Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Tip: Nonprofits may consider specifically tailoring their Pinterest content to the female segment of their donors and supporters. For example, Grist.org is a news website that focuses on the environment. They created a pin board with expert advice on how to “Green Your Home” that is filled with beautiful visuals and helpful content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2012

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation. Let’s be clear as my fellow content curator, Jan Gordon, says : There is no curation without original content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Their content is good. They aren’t cluttering Pinterest with boring photos and seemingly endless marketing pitches. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by lyzadanger. According to the post, it suggests that what’s most important for content shelf life is the quality of the content shared, not where it is shared. Rubel talks about the issue of &# content decay&# or the amount time content has to get attention from our networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Create lists so that you can easily add people as you connect with them, and set your privacy settings to some secure options like none of your photos or photos that you are tagged in are visible to people in your “work only” list. Photo credit: Flickr hassmanm ]. Set your own tone!

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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. Note that there is a link to the blog post in the pin and that clicking the photo. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Photo by Brian Caldwell. We've gotten some excellent "user generated" content (for example, check out the tips ). But, we need some more content. I asked folks on Twitter for mini case studies from nonprofits who have been successful getting stakeholders to contribute content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

.” But do selfies have benefits, especially for social change causes? I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Content Mapping. >> Step 1: Identify all the content. Presentation. And that’s okay!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m

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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. There’s a good chance that much of this content will be viewed and read on “TV&# sets. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv 12Seconds.tv.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

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. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. You know more about the cause.

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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

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. The content is focused on the professional area of expertise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Blogging during the era of the Social Web is more valuable than ever to nonprofits provided your blog is well-designed and the content is good. For example, Greenpeace’s Making Waves Blog was recently redesigned to feature their “Subscribe to our e-newsletter&# pitch over the ability to subscribe to their blog via RSS.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

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. 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.

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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. Note that there is a link to the blog post in the pin and that clicking the photo. e-Newsletter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Finally, once you have either logged in to your Gmail Account or created a new one and selected the “You+” link, do not be tempted to convert your new personal Google+ Profile into brand (for example, first name “Amnesty” and last name “International”) to avoid being on Google+ personally. Powerful stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Finally, once you have either logged in to your Gmail Account or created a new one and selected the “You+” link, do not be tempted to convert your new personal Google+ Profile into brand (for example, first name “Amnesty” and last name “International”) to avoid being on Google+ personally. Powerful stats.

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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. Have a Consistent Design throughout All Secondary Navigation and Content Pages. A good Content management System (CMS) will take care of this for you. Keep bullet-pointed content short. You can view their website at defenders.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! It provides a huge return on investment. I've used this license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

Flickr Photo by JC Burns. Earlier this week, I wrote a post called “ Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging &# about the art and science of curating information. Danielle Brigida’s Wildlife News (excellent example of how useful this could be for an organization’s content strategy).

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Think about goals and audience: Before you create content, first think about the ultimate goal and the target audience. For example, if youre trying to reach new donors, consider participating in #GivingTuesday (in addition to running your year-end campaign) to help increase visibility by connecting to this broader movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. Yes, they did give me a photo credit.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. View the Screencast here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. We’ll share tips, resources, and tools for saving time on engaging in conversations, listening, content strategy, measurement, tools and more. Or making you want to find a few examples, just post your query. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. charity: water , a nonprofit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, is leading the way when it comes to redefining nonprofit marketing; they are exceptional at inbound marketing, focusing on creating powerful content to inspire people to join their cause.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). So maybe this isn't "LOC Rocks Flickr."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Shirky specifically about the avenues of participation, content, and convening online. After taking some pictures at the local holiday parade, she finds that many others wanted to post their pictures on Flickr and started a group to pull them all together. I asked Prof. How do nonprofits participate online differently than individuals?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? 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. Does the message you send depend on where people connect to your organization?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. I like this resource for maps, flags, and people photos. I use the advanced search feature.

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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. If you know of other tools (or tips) that make you more efficient managing content, engagement, and tracking on social media, please share them in the comments. Planning Content on Weekly Basis. Guest Post by James Young , SpredFast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. The content doesn’t only include “finished&# reports, but also works in progress like the the Goldmine Research project. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I asked Brooke McMillan, Online Community Evangelist, for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to share some examples of how they engage with their community. Here are a few examples of how we engage with our community to make this day a success: 1. Take for example, this post about celebrating " Livestrong Day at Work.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. You also need to think through your content and engagement strategy. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy).

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