Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. “ Marnie talks about the importance of data aggregation and synthesis skills as a new competency for nonprofits. Are there good examples of organizations working in this new way that can inspire us? Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Or are we talking about all curation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. see flickr photo ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

All the great features of Facebook are available - writing on the Wall, uploading photos, and joining discussion groups. Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. They now use this approach with other channels, like Twitter, for example. Listening leads to engagement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 13, 2009

When you want to find a way to volunteer, the first step is to search for volunteer positions using services that aggregate volunteer listings, or to search on nonprofits' sites for listings, but what if you could create your own listing of services that you'd like to give to nonprofits, and they could search for you ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Mushon. But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. You can see a simple example that I tried to extract myself from looking at the history. There is one or two examples. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

How can those notes best be aggregated in one place to be shared with all participants and perhaps with those who didn't attend the event? A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

One of the most compelling examples are the Crisis Camps that the community of developers and web geeks are leading around the world. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. Our aggregation page allows people to see what we???ve For example, we found someone who was tagging photos of election themes. Interrupted by a call from his wife. s buying an Ipod Shuffle! Actually, we didn???t

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your "circles" are able to view it. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Besides this being an awesome cycling journey with stellar folks, it was a super example of what can be done with a few computers, lots of smart phones and video cameras to build buzz around an in-person event. Not to mention all the personal updates that were happening through folks' Facebook profiles, Twitter, and personal blogs.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says. Even a recent call for organizational examples of ???non-profit What is the institutional response to the need for some sort of reader or aggregator? Read the post from Brian Lamb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. functionality. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Second Life 101 - some great photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. So, I've decided to use it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. What is Click?

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AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. Flickr photo by Lenz Grimmer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us Are you having fun yet? Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. With good reason. with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

For more information, check out the Tech Soup article, "Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS: Use RSS to Help Your Constituents Stay On Top of News and Announcements," and the Social Signal article, "Make Your Nonprofit More Effective with RSS Aggregation." Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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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….

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Let me give you an example. Unlike the "related videos" list, which is aggregated automatically by YouTube, video responses are self-assigned by their creator. These services will link you directly to real-time conversations happening about your institution, whether via photos uploaded on Flickr or links on Delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. Act 3: A Few Good Examples. I'm so excited! Group 1: Interactivity. Chat and Messages.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. As an adult, my profile shows my username, photo, city, state, and country. For kids, the profile only shows username, photo, and country (and most people use "sprites"--Scratch characters--for their photos). ScratchR is really well-designed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

.” The e-book, which at 32 pages, is definitely long-form content provides context, best practices, examples, tools, and resources. Flickr Image by theamarand. I don’t know about you, but as a content consumer, I still do consumer long-form content to get a better understanding of a topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. " Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. For example, see the followers of @ NonprofitOrgs by country at tweepsmap.com/!nonprofitorgs. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The example I talk about in the poem covers the initial use of NWF's twitter accounts and then continues to how we actually starting using it to improve and grow one of our programs- "wildlife watch". is a great example of this. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Everyone likes photos. link] wildlife_watch.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. You see something like that and ask "Hey! What's this all about"? BAM, time to tell the story. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

Some artists and art-lovers bemoan the fact that Foot in the Door has grown beyond professionals to include hobbyists and casual art-makers, but for many contributors, the exhibition is an opportunity to revel in the diversity of art-making (for example, see this contributor's reflection ).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. When I write posts on this blog or share photos on Flickr, they are searchable in Google. They add to my aggregate online existence. Those messages, photos, and comments are locked behind walls. Or should I put up the photos from my visit on Flickr?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The Science Buzz blog , which is managed by a team of exhibit developers, science writers, and floor staff at the Science Museum of Minnesota, is a good example of diversified community management that models the inclusion of a range of voices and opinions. This is a valid concern, especially on social sites that are not tightly aggregated.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." You can see the museum's plants here and the aggregate community submissions here.

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