Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. And, all of this content aggregated in one place - comments on sessions, news feeds, photos, videos, etc. Watch video of actual conference sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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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. .&# Making the options for backing up and downloading your content and data explicit. Privacy within the platform can be on a content by content basis. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Flickr photo: Logan was his name-o It's been just a few hours since one of the largest recorded earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit off the coast of Japan. The photos and video coming out of the region are awe inspiring and scary. Within a week came the Katrina People Finder , aggregating data into one central location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

For example, there is a simple way to use Flickr and a custom email address to aggregate photos from your constituents to then create a photo of the day similar to @CharityWater. There are many ways to create and cultivate great content with limited resources/time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The later focused on how nonprofit could become social content creators, that how to effectively communicate the organization's story effectively through social media channels like blogs, video, podcasts, and photos. We also touched on user-generated content, inspiring others to tell your organization's story in their own words.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

TechSoup's storytelling campaign will have four prizes: Best Nonprofit Video, Best Nonprofit Photo, an Audience Award, and a Stories of Tomorrow Award. Citizen stories, aggregated and amplified by NGOs, deserve to be heard as testament to humanity's plurality and hope. Check out the moving, powerful stories that were submitted.

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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. 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

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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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

May 5, 2016 — Free webinar 4: Using Photos to Tell Your Organization's Story. Citizen stories, aggregated and amplified by NGOs, deserve to be heard as testament to humanity's plurality and hope. May 3 – 4, 2016 — Around-the-world Twitter chat (sign up in this Google doc ).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. They had not taken photos in our photo booth and gotten an email about them later. They were not part of our Facebook community sharing photos and stories from the event. Let me explain.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. 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? A hashtag is this symbol: #. This takes some facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2007

" It lets you aggregate your photo sets! I put a collection together of all my photos from and about Leng Sopharath. I've been waiting for this one! Flickr has just added a feature called "collections." It is very easy to use. My collection is here. The official flickr blog post is here.

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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. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My My personal favorite photo is here ).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They've aggregated over 3,500 volunteer opportunities, so there's almost certainly something out there to match your skills set. Mozilla Service Week kicks off today and runs through September 21st. To date, more than 10,000 volunteer hours have been promised. That's 5 years work at a full-time job!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Rennet Stowe That's the question that Stephen Downes raises after reading " Get Ready To Participate: Crowds and Governance" published on Henry Jenkins blog and written by Daren C. Brabham , a Ph.D. candidate writing a thesis on crowdsourcing for problem solving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Vincent Mo – technical lead for google + photos. But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. Jesse Stay , Author of Google + for Dummies. Nonprofits Organizations This is Heather Mansfied’s Google + brand page.

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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? She offered to share.

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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 3, 2008

Photo by Travelin' Librarian. This week I started working on a new project with NTEN to help aggregate the many amazing social media resources out there and develop a social media training curriculum that anyone in the nonprofit sector can use. If you have kids and have ever taken a long road trip, you've heard that question.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2020

Though virtual, think of all the small ways you can “bring” the event to the participant, such as photoshopping finish line photos for each participant, or sending them a personalized bib or water stop supplies. Community-driven on-the-ground activities: These folks are nothing if not competitive and creative.

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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

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. Flickr photo credit: metaweb20 by CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. . #1: 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband). #2: 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Photo by LIFT. CEO is now moving toward a confidential system of surveys where participants won’t be individually identified, but staff will access aggregated data and respond to themes. Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 13, 2017

Plus, features of a team fundraising page are specifically designed to trigger this competitive drive: The use of a display thermometer, which aggregates the donations for all fundraisers on the team, plays a role in helping P2P fundraisers feel they are part of something bigger and engages them more deeply in the team’s efforts.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. In the case of Planet Labs, they state that their photos only show topography and vegetation, but not people, cars, or houses.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Snapchat is an instant messaging app for photos. If Instagram, then Dropbox.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clearing your personal data from a cell phone prevents anyone else getting your call history, contacts, emails, photos, text messages, calendar appointments, and many more things. aggregator companies that buys used mobile phones or donates them to charities. They’re one of the primary U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Photo by Caveman92223. I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. Their goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response. Here's more about their haiti platform.

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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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