Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. Yes, yes… I know.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. You know why I started to twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

I found this in flickr tonight in Nancy's flickr stream. Then I go to Marc Sirkin's blog Why not just jump off the cliff and have some fun experimenting? and we're going to let it fly for a whlie on our LLS myspace profile. that they are doing something wrong experimenting. Time Originally uploaded by Choconancy1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. MoveOn Ever Spent: Flickr via Jon Stahl. The article describes how MoveOn is experimenting with flickr, believed to be the first political campaign to make use of flickr. He adds, ???It's

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. You can share (and customize/edit/color) your photos to Twitter, Flickr, and your personal Facebook profile, but only if you have an iPhone. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. They were supportive and encouraged me to test and experiment. What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again. And even if Google+ doesn’t turn out to be the Next Big Thing, referral traffic in the early adoption phase is high enough to make experimenting worth your time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

There’s a powerful synergy that begins to occur when your nonprofit has a presence on multiple on social networks and unfortunately most nonprofits never get to experience it due to capacity issues. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Speak directly to your users and interact with them; they have amazing stories and experiences. 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. A passionate user base is invaluable. Your approach should be integrative.

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APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Everyone is a Curator.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

The LAF goes beyond a mere presence on social networks, it has taken a maven approach, engaging deeply with supporters with a regularly updated blog , MySpace , Facebook , YouTube , and Twitter presences. An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community.

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MARCH 4, 2008

In other words, it won't get in your way as you navigate across the web and it will feel inadequate (like you can't breathe) if your friends or social network or "social graph" isn't part of your everyday web experience. A cool app created with the Flickr API that is twitter on flickr. gspwest08.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Even the most traditional museums often manage educational programs in which teens develop their own exhibits, produce youth-focused museum events, or provide educational experiences for younger visitors. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I realize that finding the time to experiment for many of us can be difficult, especially if those experiments do not lead to direct outcomes. And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Download it here. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Ivan is one of a small number of nonprofit early adopters in social media and social networks - he has a couple of years of experience under his belt - so his wisdom is priceless.

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2008

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I especially like the "after the event" tips: Once you get home, do your best to find the most pertinent business cards you collected during the experience and drop a quick, personal email. Remind them in that brief contact about something you both discussed, to connect your email address with the experience. Sorry, but it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

Experiment under the radar and show them the successful results: Our strategy at HSUS was to dive into everything we could at first, under the radar, find what works, and present the results to upper management. That, of course, means that you've carefully thought through what metrics and measurement you'll use to track your experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

MySpace - to stay connected / reach out to potential supporters. Flickr - to host photos from events we have attended and hosted. (this will be launched by the end of the month) Keeping an updated blog about what we are working on and to show the diverse voices of our staff. Building an online presence on Social Networking / Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Based on my own experience, and after reading posts about blog traffic by folks like Seth Godin , Darren Rowse of ProBlogger , and others , here is a list of tips I've compiled: Post regularly. Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. Run a contest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular. They're familiar with it. you have video, you post it on You Tube.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. Everything here is mission-driven, and we have a mission that’s very much about the visitor experience and community. We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2010

I have no idea if using Flickr to distribute and archive photo and press releases will appeal to the media and/or blogosphere, but I got the idea from what I think is the best nonprofit photostream on Flickr: The UN Refugee Agency. Just a new twist on how to use Flickr. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Full disclosure. Use Bit.ly

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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. Listening: If you are new to social media, this should be the objective for your first experiment with social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. Mari Velasco: We have made some recent changes to expand our use of new web tools, but there's always more we could do!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: What About Myspace? A New Myspace has launched.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. Digital media is being shaped by the private sector (YouTube, MySpace, etc). Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: What About Myspace? A New Myspace has launched.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. So, I really need reap experience to create a checklist, templates, and a worksheet. By the end of the experience, will have some beginnings of a checklist, templates, and worksheets. What do you think?

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