Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

What content is producing the desired action of registering, donating or taking action? Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

This might work best for a group where some post-event action on the ideas captured during the event might be anticipated. Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. : Blog (i.e. WordPress , Blogger ) Podcast (i.e. Libsyn , Hipcast ) Video sharing (i.e. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. Below is a sampler of ways you could measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. 1. Best of Social Media, Nonprofits, and Social Actions for 2008: You'll find a couple of " best of social media 2008 " lists around from social media gurus. In the nonprofit space, Joe Solomon ( @engagejoe ) has written about ten best social action platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). I might spend a few minutes brainstorming on flickr by typing in combinations of keywords related to ideas to come up with a metaphor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Putting a resolution into action with baby steps is the best way to succeed. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field. you work in. Tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. mission. (and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference. How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Better yet, some of that sniffing can be appended by friendly actions that require little more than a keyboard and an interest in talking with others about your museum. Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. ventures?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

During the 2000s, with the rise of broadband, came an onslaught of highly designed websites with Flash and JavaScript, pop-down navigation, and pop-up windows for slide shows, videos, and calls to action. So, make sure you feature your fresh content first (your blog feed) and calls to action after that. content on a mobile website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

The advantage of having actionable guidelines is that they reduce time spent on unnecessary data updates and reduce the potential follow up tasks of contacting your visitors to confirm information. My favorite tools are setting up the log in page as either a favorite/bookmark or even the home page. photo courtesy of Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. This tool is a simple way to create graphics of inspirational quotes or powerful stats that can then also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Google+. PicMarked photos would make a good Flickr slideshow as well. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Thing is, once you have paid the admin, the cash value of the flickr ‘donation’ barely makes it worthwhile – even for the 5 account max per charity. Been reading lots of positives today on Blog Action Day, and also heard of wonderful action taking place this evening too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

What action do you want it to drive them to? You can search for them on Flickr , or just Google “creative commons”, “cartoon” and various keywords. Or you can start bookmarking cartoonists you come across who post under an open license. What’s the emotional reaction you want your audience to have?

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