Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

One popular method of getting people to turn in their old phones has been to recycle them for charity. As James Mosieur notes, awareness is a barrier to increased collection. As he says: "Consumers may have some awareness that they can donate or recycle or sell their old devices but often they become aware at an inopportune time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. How to distribute your stories via YouTube, Flickr, Utterz, and other ways. What are some methods or processes for setting up small, low-risk experiments and learning from them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. Especially in this economy. But don't ignore the other two areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. I hadn't realized they were still using non-digital methods to transfer information in that world! Mixed Reality Event ???

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

In Chapter 3, McCloud identifies six different methods by which comic artists transition from one panel to another (for example, scene-to-scene or action-to-action). Flickr is similar to Wikipedia in that the focus is content, but there’s a lot more emphasis on networks (groups, establishing a personal profile with your pics).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

In this way, like on YouTube, my actions as a viewer still affect the creator community, because creators are aware of the number of views on their projects. But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics. ScratchR is really well-designed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

They're the easy step we can do right now; but once we have systematic and web-enabled ways of calculating your ecological footprint, we can offer that to people that are in the spaces, other companies, and I'm really looking forward to seeing more of those methods being available. We had a very small mailing group to get things started off.

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