Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your 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. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! I wanted to share the short “defense&# of Community Managers that I wrote to get your feedback as well as to gather your ideas, examples and so on of why Community Managers are important to our work! What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

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. For example, Oceana has set a Default Landing Tab on their Facebook Page that urges people to take action – which then builds their e-mail list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2012

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. Photo credit: Flickr: ToastyKen ). What gets you thinking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? Absolutely brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. But when you come into your workplace, the culture and the environment does not support happy, healthy. For example, the break rooms have vending machines with salty and sugary snacks and the fridge is stocked with sodas, not water. And, people sit at their desks working without taking a break.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. For example, this change included sharing our collections online. After hours events, for example, required changing the way we did things. We transformed from transmit to recieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. A great example is our recently completed evaluation of goodWORKSconnect, our nonprofit network and resource center found here. She shared some examples of how organizations are being transparent. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr by Leo Reynolds. Donors Choose ([link] for example, allows people to pool small donations to help enterprising teachers get funding for classroom projects. We’ll focus on the fancy tools of mapping and graphing; we’ll have debates about terminology and definitions. Guest post by Paula Goldman.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

And, there were many projects that definitely fell under the RTF umbrella. And that's just two examples. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)! The goal is to get more people working to make this happen: getting access tech to every person in the world who needs it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. We got 100 comments 5 minutes from nonprofit and other professionals sharing why they thought it was valuable.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

If you share feedback or examples that make their way, I’ll certainly give you credit. Normally, I make sure to clarify definitions when I start. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ). The keynote will focus on “Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation”. The Impact on Institutions.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. Which means it's the perfect time to invest in your professional development, and seek out opportunities for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

There is definite and measurable progress being made. 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. Read up on Flickr and look at different examples by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. We launched the Zoetica Salon this week. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. Getting Started: The Importance of Small Proof of Pilots With Measurement Component.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The definition of engagement that most resonates with us is Jeremiah Owyang ’s definition: “the level of authentic involvement, intensity, contribution, and ownership.”. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website. What is "online engagement"? New media is a fantastic listening tool.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat.

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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!) The original photo is on Flickr and caught the eye of an editor from Esquire Magazine who was looking for photos to illustrate a piece about wedding photos. Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases by Brian Solis. Make it easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. The paper provides concepts and specific examples. " There are different types of networks or working in a networked way - it isn't just one definition or approach. It is heavily influenced by the writings of Clay Shirky ( Here Comes Everybody ). What does working wikily mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

For example, the social music site Last FM has a group called " Get Your Damn Tags Right " which pretty much does what it says on the tin. " (Answer: Pink Floyd as Punk) to threads asking for advice about what tag to use when tagging, Opera, for example. Definition of Feral: Feral (a): Of an animal: Wild, untamed.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with. If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. Credit to Flickr user: Aberdeen Proving Ground 10. Set "Who can pin items?"

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. Definitions. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. So I sent out a trial balloon on the list and in our flickr group discussion area. Top Three Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget? My first stop for definitions is the (online) dictionary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Flickr Photo by Lab2114. Take for example Connie Bensen 's post and story. Andy talks about the sacred bundle or a group stories that an organization should have (or expanded in this definition a loosely coupled community or network should have). Beth Dunn , who was getting up at 4:00 am, stayed up late to respond her blog.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. And, if you're in the New York city area, you should definitely check out this upcoming 501 Tech Club event: > Who's Your Mayor? NTEN is People! Members are in bold. FourSquare and location-based social networks for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

The definition of links or how you’re connected is defined however you want in social network analysis. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. The above visual is a social network. Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node. A connection between people is called link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I added a lot of visuals, I changed the examples, reorganized and tweaked the steps. You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. There are some definite pros/cons to the different approaches and I'll write about it later.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr. Just some quick examples: - Heidi Kuhn of Roots of Peace: Heidi has actually driven a great deal of real landmine removal, and she is very strong on the human and public side of the issue (somewhere where we are not strong). and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

is definitely an existential learner. Take for example some recent questions that he has asked me: Does the Tooth Fairy get bored with her job? On the other hand, Sara, Harry's sister, is definitely a visual learner. Flickr as a portfolio assessment tool.). What bank does the Tooth Fairy keep her money in?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. Listening leads to engagement. Pick the right ones! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. When colleague Dan Cohen told me of his recent experience using guided imagery in a social media workshop, I thought it was definitely valuable to share with others. For example, our staff guides a coalition in California to preserve the state’s investment in health and human services.

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