Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

We wanted to be creative and capitalize on the media attention to bring dogfighting into the spotlight. Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? Also helps for communicating with UGC contestants and winners. trackable Raise awareness ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. Okay, maybe I've been really busy and wasn't paying attention to the media, but I didn't recall reading about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? . “We don’t think that’s good for the environment.&# Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. and volcom sector adoption. is right for you and your org? Here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. Too other must-read blogs are Getting Attention by Nancy Schwartz and Spare Change by Nedra Weinrich.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! You want a pitch that is remarkable—meaning interesting enough for people to remark on it to you and (pay attention because this next part is very important in terms of word-of-mouth marketing) to others. ABOUT THE #FIXMYPITCH CONTEST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. But they must write the tweet in their own words in a way they think will get attention from their network. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

With so many things competing for people''s attention today, images and photos are a more important aspect of your communications toolbox than ever before. Audiences are so accustomed to viewing images networks like Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, and Pinterest that it can be difficult to get people to pay attention without visuals.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads. But this is often obscured by design that focuses attention on the top viewed-content.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

So the 65,000 new eyeballs and ears are great, but they are paying close attention to how to convert those people to activists. Which is to say, paying attention to what the symbols in the culture are that are resonating and how you can insert yourself into the story and point those symbols in new a direction and with new meaning.

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MAY 25, 2007

Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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APRIL 16, 2008

Attitudes of executive directors towards the Internet – ED’s have gone from “why should I pay attention to the web” to spending a significant amount of time worrying if their web site is interactive, if they are doing all they can to effectively engage donors, and how they can raise more dollars online.

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MARCH 4, 2008

Attitudes of executive directors towards the Internet – ED’s have gone from “why should I pay attention to the web” to spending a significant amount of time worrying if their web site is interactive, if they are doing all they can to effectively engage donors, and how they can raise more dollars online.

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