Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Here's the press photo via a post on netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts. Take for example, the netsquared conference. 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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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. Start out small by leaving comments on your favorite blogs.

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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 nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. rethink, reinvent. And if you???re

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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. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. Read the post from Brian Lamb. blame the internet! :-). t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs. Her points: 1.

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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. Marnie Webb is on a road trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. A few comments over at Kikono too. Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites.

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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. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! Do you have a NpTech photo to caption and share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0

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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 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." "I think it's been both overhyped and underestimated," Dogster's Rheingold said.

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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. Cross posted at Netsquared NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Photo by Buddhassit Weaving: This goal is more conceptual and may not make sense to anyone but me. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

TechSoup’s web content developer, Wes Holing, is a big fan of Pixlr Editor free online photo editor from Autodesk. Pixlr-o-matic is a free online tool that adds special effects, like making photos look antique. NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. Today I Cried resigns ! Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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