Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

These social media tools - like blogs, photo and video sharing, Twitter, and of course, social networking sites like Facebook - have made it easier for people share photos of their cute cats because of two twin revolutions going on - the ease of creating content and the ease of sharing it with local and global audiences.

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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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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

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. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr) I love "reading" my feed of stories told through images each day The Instagram community has grown quickly. How many of you played with Instagram over the holiday break?

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. 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. A five-picture Flickr slideshow. Their newest video is called Youth Voices.

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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 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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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. adoption for nonprofits). When I got to showing Twitter, I was met with the usual skepticism.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it. 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.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. Get creative in integrating your text-to-subscribe keyword and short code pitch into photos, slide shows, or even your YouTube Channel banner.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. So what makes Flickr so useful? It has the most photos from the most people and places. Okay, pop quiz.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

The Highest Paid Person in the Organization needs to buy into data driven decisions otherwise adoption for a NPO is nearly impossible ( Avinash Kaushik ). For example, there is a simple way to use Flickr and a custom email address to aggregate photos from your constituents to then create a photo of the day similar to @CharityWater.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. Create opportunities for the community to create social content for your web site We asked our supporters to upload photos from their events to Flickr and videos to Youtube.

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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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Did your organization do some sort of gift, food drive or animal adoption this holiday? Do you have photos? Hint: If your event has yet to happen, remember to take photos or appoint a volunteer with the job!) How about posting an album on Flickr, or even turning your still photos into a video slideshow.

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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. Case study is here ).

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Flickr Photo by Liz Jones. Flickr Photo by JDB99. But for those who have begin to adopt it or thinking about it, the next step is a style of use or (darn I say) how to integrate into your work flow. I realize that many people in nonprofits may answer that question with "I don't use Twitter."

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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

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Object Based Social Sharing VS Social Graph Sharing : Objects are things like photos, bookmarks, slide decks, or in the case of Quora, questions. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post. Thanks Geoff! ). So, how might Quora be useful to nonprofit professionals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. Everything from hastily assembled friends list to twitter followers to groups, apps, and widgets that we "impulse adopted" yet rarely revisited. We'll adopt a less is more approach with our information coping skills. It's that time of year again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo by Stitch. For this post, I wanted to focus on the first issue - the mismatch between organizational culture and social media adoption. Photo by SamDiablo The Tire: Social media forms at the edges of the company. Flickr Photo by MR+G. Flickr Photo by Colmmacc. How can I make my campaigns work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. The reports gives us a demographic snap shot of who is tagging now ("Classic early adopters, people under 40" - guess I'm not a classic early adopter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Glazer talked about the "computing cloud" - which is happens when a technology is no longer new, when there is a critical mass of adopters. A cool app created with the Flickr API that is twitter on flickr. Let's you see in real time photos tagged with the same tag. He asks where it is helpful to be social?

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JUNE 11, 2009

Flickr Photo: david reece In the nonprofit sector, we've been maligned as slow tech adopters for a long time. Having worked in this sector for a decade now, I suspect this used to be one strereotype based on some truth. But I don't think it's the case anymore.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2012

Also, don't forget that most people don't like to sign a blank sheet, so make sure to have an early adopter sign up first. Celebrate – Last week, we had empanadas and slide show of photos from last year’s efforts to help motivate people to sign up. We were able to fill 16 shifts with the kick off party.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic. Photo of Dora the Cat by Me. Women for Women International blog What are 13 causes you'd give to if you won the lottery?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. Bernadette Feeney, an adoptive parent, started her blog just to help with the campaign! Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. Flickr Supporters. I want to mention a few recent posts.

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