Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. --Ivan Boothe, Organizing Rather Than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency Building I'm filling in for a panelist on Sunday at the Bioneers Conference for the session , Alternet Presents: Social Media Activism/Web 2.0 You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Welcoming new members, nudging conversations, highlighting activity and network weaving across the platform are all part of a Community Manager’s role. Posted engagement policies or intuitive design will do nothing for participation on a new platform without active members modeling the way the tools can be used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m In this post, I???m

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

4) Add a link to your Flickr account where journalists can download high resolution images related to the press release. Make it easy for them and compile a slideshow on Flickr in advance of the press release. If a print journalist wants to do a story on your nonprofit, they are going to need high resolution photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Here's an interview with Nature Conservancy staff members Evan Parker and Susan Citro about how the organization is using Flickr. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? We have had really great success on both fronts. Any gotchas?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Some nonprofits are just getting started and still perceive social media as cutting edge online communications and fundraising – while others have been using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr for years and increasingly verbalize that they are getting a little bored and waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. Another idea is to keep list of resilience activities or activities that can help you feel satisfied. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools. Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2011

That said, in my upcoming webinar on YouTube and Flickr , I’ll be doing an in-depth click-by-click demonstration of Cosmic Panda, but in the meantime here are five, somewhat random things your nonprofit needs to know about YouTube’s Comic Panda: 1) You can try it out ( here ) and go back to your old design if you’d like.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Creative Commons on Flickr : A great source for images for your organization’s website, blog, e-newsletter, social networking profiles, etc. My career in Internet activism goes to back to 2000 when I launched eActivist.org ( View 2002 cached version ). oneforty : A gallery of over 2,500 (and counting) Twitter Apps.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

If you have a link to your Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Flickr, and YouTube, but not your email signup, your visitors may assume you don’t have a list to join. Enable RSS so visitors can keep up with your blog activity with Google Reader (my preference). Include Links to Your Social Media Accounts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. Unfortunately, I can’t find a nonprofit on DailyBooth, but Mashable is active there: Mashable on DailyBooth :: dailybooth.com/mashable. Finally, Instagram also deserves a mention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: Allison Fine and I have been actively researching, writing, and presenting about AI for Social Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. That said, QR Codes that prompt scanners to call phone numbers could be put to very interesting use at political events protests ushering in a new wave of QR Code activism.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 2, 2009

As part of the LIVESTRONG Action campaign the LIVE STRONG day is focused on unifying people from all around the world through local events and activities that celebrate cancer survivorship. Friday, October 2, 2009, is LIVE STRONG Day. It’s also designed to generate awareness and foster support so the world can be freed from cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Fires are urgent but unimportant activities that are not a part of your organization’s plan, but require a resource investment. When a fire pops up, the reaction is a flurry of unplanned activity that usurps everyone’s attention and time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006. s a changemaker.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Multi-channel conversations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Last year, over 100 organizations participated, with top submissions earning prizes from Flip Video, Adobe, Flickr, and GoldMail. Tags: Event Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet. said Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared, a program of TechSoup.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Do you put on local activities? Make sure you’re actively looking for ways to incorporate social media into your online strategy. If you’re using Facebook pull in your Blog, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts so that you page fans can see where else you participate. So what do you want to be known for on the web?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

If parts of that infrastructure could be consolidated, could they streamline their efficiency and shore up infrastructure while freeing up resources for mission-related activities and staff? Flickr photo: torkildr. We talked to a few organizations doing just that to see just what functions they’re sharing, and how it works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location. Dipity :: dipity.com. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. 2. What worked about the audience interaction activities face-to-face? I had organized parallel online activities that mirror what we were doing the room. Our session is here. Also humor, especially with props, works.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. Organizing activities, such as Hayes Valley Farm has done by inviting their online followers to volunteer on the farm, gives community members a chance to connect in person.

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2011

According to a study by Blackbaud , NTEN and Common Knowledge, over 92% of nonprofit organizations have a presence on at least one social networking site, but most raise very little money through their social activity. In fact, 87% have raised under $1000 on Facebook since they began using the platform. Social media adoption by budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, the roles of email and e-newsletters are constantly evolving and even though the number one activity on mobile phones is email, that could change in the future. Flickr Sets can be customized using HTML to add “Subscribe!&# Group text messaging could become the new email of the Mobile Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

Sara's school does not have an Internet-connected computer, so the activities were focused on movement, reading a book about it, circle time, doing related crafts, and singing a song. I told them Nick could answer the questions they had about the flickr photo set he put together. What is the food in the first flickr photo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. When I asked several well-respected educators about this, some mentioned that simply listening actively is even better, although that probably isn’t practical in the workplace. It forces us to do better active listening. How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We’ve given out prizes to members who have been particularly active and engaged, as well as to members randomly selected from our database, and announced their big wins via social media. Flickr photo credit: woodleywonderworks. One of the most fun aspects of Member Appreciation Month has been the daily prize giveaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly useful if you want to easily get a list of your active fans and follow up. My LinkedIn Network Map – a set on Flickr. It compliments the data that you get from Insights – it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. Here’s the top posts for February.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. But, maybe you’ve done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media activities in 2011 and have gleaned some insights. Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers, share best practices at no charge , and deepened our learning based on a monthly theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Flickr Photo from Ross Mayfield Still reflecting on the question " Are Fundraising Groundwells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?" Found this oldish post in my bookmark collection called Power Law of Participation for social software by Ross Mayfield.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

Camfed has over 13,000 images on Flickr. we hoped to see at least some activity – and we did. But the activity was primarily from people following and sharing our eCards, proving that the platform, at least at this stage, is a better tool for raising awareness than funds.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2010

The annual event tackles the broader scope of how technology is changing politics and the political process, which many nonprofits work toward through activism, advocacy, and educational campaigns. Tags: Digital Divide Event Online Activism Online Fundraising Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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