Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Black-Crowned Night Heron. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

It may be no surprised that he is an excellent photography and each shot is carefully crafted and described. This is a hilarious Instagram spoof account satirizing the great millennial adventurer trend in photography. Showing a value of integrity, he said he wished he could share the indoor shot, but promised not to reveal it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

The photos, particularly since TNC’s audience are photography enthusiastic, can become a richer source for compelling photos than stock photos. This means the organization can be more efficient because it has opened up and allowed its network to create content about what they love: nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I checked out Rob Cottingham and Alex Samuels geek anniversary gift list and it looks like photography equipment is how you’re supposed to mark a quarter century of marriage – probably in focal lengths of 25 mm? Instead, decided to make a donation to charity:water during their September Birthday campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

A few days ago TechSoup and Flickr sponsored an online event discussion about the use of Flickr and photography in non profit organizations. Michaela Hackner participated and had some great insights. She blogged her reflections into one excellent post! More from the TechSoup blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

We have long known that our members were passionate about photography, and one of their strongest ties to the organization was through the photography that we use on our web site and in our publications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Jeff is in charge of video production, photography, graphic design, communication efforts and social media strategy for GiveMN, including the GiveMN blog, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Special thanks also to you Beth for your consultation, advice and cheerleading! Jeff Achen is the interactive media strategist for GiveMN. Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

He shared an amazing story of how his institution has adapted to online networks and digital photography, but the even more inspiring were the many photos and the stories of social change behind those photos. The first speaker was Keith Jenkins who is the digital manager for National Geographic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

”) combined with expert knowledge made this a fantastic experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Providing super transparency into action on the ground through viscerally engaging media (email/video/photography) while providing opportunities for me to act and also socialize with other like-minded folks, are the attraction and loyalty factors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. Here are three ways to get a clearer sense of your audience. Imagining Supporters with User Stories. Write a short profile of a few of your target audience members. How old are they? Where do they work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

One of the things they did early was to take an inventory of their team members’ skills to discover who was good at the various required skills writing, photography, and video as well as social media savvy. he went on to talk about their successes, but did point out that it required work and a good consultant ( JD Lasica ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2006

And, while I was listening to folks wax rhapsodic, I took photos and practiced some of the points that Heather Champ mentioned during her digital photography workshop yesterday. But I can't find her card and I can't find the photo. Can anyone help? I'd love to see the photos that others took? Where are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Jeff is in charge of video production, photography, graphic design, communication efforts and social media strategy for GiveMN, including the GiveMN blog , Twitter , Facebook and YouTube. Our volunteers provided critical technical and moral support to hundreds of nonprofit representatives during October and November.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Jeff is in charge of video production, photography, graphic design, communication efforts and social media strategy for GiveMN, including the GiveMN blog , Twitter , Facebook and YouTube. And, nonprofits that get the most people to donate during this event will receive prize grants worth $15,000, $10,000, $7,500 or $5,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2008

He gave me a photography tips. Here's the blog post I wrote about Harry meeting Dith Pran and the Year of the Snake Cambodian New Year's Celebration. I remember showing Dith Pran my digital camera and he showed him nikon digital camera. I sent him the photo above that I snapped him holding Harry. Harry did not cooperate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Yesterday, I couldn't resist doing some macro photography of the cling peaches at the Mountain View Farmer's market. I am enjoying the weekly Farmer's Markets in California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Instagram and Device Photography 101. How to Build Your Personal Brand. How to Build Your Network. How to Practice Good Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share. The basics of LinkedIn,Twitter, Facebook. Beyond the Basics – Listening, Power User Tips, Video Streaming Apps. Social Fundraising Basics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2008

Using Social Media for Social Good by Andru Edwards Live Blog post by Bill's Blog An Uncomplicated Kindness at Gnomedex by Lipsticks and Laptops Gnomedex Goes Bollywood by Dave Delaney Gnomedex Day 1 by Dave Brezeal It Takes 90 Minutes to Change a Life by Nick/Podnosh Gnomedex by Jay Cross Photography and Social Good Are Themes At Gnomedex by Jason (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

I learned one of the secrets of David Tames excellent photography - raw talent! In the conversation around whether or not to use something like Ning or build your own platform - one of the drawbacks is that you don't get to keep your google ad revenue. Well, there is one other thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I know for myself that a return to keeping visual journals on paper and drawing with magic markers has been incredibly useful in this area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I had planned for that edition to be a longer article on using photography, but I cut that back and led with Komen. I usually publish my weekly e-newsletter on Tuesday or Wednesday and hadn’t gotten to it Tuesday, so it only made sense to include the Komen story in the e-newsletter too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To hone my video and photography skills in the creation, shooting, and editing. I'm going to continue to play and reflect and learn about technology tools and how they can be used to support nonprofits and to create instructional material. I'm disciplining myself not to think of play as wasted time, it's important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Presentations: An executive director wanted to use photos to make her points during a presentation, but disliked clip art and lacked the budget for stock photography. Flickr provided a way for the collaborators to easily upload and share photos publicly and privately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

In photography, as elsewhere, appearances count. She also suggests: Whenever you use a CC-licensed photo that you find on Flickr or elsewhere, it's a good idea to leave a comment. or send a note to the photographer thanking them and giving the link to where you ran it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

We have a concept for a national photography competition in conjunction with the Congress ??? ???if National Congress coming up in Oct 2009 will focus attention on the current position of worldwide research. We have recently set up a website www.retinaqld.org.au. We have a skilled IT person to maintain and update the website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Jeff is in charge of video production, photography, graphic design, communication efforts and social media strategy for GiveMN, including the GiveMN blog , Twitter , Facebook and YouTube. Their generosity on November 15 is helping thousands of nonprofits and schools for months and years to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Give a copy of Love Letters from the South , a beautiful photography book that pays tribute to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Your donation will help the organization reach more children in poor, rural communities in the United States through early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

the powerful photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the U.S. Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Only a court of law can determine whether the purpose of the photography was fair use or not. And it could be argued that a curator's repsonsibility is to keep his or her museum away from courts of law.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

So, you can imagine my delight in discovering this fabulous photography site called Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change. A recent series of studies by psychologists provides the research that proves it -- they have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

I didn't have a signal, so I fulfilled my one Hawaii experience goal - do macro photography of exotic flowers and birds. Next we headed up to Waimea Valley where there was a beautiful botanical garden and waterfall. Harry and Sara got to frolick in the falls. Qiking the Hawaiian Sunset at Sunset Beach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A couple of personal highlights of the sessions: Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an awesome photographer who gave us great tips on improving our photos. Also, having super fantastic geek ways of running a conference was inspiring - I especially like the twitter speaker feedback channel. got a 5 point rating ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

A university-aged Khmer assistant with an interest in photography will also be recruited. If the family cannot afford the fee, the child goes home. The project will begin with 5 students, and expand up to ten as the project grows. Elizabeth is seeking donations of cameras and photo books before she departs for Cambodia in mid-June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. We will also design a "Flickr Walk" to take place sometime during the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

posed stock photography ever could. even though they exist to say educate the public about an issue. Anyone wrangled with these types of definitions before? I think natural. photos of real people often speak to the issues and engage people far more than. And most groups don???t t have professional. wonderful solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

The board topics with the most followers from this sample of seven early adopters include: Photography. The most popular board in the group is UNICEF’s Photography board – which includes over 100 compelling photos of their work and they have been consistently adding content, including a “Photo of the Week” feature.

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