Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the adoption challenges faced by nonprofits in embracing these new tools. However, based on observing nonprofits that have been effective - there are definitely some patterns of success for social media adoption. They are learning what works and what doesn't for nonprofit organizations here in the US.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. How about your nonprofit?

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. There are never enough photos to satisfy the social media monsters either which all rely on compelling images. Build a Photo Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Corporate types resist the adoption of these technologies, and then, subsequently embrace them. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2008

The biggest takeaway I got from her talk, and a recurring theme to my conversations with organizations at the conference who are successfully adopting social web tools, is experimentation. This post was originally written for the NetSquared Blog Flickr photo credit: Test Tube Flowers by Casey Yancey.

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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. The early adopters in the nonprofit sector are a creative bunch. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In the innovation marketplace, adoption is the only currency that matters. Ultimately, it’s the adoption by the community that matters in the long-run, and now can be proven even in the short-term. Image credit: Flickr opensourceway. Lessons and Opportunities for Supporting Technology Innovation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Not applying for YouTube’s Nonprofit Program. YouTube.com/nonprofits. Enough said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. I have always been an advocate of following, liking, and subscribing to the large organizations who are known for being early adopters. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. Here are 10 nonprofits currently using text alerts with links to their subscription pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Find your competitors the Web. with a note that you fear your nonprofit is falling behind.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who&# thought it up or campaigned for it.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Facebook has adopted the support of hashtags, too. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Let’s take a closer look … Social media adoption by platform. The industry giant, with 89% adoption among nonprofits is Facebook. Twitter is the second most popular, used by 57% of organizations, with YouTube, LinkedIn and Flickr rounding out the top five. Social media adoption by budget. 2) Lack of staffing.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. “Storytelling is critical to the work of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. A five-picture Flickr slideshow. Their newest video is called Youth Voices.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. Pin pictures of families who adopt animals from your shelter. Create a shared Board for families who adopt animals to share updates with pics showing how their happy pet is doing. Credit to Flickr user: Tropic~7 29.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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. Based in the U.K., 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

With campaigning tools readily available, and the economy of the web centered on content and adoption, if passionate individuals work together to create compelling content, achievable and measurable goals, and clear calls to action, they can make an impact – from fundraising to policy change – without an organization being involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

As an early adopter at this point, you need to look beyond the bugs that inevitably pop up in beta and buy in to the vision. Already within the community of Zeega early adopters, you can see a radical shift in the way information is presented and consumed. From Alpha to Zeega. There's something special about Zeega. I can feel it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

But we think there are a few things getting in the way of adoption and engagement: - with a name like that! Photo credit: Flickr: ToastyKen ). And we still see that need, and still think we can help. where do I fit? Bonnie’s reflections are up on her blog, too. What gets you thinking?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. Open standards are now becoming de-riguer for application developers, and even proprietary vendors are adopting longstanding ideas and methods from free and open source software. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. So what makes Flickr so useful? Now I always use Flickr. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Then again, I did find 42,822 photos matching "I love flickr." Okay, pop quiz.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

Twitter, Facebook, Flickr) I love "reading" my feed of stories told through images each day The Instagram community has grown quickly. I did and I *love* it. I love how simple it is to use I love how good it makes my photos look I love how easy it is to share images across networks (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. link] (mgmt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Beth. Here's the scoop: First celebrated in 1999, Take Your Dog To Work Day was created to celebrate the great companions dogs make and to encourage their adoption from humane societies, animal shelters and breed rescue clubs. You all know that I'm a dog lover , right? She has her own dogbook profile on Facebook!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. —– UPDATE.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. Tablet adoption is very brisk. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

For most organizations, resources are limited – anything that requires too much bandwidth to be successful initially or too much – won’t be successful. As a nonprofit technology trainer for the past 15 years, baby steps is extremely important for adoption. Flickr Photo by Kai Hendry. Click to see larger image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2008

Photo Source: Obama Family Dog Campaign All the dogs in my life have been adopted from animal shelters or dog rescue organizations. Choosing to adopt a puppy or dog from a rescue group or shelter, you're not only saving a life, you're decreasing the demand for puppies from factory-farm like puppy mills. Mutts are one-of a kind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). The title of the presentation was inspired by the title of a 1995 Harvard Business School Journal piece called "Catching the Wave" by Clay Christensen who coined the term "disruptive technologies."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

If we can't do this as a network, we'll NEVER get past early adopters, IMHO. I recently set up an affinity group over at NTEN called Nonprofits and Flickr as an experiment to see if there was an opportunity to set up a peer group not only share knowledge but the experimentation.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. Windows 8 adopters can also try out the Viewer for Khan Academy desktop app, which lets you watch Khan Academy videos on your desktop. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Flickr Photo by Minarae Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Source: Flickr. adoption strategies and often use this slide and talk abut low-risk experimentation. What experiments would you do to inform adoption or make improvements? In my workshop, I cover Web2.0 But, what the heck does that mean? Claim your Blog??? in Technorati.

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