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.

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Technology Minnesota Social Media Case Study 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. In these examples, staff are continually producing new content and interacting with the community via comment boards and other uploaded user-generated content.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. My favorites are the YouTube videos--of contributors introducing themselves and their work (the best!), I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. After the parade, she posted pictures on Flickr and wrote a thank you blog post that includes a roundup of other discussion about the event on the web. This is really tough.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

So we will spend Y to make short videos on our own and post them on video sharing sites like YouTube instead." Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. We are willing to spend Y to reach 1,000 people. With Beck Tench, their in-house Web 2.0

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