Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Linktribution is given to Alan for designing the flickr contact acquisition behavior scale. The term pack rat is also used in English as slang to refer to a person who collects miscellaneous items and has trouble getting rid of them and in severe cases can be a compulsive hoarder. How do you communicate with your contacts in flickr?

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . It wasn't really a pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. What websites and blogs do they read? These characters can then become common reference points for your team. How old are they? Where do they work?

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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. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. So, our live blogging assignment is also an important reporting task because conference participants may need to refer to these notes to cast their votes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Look for additional references , quotes , reviews, citations or stories that can help complement the existing view. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. This can help enrich and make the original resource more valuable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. By getting to know these ideas, we blend them into our own frame of reference, creating something that is changed, if not wholly new. Guest post by Kate Wing. We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Flickr Photo by John Grocki. During the discussion, someone shared a reference to the book, “ Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing &# by John Mason. The book provides a theory, practice, and framework on reflection as related to professional development. What works? What doesn’t?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. Mario Morino uses the phrase “information-based introspection” to refer to using and applying data in context to excel. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Why Not Data-Driven?”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. The framers need a reference for the curved arch. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. So what makes Flickr so useful? Now I always use Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. This book is a gem. Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I really enjoy reading her personal blog, A View from Home and if you work with nonprofits and technology - you'll find it very valuable. She made some really important observations about using a blog for professional development that resonated with me. I use my blog to help work things out for myself. ll blog it.

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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. Google Analytics – for free – can show you referring traffic from different followers on Twitter, it can show who sends quantity AND quality traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2007

That's a photo of me with Andy Goodman at the break during the Keynote workshop on Story Telling as Best Practice. " (I referred to this book in one of my first screencasts in using flickr for presentations ) What I learned deeply influenced and changed my practice in presenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mike Monteiro NTEN's We Are Media : where the community is the curriculum ! Leave a comment, write a blog post (tag it with "wearemedia"), drop your thoughts in the wiki or point to a fabulous blog post or article that answers this question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

We then moved upstairs to the roof top lunch deck where I asked Randi some questions that I crowd sourced from people via my Facebook Fan Page and took some photos. Is there a statistical reference for total money raised in Facebook Causes? They read and respond and you can find out when it might be implemented. Have one?

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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 also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first C, Content, refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mangee. He references the How To Say No podcast that gives you a method for saying no. Some of you in the nonprofit technology field may remember this wonderful cartoon " Time Management for Techies " created by Miriam Engelberg who we lost breast cancer about two years ago. Go read it.

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo: Caro Wallis (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Deborah Elizabeth Finn provides a partially-tongue-in-cheek reference for technology providers to consider before addressing a small nonprofit. Members are in bold. Tip: you may need a hanky to watch the video!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Add a Breadline Blogger Bakeoff fundraising widget to your blog. Upload your bread recipe with a photo or video. The participant who refers the most donations will receive a $500 Amazon voucher, and have their name on a Breadline Africa kitchen built from a converted shipping container. Make a donation to Breadline Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

LauraatNing was listening and just pinged me to point me over to this blog post about nonprofits that are using Ning with their donors and supporters. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Also, approximately 6% of visits to our main site is referred by visitors to our Ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

She has a blog, "The Altimeter" that discusses these topics at blog.altimetergroup.com. If I have a one on one meeting, I'll check out their online profiles, updates, and blog, so that I'm up to date. Flickr: On flickr, I pretty much friend people who request it. However, I do look at their photos first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. . This blog post was originally published on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. This year, I decided to create a New Year's post that looks at both format and content so I have a handy reference for my year-end post for 2009! You can pick out the best content on your blog, other people's blogs, or ask your readers. Ah, but what format to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. t that bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Flickr photo by zen??? Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. But soon realized it was from Hamburger Helper???s My Hometown Helper???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. I'm hoping to also meet Nick Booth and maybe Steve Bridger too!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

According to DonorsChoose: "low income" refers to the percentage of students at a given school who qualify for free lunch, which is considered a measure of economic need. If you would like to support any of these projects, just click HERE , or click on the "donate to my challenge" button on the sidebar of this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Beth's Flickr Stream. But one scenario, well I had that very question in a video I just published : I create a short movie, comprised of a video clip and three digital photos that I took, my -over and a royalty-free soundtrack song, which I bought from Premium Beat. What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Any suggestions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

My Flickr Set: RootsCamp SL Machimina Session. The article includes a pointer to a YouTube video of a presentation of how Bells and Spurs (here's a pointer to the references in a photo I took of myself on the set several months ago) movie was made in Second Life.

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