Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2012

A few examples of Asian nonprofits that excel in their use of social media will be featured, but since 90% of last year’s attendees were from Australia and New Zealand – those countries and their nonprofits will be the primary focus. November 6: YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. October 23: Facebook Pages and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

e-Newsletter. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog. Here’s an example from Amnesty International : 4. This list will be updated monthly as we all learn how to better use Pinterest. Step Two :: Pin It!

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. Also, Defenders of Wildlife is listed as an “Example of Excellence” in the book.

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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. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

e-Newsletter. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog. Here’s an example from Amnesty International : 6. For example, you can see the pins driving traffic to Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Step Two :: Pin It!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

When people who work in services, programs, grant writing and fundraising, for example, all share their view of the groups in the community, not only can you start mapping the network but you can also have really rich discussions about the way different parts of your organization view the community. New grants or new programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. A List of Examples. It isn??????t

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Pitch to Your Website, E-newsletter, Blog, and Print Materials. This new page should then be linked near the e-newsletter subscribe option on your website and blog. page in your e-newsletter (80 percent of new group text subscribers come from email lists!) Add a “Subscribe to Receive Text Alerts!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

e-Newsletter. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

e-Newsletter. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. We sometimes hear our clients reference their user stories in their day-to-day work like “well, this month’s newsletter is more for Josh or Sally than Maurice.” You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. Survey Your Tribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

e-Newsletter. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog. Here’s an example from Amnesty International : 6. For example, you can see the pins driving traffic to Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Step Two :: Pin It!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2009

We have even published the Online Community Report newsletter for 13 years (yikes). Newsletters (two). At this point our efforts are prioritized into three categories: Receive high effort: Web, Blogs, Twitter, Newsletters. Receive low effort / watching: LinkedIn, Facebook, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, Paid channels.

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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. Check out Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Livingston - corporate example, Network Solutions, negative perseption issues related to their brand (google your organization’s name and “sucks&# and see what comes up!), Have you seen examples of your org changing? NWF - there is no failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Take for example the Community Media Workshop's Ning Site which is used to complement their face-to-face training session. Every broadcast of our subscription based e-newsletter highlights headlines not only from our online broadcasts but also user generated posts and also a call to join the network. s about more than raising money.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. The important thing is having the conversation.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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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. I read in the NTEN newsletter where there was call for Affinity Group Meetings. Top Three Takeaways. Overview of the tools needed.

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NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2009

Flickr: forumone Amy Sample Ward wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review about community building and the gardening metaphor. If you've been looking for examples and tips on appropriate voice and strategy, this post is gold. Maybe you've heard the gardening metaphor before, but have you heard about landscaping?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. For example, the MomsRising food blog carnival was part of a larger campaign that included coalition partners Pew, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and PreventObesity.net as well as other child advocates and nutritional experts. Numerous coalition staff members mentioned the blog carnival on their networks.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Here are some examples of thanking policies: 1. Monthly e-newsletter themes. photo cred: Sparklehausen, Flickr Creative Commons. Another way to make this process less overwhelming is to decide different levels attention for different levels of donations. Do you have a donations policy? Why not create a thanking policy?

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. It's this month's topic here at NTEN (and you should subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive the compiled "best of" version of these articles later this week). Should they alphabetize the names? List them chronologically? From the article: ".

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

And speaking of images, we want to allow people to add notes like Flickr does. Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

e-Newsletter. A section of the e-newsletter entitled “Resource Spotlight” features a new tool in each edition. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Sites like Facebook , Twitter , YouTube (know about the new nonprofit call to action ), LinkedIn and Flickr are becoming exceedingly important to any nonprofits online presence. For example you can take the link to this page which is normally pretty long and shrink it to this [link]. See some of the reasons here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2006

Erica Sonnier with daughters and new puppy ( photo on flickr). Blogs are your online newsletter, coffee break and gossip corner. Take for example, Eiffel, the lovely lab of our VP of Operations and our CTO, who is the Director of Employee Relations ( [link] ). Erica Sonnier is the ???Blog Blog Administrator??? But she doesn???t

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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 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

For example, our goals with social media should identify the influence or impact we want to make, but not necessarily say we will do it on facebook. Be sure you’re tracking what happens on your website, newsletter, and others actions like whether staff were mentioned in the news or on a blog, if staff attend or present at an event, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Having a robust content strategy that can feed multiple channels – web site, print, email newsletter, social media outposts, and now mobile – is critical to success. Flickr Photo by drachenspinne. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 6. Bust Your Content Silos.

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