Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series. Here’s his reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

The newest one is called the Warholizer Now, I know where one of last week's Creative Commons Flickr photo entrants might possibly have gotten their inspiration. I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2006

Flickr has added a new feature to its organizer - the ability to add geotags to your photos. There is now a map tab where you can navigate to a location and then automatically add the geotags to that location to a flickr photo or batch of photos. But it gets better: flickr is now using screencasts!

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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. MoveOn's flickr home page and flickr tags page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. By: Rebecca Shore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Here's an interview with Nature Conservancy staff members Evan Parker and Susan Citro about how the organization is using Flickr. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? We have had really great success on both fronts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

So, while I'm waiting for my 2800 plus email messages to download and organizing almost as many flickr photos, I discovered a wonderful new FREE mapping program called Wayfaring. So, I plotted our vacation where we logged almost as many miles as I have email messages and linked to flickr photo sets. Pretty cool? Pretty cool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The central question of the Networked Nonprofit is how organizations can embrace the change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! Meet Susan Silverman. I was teaching Web1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. What are people saying about our organization ("brand")? . What communities have already formed on social media outposts around our organization, issue, or topic area?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2007

My Flickr Stream. A few months ago, Rebecca Krause-Hardie and I co-wrote an article for ArtsReach Magazine about how arts organizations are mixing in social media strategies. If you are interested in learning about how arts organizations are using the social web, read Becky's blog! You can find a copy of the article here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

My Flickr photos here ) (He mentioned that he picked up the microphones in the CMU trash - boy I wish I could lurk in those trash cans!). There was a lot of interest from the audience so I suspect this means we may be hearing a few more arts organizations in the nonprofit podcasting space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. In fact, we (that is, we organizations) kind of love them. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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APRIL 12, 2006

Is the title of a research study by William Jones, Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak, Rajdeep Gill, and Harry Bruce that explores the way people organize information in support of projects ("teach a course,' "plan a wedding", etc.) The folder structures to organize project information ??? Now, all we need is the audio and flickr streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mike Monteiro NTEN's We Are Media : where the community is the curriculum ! Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. There is a long history of charity balls, in the early years organized by the "Ladies Auxiliary" and chronicled in the society pages of major newspapers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Extra bonus: point me to a fantastic image (cc licensed) in flickr that can be used to illustrate the post. Describe what you think a contribution to this charity in someone's honor as a holiday gift would be an awesome gift. In LESS than three sentences. Include a link to the charity's web site 4.) IT WILL GET LOST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn’t fit!). After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. September 14, 1986. We’ve been together for 32 years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? It lays out some the benefits, but also suggests situations where a social networking strategy is probably not right for your organization. Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? This thinking approach keeps us from fondling the hammer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. As projects get more complex or your organization is trying to accomplish more with less resources, it gets harder to accomplish without more intentional planning. Organization loses focus. How does your organization avoid crisis mode and fire drills? Leader loses credibility.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. It should leave your audience wanting more, while answering the essential questions about your organization. Who does your organization/endeavor benefit? How does your organization benefit someone? Here’s one for Twitter. It grabs attention and says a lot in a few words.

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APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Within in about 5-10 minutes, we had over 100 comments (plus lots of annotations on the photo using the notes feature on Flickr).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr Photo by epsos.de. I like the phrase “curiosity-driven.&# That an organization knows the questions to right ask, how to collect the right data to answer those questions. Above all the organization uses its collective wisdom to making decisions. He suggests a new term, “data informed.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. You might be wondering how does an organization or an individual “abuses” self-care. Agus, author of “ The Lucky Years ” recently wrote in an editorial in the WSJ about the need for organizations to hire “Chief Health Officer.” There are three ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts. Words to live by!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. We invite everyone to join us this month as we explore how to make our organization’s social media use effective or improve our own practice. See you there! Last month, our theme was measurement and we shared a summary of the best measurement tips and resources here , here , and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. The term “data-driven” has been used to describe organizations that rely solely on cold hard data to make decisions. The term “data-driven” has been used to describe organizations that rely solely on cold hard data to make decisions. Too often organizations chose KPIs that simply reflect activity.

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