Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. If your nonprofit has yet to start a blog or already blogs but struggles with ideas for fresh content, then hopefully the 11 blog content ideas listed below will help. That said, mix it up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2012

A few examples of Asian nonprofits that excel in their use of social media will be featured, but since 90% of last year’s attendees were from Australia and New Zealand – those countries and their nonprofits will be the primary focus. November 6: YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. October 23: Facebook Pages and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Twitter :: Examples of Excellence. Facebook :: Example of Excellence. Your nonprofit needs a square avatar for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, your blog, Foursquare, Gowalla, TwitPic, etc. Twitter :: Needs Improvement. Facebook :: Needs Improvement. Either way, that takes less than 10 minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. Fort example, the nonprofit Big Cat Rescue uses 12Seconds to tell the day-to-day lives of their big cats. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

For nonprofits, the ROI of e-newsletters translates into online dollars raised through “Donate Now&# technology, event attendees, website and blog traffic, and paradoxically new Followers, Fans, and Friends on social networking sites. That said, here are five ways to do so using social media: 1) Blog, blog, blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

We've gotten some excellent "user generated" content (for example, check out the tips ). If you have five minutes, and your nonprofit has a blog, podcast, youtube channel, or flickr stream that you think is an awesome example of sharing your story social media style -- add a link to it and tell us why it is awesome.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. When you post a call to action for people to share a message, be sure to include reference to how they can do so; or if you are asking people to create content themselves, be sure to provide instructions and examples to help them respond to your call.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Also, Defenders of Wildlife is listed as an “Example of Excellence” in the book. A good number of your Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and Flickr, YouTube, and Foursquare friends will come directly from clicks on social media icons placed on your website with “Follow Us” pitches. Host Your Blog Inside Your Website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. Google+ Review on TechCrunch.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2012

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. And that means creating content – blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, YouTube Videos – that is valuable and high quality. This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! I might qualify this a bit by saying, there is no curation with awesomely addictive social content !

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. For example, you don’t need to spend an abundance of time on MySpace if the service doesn’t match the demographic you’re wanting to reach. It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Pitch to Your Website, E-newsletter, Blog, and Print Materials. This new page should then be linked near the e-newsletter subscribe option on your website and blog. Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. page on your mobile website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The LAF goes beyond a mere presence on social networks, it has taken a maven approach, engaging deeply with supporters with a regularly updated blog , MySpace , Facebook , YouTube , and Twitter presences. Here are a few examples of how we engage with our community to make this day a success: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Almost as excited as I was when I got the call from YouTube founders about a $1million grant! re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. We had a problem with mno06 as tag, because it brought up all the YouTube users with mn in their name.

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Care2

JUNE 4, 2012

What they found, interestingly, was that many reported using each channel primarily for a particular purpose—for example, for a given organization, 80 percent of what they do on a given channel is create new content, with only limited effort devoted to other uses. Annaliese Hoehling is the Publications Director for NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

This YouTube video is from Kenneth Goldstein and it's hilarious. There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. Specifically, since the mashup uses clips from a copyrighted Frank Capra film, is this a copyright violation or an example of fair use ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Add the Google+ icon to your website, blog, and e-newsletter!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Add the Google+ icon to your website, blog, and e-newsletter!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Blogs (five). At this point our efforts are prioritized into three categories: Receive high effort: Web, Blogs, Twitter, Newsletters. Receive low effort / watching: LinkedIn, Facebook, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, Paid channels. While it is hard to directly tie social media to outcomes (do our blogs really drive sales?),

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics." Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute, and there are as many people over 55 watching video on YouTube as there are under 18. The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

I've been a big fan of flickr and a collected many nonprofit examples and add-on tools for flickr over the past three or four years since I've been a flickr addict.    I'd love to know which ones you think are the best tools that help make flickr efficient, effective, and fun for nonprofits. . 

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov, we have made a commitment to tweet on a daily basis, and blog at least once a week. We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. These email updates share information on new followers, blog subscribers, comments, retweets, video views, etc.,

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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. A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Examples of Wikis. For more examples of wikis, and some tips for organizing your community of wiki builders, be sure to look at the following wikis: The Online Community Engagement Wiki shares recommended practices for online community participation and management. The Online Community and Social Media Team Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The youtube video is from Star Bucks Campaign. 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. it takes advantage of the established Flickr community???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Flickr Photo by Nielio. In the free report, Unleashing Innovation: Using Everyday Technology to Improve Nonprofit Services , we share nine examples of what real world organizations are doing—and a framework for innovation you can use to emulate their results at your own nonprofit. Last year, when the nearby St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Details here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). A blog may be a place to start. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. What skills do I have? Are you a natural writer?

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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. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Blog : A resource which talks about publishing, reading, literacy, kidlit, learning, non-profits, events and more. Facebook : Updating information from the blog and infromation about the events we do and communicating with the community. See this blog post from Creative Commons ). Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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