Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. These characters can then become common reference points for your team. ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.” How old are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. By getting to know these ideas, we blend them into our own frame of reference, creating something that is changed, if not wholly new. Guest post by Kate Wing. We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Flickr Photo by John Grocki. During the discussion, someone shared a reference to the book, “ Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing &# by John Mason. The book provides a theory, practice, and framework on reflection as related to professional development. What works? What doesn’t?

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MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Look for additional references , quotes , reviews, citations or stories that can help complement the existing view. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Searches: When you spot the awesome, spend time looking for more content and context to add to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. Mario Morino uses the phrase “information-based introspection” to refer to using and applying data in context to excel. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Why Not Data-Driven?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . It wasn't really a pitch.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. The framers need a reference for the curved arch. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. So what makes Flickr so useful? Now I always use Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

For example, there is a simple way to use Flickr and a custom email address to aggregate photos from your constituents to then create a photo of the day similar to @CharityWater. Google Analytics – for free – can show you referring traffic from different followers on Twitter, it can show who sends quantity AND quality traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2008

Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. I refer people to his blog. His blog was one of the first I discovered and have been hooked ever since. And he loves dogs). I've learned a lot from Alan. I trust him. But we've never met face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Flickr Photo by Mangee. He references the How To Say No podcast that gives you a method for saying no. Some of you in the nonprofit technology field may remember this wonderful cartoon " Time Management for Techies " created by Miriam Engelberg who we lost breast cancer about two years ago. Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2007

That's a photo of me with Andy Goodman at the break during the Keynote workshop on Story Telling as Best Practice. " (I referred to this book in one of my first screencasts in using flickr for presentations ) What I learned deeply influenced and changed my practice in presenting.

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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 ! We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll we out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Spread the word through comments sections of online news stories; these comments became major referring source to our website for that week. They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. The 18 minutes refers to the importance of creating a daily habit of reflection and focus on what you want to accomplish, knowing that you won’t get everything done. This book is a gem. Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Flickr photo by zen??? Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. But soon realized it was from Hamburger Helper???s My Hometown Helper???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first C, Content, refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

We then moved upstairs to the roof top lunch deck where I asked Randi some questions that I crowd sourced from people via my Facebook Fan Page and took some photos. Is there a statistical reference for total money raised in Facebook Causes? A lot these questions were about feature requests. More of my photos and videos on Flickr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Upload your bread recipe with a photo or video. The participant who refers the most donations will receive a $500 Amazon voucher, and have their name on a Breadline Africa kitchen built from a converted shipping container. Flickr photo credit: Bread uploaded by Jeremy Keith. And many more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Beth's Flickr Stream. But one scenario, well I had that very question in a video I just published : I create a short movie, comprised of a video clip and three digital photos that I took, my -over and a royalty-free soundtrack song, which I bought from Premium Beat. What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it!

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo: Caro Wallis (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Deborah Elizabeth Finn provides a partially-tongue-in-cheek reference for technology providers to consider before addressing a small nonprofit. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. We engage in multiple social networks, some that you probably also use: Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Flickr , Slideshare , our own blog , and a few other networks. So, I’m going to explore this theme over the coming weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Charlene also references another important issue - the issue of your friending policies if you are using these tools to support or enhance a professional network. Flickr: On flickr, I pretty much friend people who request it. Flickr: On flickr, I pretty much friend people who request it. I don't friend them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. As Britt notes in her live blogging guidelines: The main goal of your posts is to provide information about the Projects that voters can refer to when it comes time to cast their ballot since they won't be able to attend all of the sessions. We aren't just taking notes for ourself. Talk about pressure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

My Flickr Set: RootsCamp SL Machimina Session. The article includes a pointer to a YouTube video of a presentation of how Bells and Spurs (here's a pointer to the references in a photo I took of myself on the set several months ago) movie was made in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

According to DonorsChoose: "low income" refers to the percentage of students at a given school who qualify for free lunch, which is considered a measure of economic need. 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

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. t that bad.

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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. From Flickr User EJK. Adding a new data point to it. Another example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life. The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. ll come away with a basic understanding of and context for the words that are buzzing around us, along with references for continued exploration. I'm headed to the UK in January for the Lasa conference and will be presenting with David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. This year, I decided to create a New Year's post that looks at both format and content so I have a handy reference for my year-end post for 2009! It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Ah, but what format to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

it refers to the things you can do with an image without permission. There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. There is some advice on fair use: Don't I get to reprint an image without permission under the "fair use" doctrine? While "fair use" is a somewhat nebulous term ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

WorldChanging Book: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century You can find more blogs using blog search engines: Google Blog Search Technorati You can read blogs in a feed reader like: Bloglines Rojo Google Reader Create your own blog with one of these “platforms”: Blogger Wordpress.com Wordpress.org Typepad Movable Type Your blog readers (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

ll search my own blog to get that reference. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal. t tell you how many times I???ve ve tried to remember when something happened or what the circumstances were that led me to a given point, and I???ll s always fun when I???m

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