Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. Photo by Steve Garfield. When I heard about this story, I was curious about Drew's tatoos. Thank you Steve!

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Flickr photo by zen??? program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. It's interesting that they are targeting bloggers as part of their publicity strategy. But soon realized it was from Hamburger Helper???s My Hometown Helper???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did !

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Flickr makes it easy to get started! Balderdash! Or the Women's Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

She a prolific blogger, a nonprofit techie, and has worked in the nonprofit sector for twenty years. If you are a visual/spatial type, check out their route on a Wayfaring map and their flickr stream. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th! Check out the flickr stream here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson (well known video bloggers and authors of books on the topic) have will be leading the session, along with Andy Carvin and Jonny Goldstein , also accomplished video bloggers. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. Mental note to self: I've never actually organized a flickr walk - has anyone?

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MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. Flickr Photo: cambodia4kids The Lifetime Acheivement Award is given each year to a person who has pushed the nptech community forward. Past winners include Beth Kanter and Marnie Webb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. That photo is one of my most viewed flickr photos and resulted in a number of inquiries for work. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Engagement Strategie s. See below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger.

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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. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools. members ten at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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See3

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. Well, less than 24 hours after the camera of was in the hands of the activists from Common Knowledge, I received this comment on the Flickr photo of my camera from Karen Apricot. " Why?

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