Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

My big birthday is coming up this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Remix Contest. Create a birthday card by remixing a photo of Beth or remix one of your own (any photo) and send it into the Beth5.0 Here's how you can wish me a happy birthday with some cute or entertaining user generated content web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo. My colleague, Liz Henry , pinged this morning asked me to take a photo of myself the above sign. EFF and partner organizations will be bringing these photos to lawmakers, reminding them that Americans demand their privacy rights and deserve their day in court against lawbreaking telecoms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2006

This kind soul happen to walk by when the flickr blogher meetup birds of a feather session ended and we needed a group photo. I know that the photo was taken on this blogher's camera phone. But I can't find her card and I can't find the photo. I'd love to see the photos that others took? Can anyone help? Where are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

  (WE'll be announcing this week's winners late on Friday) Photo Sharing tools are Internet sites where anyone can upload, share, and organize their digital photos with friends, family, colleagues, and the rest of the world.    WHich ones have nonprofits been using?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2007

So, I decided to select the top five flickr photos tagged with those words. In this case, the top five photos I liked. You'll have to click through to see an enlarged photo, but apparently this place offers bikini bull riding. This photo is a manhattan in a martini glass. I like the composition. It was tagged Martini.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

I'm going to quote them here: Is the subject of the photo copyrighted? If the photo is of, say, a TV screen showing a newscast or a newspaper page showing a staff photo, then you still might be liable for copyright violation despite the terms of the CC license listed on Flickr or elsewhere. If you're not sure, ask before using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

The Flickr photo sharing service has teamed up with TechSoup Stock to offer premium "pro" accounts to individuals within eligible organizations. We will explore how to make the most of Flickr and other photo-sharing and editing webtools for your organization. We will share tips for organizing and managing your photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Photo in flickr. Creative Commons is running a Flickr Contest encouraging people to use their photographic skills to support Creative Commons. The official rules are here. What a great idea! Technorati Tags: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Last week when I blogged that won the Creative Commons flickr photo contest, the prize I got was Lessig's on my answering machine. In today's email, J Wynia, shared with me a tool he created with the Flickr API that lets me search for interesting photos that I can remix or use and automatically generates the attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Lacking any programming skills to speak of, I've been looking at widgets and tools that put an easy interface to flickr that let you display photos. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user. So, I went to the pool and added a unique tag to the 17 photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2006

My friend Franziska Marks emailed me to say she spotted a photo of me here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Here's the email message I received: I stumbled upon your slide show of beautiful photos of Cambodia. We really think that your photo is absolutely stunning and it fits in perfectly within the site. It has been used for the Facing History site as part of Arn Chorn Pond's story. I'm so honored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Flickr Photo Remix Cards are all wonderful so I'm going to start blogging them!! The other option might be to see I can stream all the photos in the group and have them display in a post. This one is from Mike. It is generated by www.deviousgelatin.com/montager using the flickr tag 'beth5.0'. Here's the information. Ideas welcome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Photo by Eric Janssen. You should have a repertoire of stretches that you do at your desk throughout the day, but I also like to encourage stretch breaks during virtual meetings workshops, and webinars, especially if they run longer than 60 minutes. I love this idea for reducing zoom fatigue and techno stress. He made them do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

His complete set of Blogher photos are awesome.). Halley Suitt Originally uploaded by jdlasica. As I was browsing the flickr stream , I found this stunning photograph of Halley Suitt of Halley's Comment by JD Lasica , a bloghim. ( During the opening session , she made the point that women should ask for links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. The photo looked familiar and I realized, Oh My God, it's mine!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Think about AI and bots, and the algorithms that fuel them as tools that can swim through large pools of data pools of data, text, photos, and even videos. We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. AI can do this faster than humans to identify patterns. and insights more quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

I was too nervous to take notes when Deborah Finn was talking because I came next, but my heart rate came down enough to take some notes on Brian's comments and a photo. Marnie Webb participated in the meeting via the IRC/SKYPE and took great notes. Here's Erica George's notes ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Here’s the basics if you are getting the C-Suite up to speed: Instagram is a free application for iPhone or Android that lets people take photos, apply filters to change the look of the photos and then share them. There are lots of photo editing apps that work with Instagram, management tools, and tools to measure Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Renee Blodgett took these awesome photos at blogher.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The photo from is my October visit with him, a few months before he died. A week or so before he died, he did a podcast with Chris Brogan discussing facing death. It is a must listen for everyone and anyone who is facing a terminal diagnosis or is caring for a loved one. Meico Marquette Whitlock and I took a long walk with him in Boston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

Use a creatively-staged photo. While showing the faces of the people served is very powerful, sharing a story with an imaginatively shot photo can also work well. Make sure you are transparent when doing so. Include a footnote saying that. some details have been changed to protect identities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. It includes photo editing apps, special filter apps, and photo sharing apps. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013. That’s why I’ve put together this curated list for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. Your photos should not only resonate with your audience, it should tell a story, not be copyrighted, and be a decent photo (not blurry or poorly composed). You can take your own photos or use stock photography. Don’t forget to add your URL or logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

I’ve also gotten similar questions, particularly about whether or not it is “safe&# for the organization (and the young people) to post photos on Facebook. As part of their policy, parents sign a release at the beginning of the year that gives her organization to share all photos. wearing a school t-shirt).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

From Flickr Stream - Grandfather and Grandson. The translation of the article is here and is about how grandparents help take care of their grandchildren and help their children save money on day care costs. This is to inform you that we have made an information of Consumer.es EROSKI , specially ??? El ahorro en guarder??as,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2012

As of March 30, your organization’s Facebook page will be transitioned to the new timeline format, featuring a engaging cover photo (if you do it right) like Surfrider Foundation (see above). The new Facebook template invites brands like yours to place a large “cover photo” at the top of the page, up to a size of 851 x 315 pixels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” I had not been in the room before, although I did see photos. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week. And, I only had 15 minutes to set it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Simply Measured offers a free report that lets see which of your photos/stories was most engaging. I ran an analysis on my Instagram experimenting and discovered that my most engaging photos included Monks , Clouds , and Cats ! Porter Mason from UnicefUSA also suggests this other measurement tool: Staigr.am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. ” 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

Another great video from Lee Lefever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. And, of course, tons of photos of kittens and cats. Photo Source: Rebecca Reppert-Klich. You could go on a new diet and consume news mindfully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Erin also shared that she tweeted the photo and comment because many staff members at RWJF are on twitter and they follow one another as part of their “learning the new,” especially when someone is attending a convening, conference, or workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I use photo documentation and social media. I also collect all the “evidence” of learning – any notes, sticky notes, drawings, or other items that students created as part of the workshop. Here’s an example from a recent workshop I did on Content Curation at Scoop.It. Group Photo. Documentation.

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