Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Mean Lux wrote a blog post , but it is in Khmer can't translate fully.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. sponsors and donors. Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Conversations take place in both places separately and together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Family is Familia.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Flickr: vernhart Thanks to the amazing efforts of the NTEN community, it's been a great Member Appreciation Month! And a huge thank you to this week's sponsor, Beaconfire, for helping us celebrate our members! A huge #NTENThanks for all your support! We love our members and appreciate all you do--which is what MAM is all about!

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MARCH 31, 2009

Isn’t it sad that I only blog here to introduce March and then now, to close it out? We’re still getting pictures posted, but here’s a link to some of them from Flickr. What a month. Laini’s Bat Mitzvah is in a month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Try shifting the hero of your story to a volunteer, donor, sponsor – what’s their journey? So, take those little moments and let your team know when their contribution made all the difference in, for instance, an especially popular blog post. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by The Inadvertent Gardener. Holly Ross welcomed everyone and thanked the event sponsors who made it possible for 50 NTC Scholarships. Oakland’s Extra Action Marching Band lead the way into the ballroom with clinging, clanging, trumpets, drums, flag waving, and dancers who danced their hair off.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. You went to every corner of the earth to recruit donors, vendors, sponsors, volunteers, attendees, etc. Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. So, to avoid my own burnout, please enjoy this guest post by Julie Fanning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and as part of Civil Society 2.0. You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog. The team in Lebanon has also s hared success stories on its blog about the NGOs participating in its program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! So, if you want to follow me - best to click through the flickr stream. It was good to hear first hand stories of their challenges to maintaining a blog and their experiences training young people and others to blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The LAF goes beyond a mere presence on social networks, it has taken a maven approach, engaging deeply with supporters with a regularly updated blog , MySpace , Facebook , YouTube , and Twitter presences. Build partnerships with corporate sponsors Buca Di Beppo signed on to host LIVESTRONG Day events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  The Day of Service, sponsored by Tyson Foods , will be an opportunity for conference to give back to organizations in the host community. We have a team of social media volunteers who youtubing , blogging , flickring , and Twittering the work by these dedicated volunteers. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

So, I am blogging via flickr. After making the photos really small so they will upload quickly and disabled image load, I am blog reblog to typepad from my flickr account. The other highlight of my day was meeting Leng Sopharath, the college student our family sponsors through the Sharing Foundation's program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2006

Erica Sonnier with daughters and new puppy ( photo on flickr). Blog Administrator??? Blog Administrator??? s corporate blog, All The Rumpus , Everyone at our company feels that blogs are an excellent way to make our company???s I see myself as the point between our internal teams, and our external blog presence.

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

Flickr: cambodia4kidsorg (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Mission Research blog -- 3 things to remember about this group. co-sponsored by some NTEN-familiar folks ( Blackbaud , Event360 , and. Members are in bold. page to convert your fans to your email list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Blog: www.wildlifepromise.org. While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Book Tour Sponsors. Organization: National Wildlife Federation. Organization Size: 400 employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Blog : A resource which talks about publishing, reading, literacy, kidlit, learning, non-profits, events and more. Facebook : Updating information from the blog and infromation about the events we do and communicating with the community. See this blog post from Creative Commons ). Channels used: Twitter, Skype, Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last year, The March of Dimes ran a flickr photo contest to help draw attention to premature births. The trip has been chronicled on a blog and there is an interactive map that shows the locations of each story collected the whole route (Over 820 stories collected as of this writing). March of Dimes: PSA Video Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget. You can read see the other photos and read the letter in flickr here. Leng Sopharath, February, 2007. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

NTEN Members are our heroes (Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. The study and blog post also spurred some great discussion in the NTEN Disscus online group , which might be worth joining if you haven't already! Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

My family has sponsored her college costs for her freshman and sophomore years and last year I raised the money on my blog. All contributors will be graciously thanked on my blog and in flickr. Coming up with the $1,000 annual donation to the Sharing Foundation which manages the program is a stretch for me. Donate now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Flickr Photo from DenneyTerrio. Three weeks ago he asked me to sponsor him in " Mustaches for Kids -Houston." Ed Schipul is a colleague from the NetSquared Community that I have had the pleasure of knowing for two years now. I have the honor of joining his SWSX Panel in March about nonprofits, social media, and social good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now. Write to the Nigerian woman I sponsored through Women for Women International each month. I didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Flickr Photo by Nielio. As one of Minnesota’s eight volunteer centers, Community Thread connects people with volunteer opportunities, provides volunteer support to other nonprofits and sponsors large scale opportunities to volunteer. Note from Beth: Innovation was the buzzword at the Nonprofit Technology Conference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

More of my photos and videos on Flickr. In May, I had a chance to listen to a webinar by Randi sponsored by NTEN and shared some notes on tips and best practices for setting up a Facebook Fan Page. Recently, Frank Barry shared a guest post on this blog called " 4 Tips for Facebook Fan Pages." Have one?

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. There's still time to cast your votes for the 2009 Nonprofit Video Awards , co-sponsored by See3 Communications , DoGooder.TV, and Flip Video Spotlight (who will be giving the winners custom Flip video cameras as "trophies.")

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. Impact-driven fundraising gifts are an all-around win-win because it matches both the donor’s motivations to give and the tangible impact on the one who received it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. "Measuring ???engagement???

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Flickr Photo by Green Moon Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress. Penguin Day SF is organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet, CiviCRM, and Chicago Technology Cooperative, and generously sponsored by Google. Introduction to Linux. and Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

She is one of 18 students being sponsored for college through The Sharing Foundation's program. My family has been her sponsor for over a year. She spends meets with every student, takes their photos, and collects their sponsor letters to bring back to the donors. More background here ). So, here's what to do BEFORE Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0. I first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. explains the how and why.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Read my Flickr Story About Leng Sopharath, an orphan being sponsored for college by the Sharing Foundation I've been a board member of the Sharing Foundation for the last three years and volunteer several years before that. Read my flickr story 2. You can read about the others here. Read the proposal 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Thanks to the generous sponsors FirstGiving and MarketWire , the event is free and it comes with a generous breakfast spread. Whether you're del.icio.us'ing , twittering , posting or flickring just tag it GiveList and we'll find it and share your ideas about contributing with the world. Share ‘em.

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