Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. Instagram has become a popular way to share photos, along with Flickr , where we catalog all our images from events and exhibitions.

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MAY 21, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.&# Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. If you want learn the fine art of having a conversation on Twitter, follow and observe the masters. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). I might spend a few minutes brainstorming on flickr by typing in combinations of keywords related to ideas to come up with a metaphor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

We've organized the tools into different categories that are loosely based on the Conversation Prism from Brian Solis. Social Bookmarking. Participate: Joining the conversation with your audience. And, we'll be awarding special prizes for participation. Want your WeAreMedia T-Shirt? Help us build the toolbox! you work in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

I did a post about the Steve Cliff and the Voterss Project and it reminded be that for over a year I've been attempting to do multimedia conversation and I have only been able to talk to myself! re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. Connect with natural behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. Listening is an important piece of the strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.” ” Think about it. When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation. What is your blog conversation strategy? How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr. Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Social bookmarking in plain English! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk. The Socialmarkets Manifesto is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

So did blogging a few years ago, but now corporate types get tattooed in business school with the phrase "markets are conversations." Should all nonprofits be doing all of these things, plus blogging, social bookmarking, IM, screencasting, user-generated content, etc. Today, it smacks of faddishness. tool after Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Robin Good recently interviewed Marshall Kirkpatrick about Mash-ups and he asked Marshall to define widgets in the context of the conversation. I'm so excited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? s engaged enough to write a sentence or two or to participate in a conversation or to upload a photo with a caption is a person who???s Our Flickr photo contest. but now that we???ve

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Thing is, once you have paid the admin, the cash value of the flickr ‘donation’ barely makes it worthwhile – even for the 5 account max per charity. Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

You can search for them on Flickr , or just Google “creative commons”, “cartoon” and various keywords. Or you can start bookmarking cartoonists you come across who post under an open license. I know of a rather good book on measuring things.) Modesty forbids suggesting a starting point.)

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