Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

Check out how flickr is being used to promote a nonprofit cause. Part of the campaign includes a photo context in Flickr using the tag freedomfromoil. Contest details are here: [link] Via Britt Bravo's blog at netsquared [link]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Click to Flickr Photos Tagged with 07ntc in A Slide Show Presentation. I got asked this question several times during various presentations/panels at I was on at the NTC, including the Flickr Affnity Group session on Wednesday. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2010

Many blogs written by nonprofits are dry. I *love* blogs, and want to see more organizations use them in a fun and engaging way soooooo.as I *love* blogs, and want to see more organizations use them in a fun and engaging way soooooo.as What Kind of Blog Posts Would Be a Good Fit? Flickr photo credit: Juicy!

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues. Help out with a study!

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APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. In contest news, NTEN member organization ZeroDivide has launched a great contest that combines poetry, social media, and good causes: the ZD Technology Haiku Contest ! 2009 NTENny Spotlight: David Krumlauf.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2010

Just a quick reminder that the deadline to submit your post about How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog to this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival is Tuesday, July 27th. Flickr photo credit: Juicy Fruit uploaded by Rumple/Kurt. Your post doesn't have to be long (100-200 words).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Last week when I blogged that won the Creative Commons flickr photo contest, the prize I got was Lessig's on my answering machine. In today's email, J Wynia, shared with me a tool he created with the Flickr API that lets me search for interesting photos that I can remix or use and automatically generates the attribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Can’t wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from the Beth 5.0 - Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest group pool. and I got a birthday blog!!! I was so crazy busy trying to get everything together for my session next week that I didn't notice the message from Loretta Donovan the Blog Queen - who created it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Credit: Fence photo by Tim Tolle, from Flickr. You can read our in-depth post over at Kami's blog. Tags: contest csr. The following is a joint post by Kami Watson Huyse , Geoff Livingston and myself. Social media is in is toddler hood, especially as it applies to cause-based corporate giving campaigns and CSR initiatives.

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JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Read the original blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2008

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. Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. I trust him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Flickr Photo by Beth. They are also running a contest : The Red Cross is also encouraging dog owners to cool off during these dog days by diving into the American Red Cross Pet Photo Pool. Get your camera ready and sniff out these instructions to enter our Dog Days of Summer photo contest. Life slows down.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Image by Codilicious from Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Alan Levine, AKA cogdog blog, is running a marathon to help support a cause he cares about - juvenile diabetes. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest and I donated 50 bucks to his cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest (details to be announced in early 2008), I caught this post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Read the TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr " 2. Come up with a list of questions of what she needs to know or learn about to design a contest that will be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Here is what he learned.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

flickr: ryancr Not to toot our own horn (although we love to do that around here) but do you know about our RoundTables? Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. blogging from the convio summit [.] blogging from the convio summit [.] blogging from the convio summit [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). But now, the process of listening has changed concerns into strong interest about what people have to say." The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross. I've written about this as it relates to blogging quite a bit. First, it felt like we were going to do battle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? It was a photo caption contest based on the popular LOLcats site where users share photos of Cute Cats with funny captions. We learned from a previous photo contest that flopped that if you make it hard for people to figure out how to participate and time consuming, they won't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

March of Dimes: PSA Video Contest. Last year, The March of Dimes ran a flickr photo contest to help draw attention to premature births. The trip has been chronicled on a blog and there is an interactive map that shows the locations of each story collected the whole route (Over 820 stories collected as of this writing).

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? Media coverage - Tv, blogs, newspapers Was it worth it? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. s choice award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Flickr photo contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. and I can't thank you enough for the informations your blog provides us. I just did).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I just discovered a new (to me anyway) blog on nonprofits called the Nonprofit Eye via a provocative post on the Netsquared Community Blog. The blog is written by Pamela Ashlund who works for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps , although this is her personal blog. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th!

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In case you missed it, See3 staff have been guest-blogging on Care2 's Frogloop NTENny Beth Kanter captures online crowdsourcing, of a kind (Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg) this week. " GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes.

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