth on Pinterest On January 30th, I'm speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City. (You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code "Beth" when you sign up although the discount only works on the more expensive tickets). This year, since content curation, is a social media competency that I'm focusing in my own learning and teaching , I'll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic. Robin Good, one of … [Read more...]
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