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MARCH 9, 2008

It can bring in your photos (and the photos of your contacts) from flickr. I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us It can keep track of your Twitter friends, etc.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. To be more productive with the time I spend online and put some of the suggestions that Ed Hallowell in his book, Crazy Busy suggests about avoiding online time wasters. But maybe I can be fast and neater?

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See photo on the left) Together, we joined forces and presented on the top tips and tools for creating visual media with a limited budget, and explained why its so important. I felt really humbled to be amongst a highly diverse group of both budding and seasoned grassroots activists. Here''s what they said.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. In 2007, Vikki Spruill attended a seminar hosted by the Packard Foundation with Clay Shirky and came away both scared and excited about his ideas. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee. Also, how do you sustain this process of try it, fix it. .

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JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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MARCH 1, 2008

Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. This is an example of the types of ongoing, online conversations I've been having with CogDog blog's Alan Levine over the past three years. His blog was one of the first I discovered and have been hooked ever since. And he loves dogs).

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. You know why I started to twitter.

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MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath, February, 2007. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath. You can read see the other photos and read the letter in flickr here.

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APRIL 11, 2010

In 2007, we revamped the event so that volunteers no longer left the conference for the day and did two-hour strategy consults in the morning. This year, several volunteers, used whrrl a mobile app that lets you and your friends collaborate on creating a story through photos, maps, and updates at a particular location.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Original photo by Mapes. Created in FD Flickr Tools. Dave Winer also predicted that 2007 would be the year of the Social Network. The title comes from Dave Winer's blog post " How To Avoid Sounding Like A Money ," a reaction to the words "social graph" versus social network.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

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! ).

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Photo by Powerbooktrance from flickr with creative commons " by " license It's been a very quiet week in the NpTech Tag Stream, providing a little quiet time for reflection on year-end posts as well as scan for the best of resources, predictions, and resolutions for 2007.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo in my flickr stream here. Dr. Hendrie passed around this photo of the 600 kids who now will be able to attend school because they have school uniforms. I just wanted to close to the loop and show the first batch of uniforms delivered for 2007! The Sharing Foundation accomplishes so much!

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DECEMBER 29, 2008

Flickr Photo: Brownpau In November, I was lucky enough to sit on a panel on text messaging for advocacy at the Convio Summit. In the last quarter of 2007, the number of text messages consumers sent outpaced the number of calls they make and receive.

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AUGUST 22, 2008

Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook. 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 Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. 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?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Flickr photo by zen??? Here's how it works: Every month through May 2007, Hamburger Helper will choose one 501(c)(4) organization for a monetary grant of up to $15,000. Here's how it works: Every month through May 2007, Hamburger Helper will choose one 501(c)(4) organization for a monetary grant of up to $15,000.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. It provides a huge return on investment.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference.

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APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007.

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APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Flickr Photo: eszter How much should you offer a new Help Desk Support Specialist? And when you're done, check out the 2007 survey results. How many IT staff do organizations your size have, anyway? What are other nonprofits outsourcing when it comes to IT? The survey only takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. What is a #HashTag?

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JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. Flickr Supporters. My photos are licensed with CC by which means people can use them as long as they give me attribution.

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MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Don’t know if they will do it in 2007. Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. BlogYoNoMo (Blog Your Novel Month) Inspired by National Novel Writing Month.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time.

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JULY 9, 2008

In December 2007, the Fund awarded grants to 15 organizations that, "represent pioneering efforts to integrate personal and social transformation throughout their organizations and movements." Flickr Photo Credit: Shining Treetops uploaded by Zest-pk activism religion contemplation spirituality environment

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? You have to give as good as you get. More precisely, you have to give 5 times more good than bad. Now, I don't want to offend you, but I've seen how you treat your data. It's feast or famine. Step 5: Make it Pretty. Promise me one thing: No More Tables.

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DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Photo by D'Arcy Norman. you can download the slide here and revise), so here goes: Flickr screencapture here. The workshop begins on April 20th and you can register here. For the first Connected Futures workshop almost a year ago, I led a field trip to the NpTech Tag Community and participated as faculty.

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Ah, but what format to use.

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest.

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