Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn’t fit!). After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. We’ve endorsed the real-life charm of Awkward Family Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

To draw attention to the issue , the March of Dimes has just announced a Flickr Photo Contest : Be a Coin Star for Babies! To participate, you join the Flickr Group , take a photo of where you keep your change, and forward it to the group. November is premmie awareness month. Instructions are available here ).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The updates and first-hand accounts bring attention to a movement and generate more participation. OWS has made the economy and political process a personal issue, inviting people around the US and the world to put their story on paper and share a photo of themselves with the story online. Personalize It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Beth Kanter. This week, the post that got the most conversation was a playful and visual one. Using the photo above, I asked people to share their best social media advice as a fortune in a fortune cookie. “Appreciate your fans and they will appreciate you.” Sally Reed. Rebecca Krause-Hardie. Wendy Harman.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by lyzadanger. Rubel talks about the issue of &# content decay&# or the amount time content has to get attention from our networks. How are you ensuring that your content for social channels is not only capturing attention, but also has a longer shelf-life than it took to create it? hours on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. Flickr Pro account. " First Place Photo. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set. Flickr Pro. Flickr Pro. Charity Express will receive: Connect2give suite annual plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

You may not have someone with you on every funder pitch, but it’s not hard to arrange at least some of those conversations with a colleague who won’t do too much talking during the meeting, so someone else can pay more attention to how well you do. Photo credit: Flickr rburtzel).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2012

When it happens to me, it usually means that I need to pay attention, and tell your guys about it. Most people post a photo of what they made on their blog, or Flickr. If you share your posts, or photos on Instagram, or Twitter, use the hashtag #aedm2012. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). So maybe this isn't "LOC Rocks Flickr."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. It grabs attention and says a lot in a few words. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. Here’s one for Twitter. A great place to start your elevator speech is to adapt your marketing boilerplate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Mushon. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? " Got some great tips from Eduardo Jezierski , Watford Gap , Csuspect , Peter Campbell , EricaG , davidLeeking , Seth Schneider , Ericskiff , Kalabird , bethdunn , and Greg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Find a creative way to catch attention, relay the topic of your session and keep people reading about your session. Pay attention to instructions or tips on different segments of the proposal form. You just lump a bunch of speakers together and hobble together some content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. For nonprofit leaders who are paying attention, the crowdfunding trend is hard to miss. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant! at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Flickr Photo by Salendron. If that headline caught your attention, thank Robin Good , a virtuoso content curator, who will join me remotely from Italy when I do a talk on content curation at the next Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in January. Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Most attention to scaling social impact has tended to focus on replicating programs to extend service delivery. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's Global Content and Community Coordinator and resident digital storytelling expert Ale Bezdikian says: If you're just embarking on your journey into social media visual storytelling using photos and videos, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the depth of information out there. Where do you start? That's how it works!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Photo by Feast of Fools. National Congress coming up in Oct 2009 will focus attention on the current position of worldwide research. She asked for a starting point, one or two things that she could start on to begin to bring their cause to the attention of more people. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. This is what builds thought leadership and attention. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for “ spotting the awesome ” like Upwell (see below) or is it more of ”we know it when we see it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2012

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. ” It is done by creating original content that takes advantage of timely events that are getting mainstream media attention and providing your organization’s view or take on the topic and sharing it with your audience, including journalists.

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2010

Flickr Photo: Luc Legay Fabulous NTEN board member Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention released some very interesting research today. Tags: CRM Data E-mail Getting Attention nancy schwartz NPTech NTEN research Social Media Web Sites Communications. Apparently, 8 of 10 nonprofits think their messaging fails to hit home.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

Include a photo in the post if at all possible. This system feeds back in on itself -- people who see praise become repeat supporters because they've been thanked publicly and been given attention they didn't expect. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! It's about our supporters. Pictures have tenfold the value of words.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. The geek in me feels what has not gotten sufficient attention in these stories is the underlying technical architecture – some built, some being upgraded – that enables stories and information to circumnavigate the world. The Internet is getting physical and charitable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Courtesy of Nancy Schwartz, publisher of Getting Attention. Ensure your Web site and e-news (and despite the challenges of getting attention via email, you gotta have one) are tight, focused, timely and working for your organization.before you even stick a toe into social media waters. We joined for the first time this year.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tracy O Every September, our e-Newsletter focuses on fundraising. If we run your contribution in the newsletter, we'll give you a free pass to one of our fabulous webinars (not to mention the attention of thousands of nptechies). (A Doing anything cool and innovative? Sticking to the tried and true?

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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. Our story challenges get lots of attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. The bottom line is that you want to scale happy, healthy, pay attention organizational culture. I’ve been working on my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , with Aliza Sherman. Or there might risks, or to paraphrase Drucker, your organization culture will eat french fries for breakfast.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Tip #2: Pay attention. Listening and paying attention will help you adjust quickly – whether it’s adding more information on the FAQ page, understanding difficult aspects of participation and finding ways to improve them, or simply understanding what those outside your organization think of your efforts.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2010

Flickr Photo: Paraflyer. Tags: Getting Attention nancy schwartz NPTech NTEN tagline Communications. I was in DC last week with the famous Anna Richter getting our 11NTC ducks in a row. Our conference hotel, the Washington Hilton was just up the hill from the metro station, so I kept walking down Connecticut to get there. (Or

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. This type of meeting participation is called mindful listening and has four elements: paying attention, having patience, being nonjudgmental, and choosing to listen for something in particular. The quality of listening and attention in the room shapes the quality of the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. So, I thought this matrix was highly useful to help sort out when to pay attention to feedback based on who the people who are offering it. And, in this day of social networks — feedback can come from a variety of sources and unsolicited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Boy, the attention was sure focused after people had spent an hour discussion how they might apply the tools. So, while the groups were in discussion, I uploaded some photographs into flickr and put in several tweets. And wanted to show them that photosharing was about having a conversation around photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person. 9: Give regular verbal or non-verbal cues that you are paying attention. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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