Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. It uses the four p’s of time management: planning, people, priorities, and being present. For example, this might be a good opportunity to read that great article about a professional topic that you bookmarked but never have time to read.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. For example were you the first or only one to do something? Here’s a few good examples of Twitter Elevator pitches. Here’s one for Twitter. Be distinctive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. prezi I presented in August. Here is a rough narrative to accompany my ‘What does the data say?’

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MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. Have you seen hashtags (#) being used and curious what they mean - maybe for #FollowFriday for example. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one! Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by lyzadanger. I added this link to my nonprofit content curation list and discovered some conversation from other curators, including this one from presentation from Steve Rubel from June. For example, Facebook produces 30 billion pieces of content a day. Hubspot points to a recent study from Bit.ly

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cute animals rule the social web! The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Ethan’s presentation takes a look at creative uses of well-known Web 2.0 Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory.

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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 ). Flickr has that content (and makes the photo easier to find).

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JULY 8, 2014

Here are a few examples: You’re working on a marketing plan and you see an e-mail come in about a press release that needs to be revised, and switch tasks to work on it. If you answered that the first two examples were unwelcome or bad interruptions, then you are right, while the last example is a welcome interruption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. This informative post is based on a recent webinar presented by the Ad Council provides an overview of how to understand the return on your time investment. Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. By Sacha Evans. Here are our crib notes.

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MARCH 31, 2007

Below, I have picked a few select photos: the rest are on my Flickr page. Salman Ahmed got the crowd pumping as before, and then we met our four rockstar presenters (well, at least one is literally a rock star, and the other three have a pretty good claim to the status): Jeff Skoll, Peter Gabriel, Sally Osberg and Muhammad Yunus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. This helps presenters gauge the audience and figure out whether to dial up or dial down their presentation.

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What they found, interestingly, was that many reported using each channel primarily for a particular purpose—for example, for a given organization, 80 percent of what they do on a given channel is create new content, with only limited effort devoted to other uses. View more presentations from NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Vine is the perfect example, a social network that responded to more people wanting to create videos with their smartphones.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Also, Defenders of Wildlife is listed as an “Example of Excellence” in the book. Whether we like it or not, information overload is a part of our culture now, and the design and tone of your nonprofit’s website need to take this shift in communication seriously and present your website accordingly. Simplicity is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector. among many other awesome examples & possibilities).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

My Flickr Photos. My Flickr Photos. I'm preparing for a couple of presentations this month for different audiences. I'm going to talk about how nonprofits are using flickr, social networks, and twitter. Also looking for any examples of health Sonny Cloward let me know about Lee LeFevere's latest video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by hanspoldoja. For example, I sat in on the excellent breakout on Beneficiary Feedback with CEP’s Youth Truth and the Hogg Foundation (Hook ‘em Horns, my MBA alma mater). 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

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. I was in a random hotel ballroom in Denver, ready to present on the importance of social media to over 60 social media managers from LGBT choirs around the world. But I was also asked to present on Social Media and the Arts at this “Gay Chorus Olympics.”. The critical path quickly became clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. This FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. Have some examples? Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. For example, if someone cares enough to add an app from the Red Cross that publishes an update whenever they give blood, it’s that much more important for us to thank and reward that donor once they actually show up at the blood center.” And, that is how they measure success.

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MAY 26, 2011

Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. Social media presents incredible opportunities for nonprofits, both large and small. Here’s how her talk was described in the program. Social Media: Getting Leadership Buy-In.

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JUNE 27, 2016

This is an example of a community using video to capture the inspiration inherent in its nonprofit mission. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Together, they are wonderful examples of the uses of digital storytelling for advocacy and fundraising.

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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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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. Follow Shub @shubsengupta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. The Ocean Conservancy is dedicated to the goal of a healthy ocean by increasing public awareness of ocean issues and bringing significant changes to the way oceans are managed. The first step she took was to make a presentation to staff about what she had learned.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Flickr: Jeff_Werner Over in the Nonprofit Webmasters affinity group , Melissa Barry from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation started a great conversation. Luckily, the group was quick to respond with resources, reviews, and examples. Once you've got that figured out, evaluate how your audience is likely to receive that information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

as an inital example), Kevin Carey of HumanITy invited Hiroshi Kawamura, the new President of the DAISY Consortium and me to lunch on Brighton beach. For example, disabled people are very concerned about access to education and employment. When teacher is present, it's about textbook access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research. Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. For example, the Humane Society uses social media primarily for customer service, while Global Giving uses it to drive fundraising. Reporting Social To Stakeholders: Guest Post by Meg Biallis. Lewis explained that one of the Humane Society’s board members used to work at AOL. Quantify what you’re looking for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo. I like the framework that How To Develop a Social Media Plan by Mashable presents. I would love to see an example of a nonprofit's social media plan.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. The call for talks and presentations is now live and the deadline is February 17th! Here is an example of the new tools that will be available soon! Lastly, ever been to a really bad presentation? Check out these communications #fails , which really do sum up an awful presentation. Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

From one of my favorite edtech blogger, Alan Levine (fellow lab lover) comes this Flickrtation - using flickr for a presentation. Here's what they say about the this new genre This presention is being completely delivered as a flickr photoset. I really like the use of flickr for presentations instead of powerpoint.

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