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Lately, we’ve watched as images – from photos to infographics – have taken over the web. As photos take over Facebook newsfeeds and Pinterest explodes, I see so many people trying to accomodate an image-centric process into their digital curation. This is why: A Thousand Words Without a Photo. Stick with me.
The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.
They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv is like TwitPic, except for video. Mobile Browsers.
Toobla is a brand new social bookmarking tool and I was very impressed! As Toobla describes itself, “Toobla lets you easily collect, enjoy and share visual bookmarks to websites and other embeddable content (i.e. widgets like YouTube or other videos, photos, documents, games and widget applications).
1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a. Post Eye-catching Photos. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts.
But the fruits of my labor has gotten so much richer with the integration of social networking tools, particularly social bookmarking services. Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. I also look at the bookmarks of first taggers of resources that I find particularly useful.
Jeffrey Zelman bemoans tag clouds ascent (or descent) into popular culture. I like how the jargon of the blogoshere is so poetic and filled with methaphoric language, but excuse me - what is a tag cloud? The subtle message is bigger is better and thus influences other people to use that tag. I couldn't resist.
To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! Why limit yourself?
Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging.
"Eric Overman (photo, center), Operation Smile, received the Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award, and Anne Bergquist (photo, left), YMCA of Metro Chicago, and David J. Neff (photo, right), American Cancer Society High Plains, received the Special Marketing Initiatives and Social Media subcategory awards, respectively.
Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?
Delicious / Bookmarks. Check in on your tags and see if there isn’t any cleaning you can do! If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. dashes (tags for “blooddrive&# and “blood-drive&# ).
The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us The idea was to tell people to tag with nptech everything that is relevant and then look to see what was being tagged to see how the tags were being used. Here's the description (notes here ?) and Tehcnorati to designate technical resources that may be useful to nonprofits.
" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. Tags: roundup bookmarks. . "After running successful community websites in London's challenging Kings Cross I wanted to help other communities achieve the same sense of empowerment and communication.
Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. rethink, reinvent. Johannes).
Flickr Photo from Ross Mayfield Still reflecting on the question " Are Fundraising Groundwells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?" Found this oldish post in my bookmark collection called Power Law of Participation for social software by Ross Mayfield. Tags: working wikily.
So, I posted the video below as a response to Steve's introductory video, asking him for some tips for success in a community tagging project: Here's the response I got: Here's a transcript of the answers: Hey there Beth. I have six tips on how to start a community tagging project: 1 Pick a compelling theme. Pick your tags carefully.
Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.
For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Update your bookmarks: [link]. It's moved.
They are posting their introductions and photos here. Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to taggedbookmarks.
Photo by the TruthAbout. Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Remember bookmarked items can also positively influence your blog traffic. Tags: Blogging metrics. Are there patterns?
Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. The focus is on friendship and sharing of resources and photos. Tags: NPTech NTEN. Getting Social. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!
Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Object Based Social Sharing VS Social Graph Sharing : Objects are things like photos, bookmarks, slide decks, or in the case of Quora, questions. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post. Thanks Geoff! ). You can use any of those links to look around you.
Foxmarks to sync bookmarks, and now ReadItLater to sync my reading list. The parts I choose not to sync from the road (Music, Movies, Photos, etc.) Tags: OTA iphone sync Macintosh. I use DropBox to make sure I have important files with me (and to hold my 1Password keychain file s o my login passwords are automatically synced ).
Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.
Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Tags: Information Coping Skills. Here's one way you might celebrate.
Photo from Ian Kennedy. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. I love laptop stickers! I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network.
Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics."
cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Previously, On NMC….
Also in that sidebar live your bookmarks and your reading list. Tab groups also sync across devices (as do Bookmarks, extensions, etc.), It’s surprisingly useful to have bookmarks, tab groups, and my reading list all in one place. It’s now slightly easier to save photos (though it wasn’t that hard before). Continuity.
Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Tags: ROI. Do share your thoughts.
Photo by Marco Wessel Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending one of NTEN's "Ask the Expert" calls and chats with Wendy Harman who is the professional listener for the Red Cross. Laura Lee Dooley shared this example (bookmarked posts of people talking about her organization fed into Wordle).
Another example of using a wiki to organize captured notes was Amy Gahran's wiki of all the blog posts and notes from the recent Blogher conference, compiled post-event and facilitated by the use a conference tag. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.
Photo by Dwinton. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time. Tags: socialmediametrics RSS.
tags: blogs facebook ). I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. Did HSUS proclaim that photo competitions were a waste of time?
Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Are you impulse adopting tools?
Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.
Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. It's messy. Step 1: Find People.
A tiny, inexpensive gift, such as a bookmark, sticker, or magnet. If you work with animals, can you have a fashion photo shoot involving holiday sweaters? Be sure to tag them all! When you post, don’t forget to tag the corporation and anyone you know personally within that corporation! You could also do a video shout-out.
Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Bookmark your posts in del.icio.us, and other social bookmarking services. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen. Tags: askbritt.
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That's a photo of me above at NetSquared's last Net Tuesday. A gathering for folks to socialize and chat about how nonprofits can use web-based technology like blogs, podcasts and social bookmarking for change. If you are feeling inspired, here's how you can post your photo: 1. Upload your photo and tag it with “net2”.
blogs, podcasts, vlogs, wikis, news aggregation, social networking, social bookmarking) for marketing. Photo Credit: Symmetry by Petra Broda. Tags: green business marketing socialweb. Just like last time, I'll send the first person to send me links to five examples a Have Fun * Do Good tote or mug. Thanks for your help!
I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. The google spreadsheet allowed me to easily grab the text and code for the original post, include a bio and photo, etc. Tags: guest blogging. Have a post?
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