Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

It refers to a corporation’s responsibility to shoulder the impact they have on the economy. He describes the use of a “flash mob&# going to a shareholder’s meeting and demanding a claw-back for ill-gotten bonuses. Fiscal Responsibility: In the book, this term is not used an accounting term.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Says Sue, “Beyond tagging and shout outs on Twitter, we organized Pittsburgh’s first ever #blogmob (play on flash mob) , inviting local foodie bloggers to come out to the Food Bank for a tour, a chance to observe a food distribution, and general discussion. Sue has also collaborated on social media activities with the food bank.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

Before I even set up this quick flash poll , I received an email from a colleague who had already compared and benchmarked their page with peer organizations using ”PATP” – dividing the total People Talking About number by the total of Facebook likes.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

WFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. Get the bit of code you need here What is SWF?

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

I've never met Kilong, but we've exchanged emails and I sent khmer alphabet flash cards for their literacy program a few years back. He is very interested in Cambodia and a colleague of Kilong Ung , Cambodian-American who is based on Portland and local leader in the Cambodian community.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Unfortunately, I had an epic FLASH failure which prevented me from hearing the live streamed program in real time. Luckily, there was an incredible Twitter stream using the hashtag #mdc11 and some of my favorite nonprofit Millenials (and Babyboomers and Genxers) were sharing nuggets of insight.

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JUNE 30, 2009

All the happy (and sad) memories of living in the house for twenty years flashed before my eyes - it was bittersweet. After a year of preparing, moving day has arrived. We spent the day overseeing the move our belongings from the house into the truck. To reduce camera shake (until I figure out if I want to spend money on tripod).

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APRIL 7, 2007

Click To Play Flash Version Click To Play Quicktime Version Music: Voyage Black. I made that yesterday after I scored two blow-up Penguins for Harry and Sara. The Penguins made their appearance outside my hotel room and I was instructed to bring them to the morning breakfast at the NTC. It was a creative promotion of Penguin Day at the NTC!

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Flash forward 18 months, and I’ve become a measurement evangelist. I was part of a peer learning group Beth convened when she was writing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. I was excited and terrified, and, ultimately, did not complete my action learning project. Work intervened. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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MAY 25, 2009

Now the Smithsonian Institution, in a flash of cloud like behavior , is coming to life on the social web. Over the weekend, I took my kids to the movie, Night of Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. They thoroughly enjoyed watching the exhibits come to life. (My My kids especially liked the Einstein bobbing heads).

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AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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MARCH 10, 2009

It's an interactive flash site that lets users find and adopt words that are in danger of being removed from the dictionary. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic. Earlier this week, I was inspired by my good colleague, Alan Levine (aka Cogdog), I visited Save the Words. I adopted the word archiloquy.

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OCTOBER 18, 2005

This week's Nonprofit Onlines has yet another tasty nugget -- a pointer to a flash-based mind mapping tool called Mayomi. Just added to my list. The holy grail for me would be an online web app where people could do collaborative web maps online.

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OCTOBER 5, 2006

It is seven minutes long flash movie file produced at 640x480. They also removed the Camtasia flash loading animation with their own. (I They "set the stage" in firefox with getting the different links in tabs and just tabbed back and forth to show the different pages. Technical Observations. Leave a comment.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The flash-study found that branded pages lost about 6.5% After learning of the change, Edgerank Checker was quick to conduct a study, they compared analytics from 3,000 Facebook pages the week before the change and the week after. So the new algorithm certainly seems to be having an impact.

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JANUARY 27, 2006

Dave's sig line gave me an instant flash of what's he up to lately: Technology Director, Lower Eastside Girls Club Ex-Television hack, podcaster, Maya maniac Blog for girls cheerleader. (I don't track this stuff closely anymore, but pointed him to a few other sources.). The bakery.)

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

The Working Wikily blog describes this effort as a "flash cause," I'm not sure, I think it is hybrid. Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing?

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MARCH 21, 2010

At this year's SXSW, I was invited to participate on a flash panel about women and technology conferences which ended up being about mentoring. In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. namo Bay.

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JULY 29, 2008

s long-term and sustainable instead of another flash in the pan. So before you jump into the online community pool, there is a lot of heavy lifting to do up front. A lot of questions to be asked. And a lot of hard work to make sure you create something that???s The first thing to keep in mind? Otherwise you???

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MAY 13, 2009

It is extraordinarily difficult to show any flash of originality. And such flashes of originality made sense only when embedded in a surround of other people's work.". In fact, 90 percent of anything we create is borrowed.

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APRIL 29, 2010

   And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare. .  "If you goal is to dip your toes into the waters of social media, then your measure is the dampness of your toes." " I like the idea of leveraging a networked effect of the swarm badge.  

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In this living case study, the staff person from the Seattle Symphony shared how they did conversion tracking. I asked her where they got the idea for doing a flash mob. It directly increased ticket sales.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

How about Flash Back Friday ? With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. Don’t like Throw Back Thursday? Make up your own nostalgia meme. Engage Alumni in Professional Conversations Related To Their Careers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

They do have some video clips and flash movies, but these aren't exactly vlogging. Now there are four, including the Film/Video department. They posted some notes about their future plans for podcasting. I wonder if they considered vlogging? Maybe I missed it, but why aren't they vlogging it? (I I think I might know the answer to that one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

The latter is a technical issue that Stephen Downes provided more advice about: What I would get rid of is: - anything in Flash, especially if it comes from another site - other things that come from other sites. -Does have the ability to encourage more conversation or comments? How much does it contributes to slow loading?

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Danielle Bridiga, from the NWF, says “I’m still not sure if it’s going to hold out and join Twitter and Facebook but I think it’s certainly kept my attention a bit longer than other flash in the pan platforms.&# NWF is in the “imaging&# stage of what the potential is for the platform.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2006

I also got some advice on how to spread the Revver video without using the flash player. I also include some specific ways folks can help other give money. I'll point to this in my email campaign to contacts which I'll be doing over the next week. I used that in my post and for a post in flickr.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. I led him and my mother to the sofa in my living room – complete with modern comforts like heat and light. It’s not a nightmare,” I said, “It’s for real.”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Their widgets create embeddable Flash player or recorder. If this experiment works out, I'd love to include it in the screencast. About this widget. This widget comes to you via Odeo , a service that lets you record and share audio files???and All your visitors need to do is click, record, and send.

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JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. All the great features of Facebook are available - writing on the Wall, uploading photos, and joining discussion groups. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Stand up 2 Cancer.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

I saw how to do podcasts with a cell phone at NCDD, but I didn't know that Hipcast will translate your avi or other video format into a more friendly format and post on your blog as a flash video with a link to the Quicktime format.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

"on my free time i like to liseting music,so i want to win a flash mediaplayer." We announced the day before that prizes would be awarded and to apply, they had to leave a comment on the conference blog with how they would use the camera or record. Details Are Sketchy suggested : Our vote goes to Nguon Chan Sokhom ??? for honesty.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Person's personality * Podcast cover * Description * Show name * Art that shows up alongside your podcast * Page where you podcast sits - design -- not a simple flash player (wordpress has a plugin called podpress). What things attract you to subscribe?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

Embed Powerpoint Slides as Flash Presentations in your Blog without Spending a Dime , I just had to try it. The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. After seeing Nancy White's experiment and discovering Amit Agarwal's excellent instructions for.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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