Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. They’ve been very supportive of our strategy and engaging staff across the org. For tools specifically, we use CoTweet to manage our Twitter communications and MBuzz for monitoring our social media mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cute Dog Photos! org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. Cute Dog Photos!

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

It offers a solution for campaigns and orgs looking to post links and focus on rapid response and breaking news. Posts can be up to 500 characters, and they can include links, photos, or videos up to 5 minutes long. We’re not trying to migrate to a new platform. This is an extension of Instagram! We think Threads can fill that gap.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

org before? The event happens in the week leading up to Mother’s Day and provides a platform where anyone can build a heartspace with text, photos and videos to show their love for their mother, an important woman in their life, or even people that inspire them. org and 1Sky to lead by merging. Have people heard of 350.org

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Scheduled for May 3-8, 2011, the site invites participants to create socially shareable “heartspaces&# that include words, videos, photos & investments in honor of mamas they love. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

Mari mentioned in an email was that one of the women in this workshop was a lawyer, who heads up WRAPA (Women’s Rights and Protection Alternative) and LACVAW, a coalition of 70 orgs working on rights issues (see below). It was an one pager, stating violence in Nigeria facts and showing very graphic photos of victims of violence.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Nature Conservancy’s photo contests : The crowd, in this case it’s one that loves nature photos, shares the pictures they love about nature and in the process grow their community. org campaign has done really well. How do you keep supporters engaged in creating change over the long haul? This is something that the 350.org

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Community Social Media Case Study Haiti 207

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

I've never seen another org consistently recognize supporters in a blog like we do. Include a photo in the post if at all possible. This balance between 1 and 3 -- deflecting praise but also driving your org's strategy -- simply works. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! Pictures have tenfold the value of words. by sunshinecity.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Some of the responses highlighted the need to understand what was currently working for the listserv conversations and what would be a valuable hook to move people to the forums, and especially who within the community (not the org) may be the most influential in a successful migration.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

The 2017 M&R Nonprofit Benchmark Study found that for every 1000 email subscribers, organizations can expect to have 39 Instagram followers, and that orgs experienced on average a 101% Instagram follower growth in 2016. This is a challenge because many nonprofits are more focused on text than visuals — be the org who does visuals well!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Technically, I suppose they could shut down the Internet in your office, but that's more likely to kick-start a staff uprising than prevent somebody from uploading photos from their college yearbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. YOUR ORG NAME] helps [TWITTER FOLLOWERS] to [BENEFIT/VALUE YOU. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. Here’s one for Twitter. Here’s a template to get you started. DELIVER ON TWITTER FEED].

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

And ultimately, we take action to be part of something as we already have plenty of opportunities to take and share video, photo and messages with our friends or the world at large. org’s story is that our changing climate and toxic levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere are affecting everyone on earth. Story – 350.org’s

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. org, a Networked Nonprofit. org person is Bill McKibben , who is president, co-founder, and primary messenger for the organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

Azavea explores this topic in a newly released whitepaper and documents how they built a prototype mobile app (for iPhone and Android) that overlays historical photos on the modern city streets of Philadelphia. Instead, tell stories that explain your mission and your impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. Well, #CharityTuesday was started as a way of creating visibility for orgs using Twitter, get them talking to each other instead of just broadcasting information, and more. Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The most popular snark was this photo of Mark Zuckerberg. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Dislike of Facebook isn’t enough to move people.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

Photo: Planet of the Humans. org, wrote in Rolling Stone. ‘Planet of the Humans’ executive producer Michael Moore with director Jeff Gibbs and producer Ozzie Zehner at the Traverse City Film Festival. Planet of the Humans was also taken down from another platform, Films for Action, because of the copyright claim.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed | Photo by Bodo Marks / picture alliance via Getty Images. Email from BuzzFeed News EIC Mark Schoofs to staff about what the acquisition of HuffPost means for the two news orgs pic.twitter.com/JwW4XWyeMg — Max Tani (@maxwelltani) November 19, 2020. The pairing makes sense.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today in a modern, data-intensive org, “SELECT *” will kill you. Photo via Select Star. Photo via Select Star. With petabytes of information, tens of thousands of tables (on the small side!), Select Star’s interface allows data scientists to understand what data they are looking at.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

I like the org because I''m connected with them in some way either through a friend, work, or volunteering. Flickr photo credit: Colored pencils by Alan Cleaver. I use that framework when choosing where to volunteer, but not necessarily when I make a donation. Maybe that''s because I usually donate to a cause because 1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Photos via Mosaic. Photo via Mosaic. Mosaic wants to be ready to integrate immediately, widely distributed within orgs, and require minimal upkeep to be useful. Mosaic founders Bijan Moallemi, Brian Campbell and Joseph Garafalo. So Palantir ended up building its own. Screenshot of Mosaic’s planning function.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. The annual report from 350.org

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Flickr Photo: Luc Legay You use social networks at work, right? It's okay to admit it. In fact, we want you to tell us all about it in a survey about social network use by nonprofits that we're running with Common Knowledge and ThePort. > > Take the Survey !

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

It’s not just.com,org, or.net anymore. A lot of people [use domains] to represent their product or service, and in a way, we did, too,” says Robert Kaufman, former managing director of capital markets at National Alliance Securities and currently the founder and president of Memoriis , LLC, a photo-focused tech startup.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Flickr Photo: Vermin Inc On Wednesday, the kind folks at Russ Reid allowed me to invade a little think thank they held with some clients about social media and its applications in the nonprofit organization. This led me to wonder: what's in the DNA of each of these orgs that allows them to embrace change and experiment?

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CauseVox

MARCH 11, 2022

With less staff capacity, name-brand recognition, and resources compared to larger orgs, it may seem like smaller nonprofits have extra hoops to jump through. Using these standards, and for the purposes of this article, we’re classifying any org with assets totaling $500K or less as small. What’s Considered Small? Small But Mighty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. org model enables any individual or organization around the world to create and promote events ("actions") - with a call to action for a fair global climate treaty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by hanspoldoja. I think there is real potential for significant positive change in our communities in next couple decades, primarily because everyone is getting it, i.e. no one org. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. The org was not planning to require vaccinations at that time. Google just announced that it will not exhibit at MWC this year. Now that the vaccine situation is improving and another big name has bailed, I’m curious if organizers will change their minds.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

How do you involve the org? Fail formally - protesting Wendy’s with a photo sharing with a protest sign but only got a few people doing it, heard so much about how hard it was for people to participate, etc. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Have you seen examples of your org changing?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2012

See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos. Simply contact us at impactmap [at] TechSoupGlobal [dot] org and send us your brief, 200-to-300 word story. Inspire others using the social share buttons to share these stories with your network.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

They had a chance to win free services from Karma Store, a new technology group that helps nonprofits easily show donors the work they do through responsive web design, dynamic infographics, and photo updates. We were inspired by the incredibly compelling photos we received, but we had to choose just one winner, and GETSET-GO won our votes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

  Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic. org/02/haiti and it is also accessible from the IPPF/WRH homepage: www.ippfwhr.org.    How did the earthquake impact PROFAMIL Haiti's work? .  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

Photo by Kalabird (Michaela Hackner). a checklist helping orgs understand when they should not devote resources to Web 2.0. So does that mean that our org should not be investing time and energy in social media tools? Do you ever need to walk the line between cutting edge social media and Old Skool in your org?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

Growing individual institutions ever larger has failed to address complex social problems that outpace the capacity of any individual org. Flickr Photo by Stuck in Customs. Flickr Photo by Big Tall Guy. or institution to solve them. Some times they go on to form their own nonprofits like Amanda Rose and Manny Hernandez.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2014

This will make ads much more affordable for your org. Photos and videos have increased in popularity on Facebook. Facebook ad impressions are up 40% year-over-year. Facebook''s cost per clicks have lowered considerably since end-of-year fundraising has ended. Engagement with video posts is up 25% year-over-year.

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