Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

   I met both of the artists and did live stream interviews with them.  Below are my flickr photos from the mural projects in the cafeteria.    Both murals illustrate the idea of nutritional eating.  

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APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. has great commentary about getting staff buy-in to technology projects: it’s the mission, stupid!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting).

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APRIL 27, 2009

List, Learn, Adapt - concept from David Armano: “Insight must before investment when implementing a social media project.&#. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. WeAreMedia Project ([link] has a listening toolbox!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. cogdog you need to use the flickr fdtoys and add something [ on the flickr photo ]. see flickr photo ]. to watch my talk and then was disappointed, not because she disagreed with me, but because the wanted to see more emphasis on the projects and the potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Photo by Stitch. Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. Photo Sharing. Life Stream. The phrase comes from Jeremiah Owyang in a post titled ' Stop Fondling the Hammer and Focus on the House."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. PopTech is an.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Marnie Webb is on a road trip.

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JULY 9, 2008

In spring 2008 the Stanford Innovation Review article, "Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights," featured the Regeneration Project's Interfaith Power and Light Campaign. You can download a copy of the article on the Regeneration Project site.

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AUGUST 15, 2006

Majora is the the founder and Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx , a nonprofit working to implement, "sustainable development projects for the South Bronx that are informed by the needs of the community and the values of Environmental Justice." Photo: majora from John Berrie's Flickr photo stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Beth's Flickr Stream. From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it! There are some issues related to the remix chain and what is or isn't fair use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. From Flickr User EJK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream.

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JULY 3, 2006

If you would like to support any of these projects, just click HERE , or click on the "donate to my challenge" button on the sidebar of this blog. blogger fundraising education bloggerschoose philanthropy Photo of Children's Garden from spacecadet's Flickr stream. This photo has an Attribution 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Search YouTube and Flickr for descriptive keywords that are part of your mission statement to see what your target audiences might find compelling and inspirational. rethink, reinvent. Jonathon Coleman ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Third Sector New England has launched a podcast series

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Follow the links from here. Who has time for Video?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! " and tells exactly why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you participated in the voting process to select the 21 Featured Projects going to the NetSquared Conference, and want to see what happens next, take a look at the Conference Agenda. The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! Do you have advice?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2006

From Mathew's flickr stream. He works for an arts agency and we've set on grant evaluation panels for arts and technology projects. He also relates my question to the arts sector specifically with the following points: The arts are in a unique position to leverage these video, audio, and photo sites.

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JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. Not only did Jonathan Fanton himself want to stay in touch with project. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Lucy Bernholz captured the video stream from blog.tv Second Life 101 - some great photos. And, I got an instant response.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

It is a big, beautiful magazine printed on thick paper with lots of photos and illustrations. Photo from GOOD Magazine Flickr Stream. The family's Blue Cross insurance has a "surgery deductible" and, "according to Blue Cross, sticking a tube up a child's nose to extract a rock is 'surgery.'" I chose UNICEF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " He used the example of Harry Potter books - not just reading them, but young people working on collaborative writing projects via the Web -- writing and getting feedback from peers around the world. NMC Flickr Photos.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! He somewhat dodged the answer, saying that MacArthur wanted to learn how to work with virtual worlds, to convene people and to bring virtual projects into making real world change. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Source: Flickr User Lynetter. In between plastering a copy of Hugo's photo ( Nina Simonds ' cat) on Facebook Profile and letting me know that blip.tv About Page Views Nielsen/Net Ratings , a growing web traffic tracking project with a world class reputation, announced this week. time on site.??? Total Minutes???

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JUNE 30, 2006

The podcast, Frontline Reports will feature emergency updates from Doctors without Borders projects all over the world. Photo via wayfaring stranger's Flickr stream. I just listened to the first podcast. It has a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 podcast nonprofit Doctors without Borders

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Apply your learnings to the next project. I started with very small and modest projects and have used AMORE along with intensive experimentation. Flickr photo by Beth. I'm going to call it AMORE. It replicable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. The examples so far: Audience Feedback/Organizational Listening - Message/Comments - as seen on Life Kludger - A survey/Poll as seen on the Bamboo Project. Streaming Headlines or Other Content from other Blogs or Links. -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Photo by Michaela Hackner, Kalabird. Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. I'm also an avid photographer too, my flickr stream houses all my images in case you are interested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Emily Weinberg from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project ChipIn News Blog CrowdFunding (that is that awesome vlogger Sull) First-of-its-Kind (Peter Dietz - excellent advice on how to go about these campaigns) My Cambodian blogger colleagues have linked or posted about the campaign. re doing and ask ???em

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JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Engagement Strategie s.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. I get many, many requests or rather pitches to write about a specific project or product. I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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