Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

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.

Social Media

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Finally this week, our featured TechSoup software as a service product is Flickr Pro. The Flickr photo-sharing service has teamed up with TechSoup to offer donated premium professional-level accounts to individuals within eligible organizations. The full list of Flickr Pro benefits are: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Here's an interview with Nature Conservancy staff members Evan Parker and Susan Citro about how the organization is using Flickr. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? We have had really great success on both fronts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Today, I'm co-hosting an online event on TechSoup about Flickr with Heather Camp, Flickr Community Manager. I think there is a benefit of uploading only 4-6 photos at a time because your followers only see the last 4 images you've posted anyway. I love online discussions with a mix of experience.

Flickr

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Meta tags have been abused by so many shifty search engine optimization (SEO) specialists over the past 10 years that search engines are increasingly giving higher priority to page titles to generate their search results. Meta tags are still relevant, but fresh content and page titles are increasingly dominating search results.

Websites

NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

flickr: *saxon* Whether you’ll be there in person, or you’re participating online, we want you to take part in all the 2012 NTC buzz. You can follow along with this handy hashtag guide: #12NTC: The main tag for the conference. 12NTCOpen: Follow the most current topics at the 12NTC with the tag for our Open Salons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Photo in Flickr. He feed all the text of an entire blog to generate a tag cloud. The Go Big Always blog written by Sam Lawrence who is the CMO of Jive Software has been playing with Many Eyes , a visualization toolset from IBM. His first list was social media thought leaders, but it was all guys.

Tag

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Photo credit: Flickr billiejoesentourage ). Tags: community resources community building nonprofits nten program service delivery webinar. Thoughts, ideas or case studies from your organization that you think are especially relevant and should be included? Leave a comment and let me know!

NTEN

Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2011

Nonprofits and libraries can upload, organize, and share their images with anyone, anywhere, with Flickr Pro (admin fees: $6 - $15). By creating cloud-based photo galleries of your work (be it tutoring, community development, and so on) you can use them to help attract new donors, constituents, and volunteers.

Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2008

Thanks to Paul Henderson for capturing this photo. He's a great photographer - the rest of his photos are in his flickr. Laura has more too and everything tagged ukriders is here. (I blogged my remarks here ). It's so much fun to do panels remotely. He wrote up his report from the conference. Here's David Wilcox's post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been getting word on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere that people are receiving their copies of the book from Amazon. And their sharing photos Flickr and Facebook. Original Photo by Craig Newmark. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. Please share add yours to the collection! giveyoursole. Kristen Parrinello.

Network

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. You can post YouTube videos to your blog posts and Flickr photos to your Upcoming.org event listings. Tag your post with “net2thinktank&# and email a link to us to be included.

Netsquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

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….

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

This is a quick roundup of some of the wonderful reviews, blog posts, photos, and videos of The Networked Nonprofit. Photo by Curious Lee. I don’t yet have a kindle, so I was thrilled to see this tweet from CuriousLee with a photo he shared on our Networked Nonprofit flickr group. More information here.

Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK.

Network

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. Tags: roundup bookmarks. So i quit my job and set up Talk About Local to bring locally created and locally owned websites to communities across the country."

Web

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

From the Flickr Twitterville Group Shel Israel has written a book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. Better yet, add it as a photo to the Twitterville Flickr Group. Tags: twitter. It's a great read! Fabulous storytelling.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Tags: community digital learning africa education. are headed to Zambia to document a community who doesn’t have a school, in as close to real-time as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant! at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Credit: Fence photo by Tim Tolle, from Flickr. Tags: contest csr. The following is a joint post by Kami Watson Huyse , Geoff Livingston and myself. Social media is in is toddler hood, especially as it applies to cause-based corporate giving campaigns and CSR initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

East Bay Regional Parks - Calendar from Photos in Flickr Group. Their flickr group is an example. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. It relates to the one of the themes in the book, simplicity. The idea that once you open to connecting and leverage your networks, you will shift to abundance.

Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Tags: twitter. Thanks Brian and Jesse for a terrifically useful map to the Twitterverse. .

Taxonomy

NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

Flickr: Chad_Norman The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference was a blast, but it sure felt like a whirlwind of information and people. We're lucky that so many attendees took photos, blogged, and tweeted to capture and share their conference experiences. All Delicious-ly tagged 09ntc. Nancy Schwartz snapped photos and blogged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . Tags: relationships.

Blogger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. By embedding tagged links in the ads to the Ocean Conservancy site, they were able to track the referral traffic for different ads. . Tags: reflection scholar. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee. Incorporate 'rinse and repeat" of experiments over time.

Conservancy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

The launch party was lots of fun - lots of Twitterville's most prominent residents were there as you can see from the #tbash stream and the photos in Flickr by Kenneth Yeung. Tags: twitter. The t-shirts were provided by Network Solutions and Shashi was creating customized versions by ironing our Twitter handles! So stay tuned.

Israel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration?

Celebrate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Touching A Starfish at Monterey Bay Aquarium : Source Flickr Photo by Beth. Tags: change management. A few weeks ago, we drove down to Monterey for a visit to the Aquarium. The kids loved, especially the hands-on exhibits. What better way to learn about a starfish than to pick up and hold it in your hands.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2009

Photo in flickr Could not resist! Tags: misc. You can "Obamacon" yourself here. Hat Tip to Michele Martin for the link!

Flickr

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. Why limit yourself? There are so many other tools and platforms that are exciting, innovative, incredibly engaging, and beautiful. Here are my top digital storytelling platforms and tools for your nonprofit to try out in 2010."

Web

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Create opportunities for the community to create social content for your web site We asked our supporters to upload photos from their events to Flickr and videos to Youtube. Tags: online communities. We had 1000+ events on all 7 continents (yes including Antarctica) and in all 50 states.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mike Cogh. Flickr Photo by Mike Cogh. Some commonsense principles for privacy and security we identified: Location Based Social Networks: Turn off social location features and geo tagging and use it on a case-by-case basis, not by default.

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