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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. Photo credit: Flickr leehaywood. The action of sharing a kiss doesn’t seem to align with the actions needed to get rid of Malaria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. Note from Beth: Social media is not a waste a time, but there are ways to waste your time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

" They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Travlr After I sent out a message announcing our Drupal Webinar Series , my in-box filled up with "Isn't the first one of those scheduled for Inauguration Day? Join The Chronicle of Philanthropy's inauguration Flickr group. Tags: NPTech inauguration flickr twitter google maps iPhone. Aren't you going?"

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. Kindergarten used to be less about academics and more about the socialization kids need to survive in school. One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. What is a #HashTag?

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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. Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work.

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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

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. The Second C: Collaboration. The Third C: Community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. 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. Did HSUS proclaim that photo competitions were a waste of time?

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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. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

George from Flickr Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. This is George from Flickr takaing a picture of me while I took a picture of her. She couldn't demonstrate because the connection was down, but when she wrote stuff on the flipchart - she wrote the L I in flickr in a way that looked like: fucker. Inside joke at Flickr.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

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. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins. They brainstormed basically anything you can imagine that aid workers might need. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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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. Also, with flickr, people need to realize that they you need more than 5 photos to be live.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Flickr photo: Chris.Corwin Nothing gets done without leadership. Leaders are the ones who find the peaks we need to climb amongst those clouds. They inspire us to put one foot in front of the other to get there. When we get lost, leaders help us find our way. And at all times, leaders help us enjoy the journey.

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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? Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Mushon. The event organizers did some email contact with folks to tweak scheduling and aggregate sessions, etc. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? Leave a comment and point to them.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live. In between cycling up some tough hills, riders snapped tons of photos, emailing them direcly to the Flickr feed , sent tweets tagged with #climateride, and posted to the blog at night.

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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. What is the institutional response to the need for some sort of reader or aggregator? Read the post from Brian Lamb. blame the internet! :-).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Why nothing about social aggregators

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. rethink, reinvent. For many in the boomer. Jonathon Coleman ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. How to distribute your stories via YouTube, Flickr, Utterz, and other ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

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. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 tool to jump in. What a concept.

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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. There's also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that's Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Rather than construct your own top ten list, you can aggregate ten other top ten lists - here's Social Citizen's Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2008. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Flickr photo from: Just Me Robin Photos "Fried Green Tomatoes anyone?" Small organizations benefit from listings on aggregation sites; at network for good, half of dollars go to small-medium sized charities. Well, actually a line from the movie of the same name delivered by Kathy Bates. children,??? ???cancer,???

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If writing up a case study or going to a Net Tuesday feels too time consuming, you can also help by tagging web sites in del.icio.us , photos in Flickr and personal blog entries that relate to NetSquared with the tag "net2" and they will feed into the NetSquared news aggregator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

and messy information I'm aggregating. I haven't needed to drink any pink stuff. as I struggle to not only master using the tool efficiently but make meaning out of the randomn, misc., The latter is a shift and at first it doesn't feel comfortable.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." It doesn't work that way."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. "One person can take a photo. The social media, disaster response, non-profit and government leaders had a working lunch to brainstorm ways to better aggregate and respond to information on social media sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects!

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