NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

flickr: Eva the Weaver. Here's a list of recently started & re-energized clubs: Boston : With their, "back from the dead" relaunch in May, our Boston organizers kicked things off with a successful happy hour. NTEN's local meet up groups have been popping up all across the US over the last few months.

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MARCH 4, 2008

Flickr Photo. So, just got a copy of her newly updated book Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better for the plane ride back tto Boston Last July, I took this photo of the three geek girls at BlogHer. She used the idea for this great photo !

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JUNE 3, 2007

Photo by Steve Garfield found in his flickr stream. That's a photo that Steve Garfield took this morning right before the Boston Media Makers meeting. Steve shared his live video broadcasting from the Mall in Cambridge. I thought it was pretty cool!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Bob Collins invited me to speak at the next Boston Social Media Breakfast on Wednesday, December 10th at 8:00 am in Cambridge, MA at the Ryles Jazz Club along with Gradon Tripp and Frank Days. Thanks to the generous sponsors FirstGiving and MarketWire , the event is free and it comes with a generous breakfast spread. Share ‘em.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2006

We took Mongkol , a Cambodian blogger, now studying in Boston. I met Mongkol via his flickr photos and then found his blog. And just for giggles, I made a flickr slide show out them here.). I recognize you from your flickr photos!" Mongkol discovered that one of them lives near him in Boston! That must be it!"

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

NetSquared’s global network of volunteers will be organizing more than 30 events this April in communities as diverse as Mukono, Uganda; Wellington, New Zealand; and Boston, USA. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr. That’s all for now. See you soon! Event NetSquared tsevent'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2006

I came across a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that argues for the essential role of play in the healthy mental, physical, and social/emotional development of a child referred to in a recent editorial in the Boston Globe titled "The Hidden Power of Play" and elsewhere. The above example came from Museumr.

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JANUARY 24, 2007

from my flickr photo stream Susan Tenby from TechSoup gave a presentation for a workshop called Virtual Games/Virtual Worlds during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice. Eugene Chan was also in the room and took photographs and sent them to flickr.

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APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2006

Mongkol , a Cambodian blogger, is here in Boston for two years, on Fulbright grant. Here's a complete set of flickr photos from and here's Mongkol's photos. Chhan Touch and Mongkol Our family with Mongkol. Well, this weekend we did! Mongkol was so happy with the food, particularly the sour soup, he photographed it!

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JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter Among the key note speakers were Linda Stone , Ken Thompson (who I also met at dinner) Jessica Lipnack , and John Seely Brown.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. If you have put on running shoes for the first time, do you think you can really expect to win the Boston Marathon? Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month. WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT. Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Information. More >> Year. More >> Tony started with a short list of nptech bloggers and a very beta design.

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OCTOBER 21, 2006

My Flickr photos here ) (He mentioned that he picked up the microphones in the CMU trash - boy I wish I could lurk in those trash cans!). Some additional resources: My various notes and resources : Steve Berlind from ZDnet at PodCamp talking about gear and uses my flickr photo in his column! There was incredible knowledge sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Scholars Accouterments from flickr user mharrsch. On a personal note, over the next three months I will be commuting from Boston to Palo Alto and at the end of June my family and I will relocate to the West Coast. That's an important distinction for me because it is the key to using social media successfully.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

My first job in the nonprofit field over 28 years ago was in development office at the New England Conservatory and later at the Boston Symphony. I've known of Darren Barefoot's work, but he really caught my attention in flickr with his " social media starfish." She also pointed to my facebook cause recruitment video.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Flickr Photo: amanky It makes me really happy when folks set up their own events inside the NTC. Boston Interactive will reveal ASPCA's new website. If you're planning anything for the NTC, let us know so we can highlight it here on the blog. Terpsys will roll out American Health Assistance Foundation's website.

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OCTOBER 17, 2005

Visual learners/thinks should take a look at these flickr photos ) And, speaking of explaining wikis, Marshall Kirkpatrick will be doing just that over at a TechSoup Online Event beginning next week, along with star studded cast of nonprofit Web 2.0ers. old style wiki Originally uploaded by teemow. Deborah Finn contributed to the effort. (I

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JULY 24, 2007

My Flickr Stream. I met Joe Casco at the Boston MediaMakers a few months back at Boston MediaMakers and he made a comment about how email is really outdated - it's over 25 years old and that we need to evolve. 3=Email is a chore, I prefer other ways to communicate with friends. 4=I hate email.

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DECEMBER 30, 2007

My Flickr Photo from a visit to Freegeek in Portland, Oregon. Within a few minutes, Jessica Burko , offered two Boston area solutions: the world computer exchange and list of local options where I can donate equipment. It got me thinking about the computer graveyard that is my home office. I put them in a corner. Ah, that felt great.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. The event includes a silent auction and company sponsorship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Take for example the upcoming podcamp in Boston that is using a wiki for registration, program planning, note taking, and virtually all the logistical details or any of the barcamp gatherings. You can get rich photo streams when participants a) have and use digital cameras b) understand and use tag based photosharing services like flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2006

We finally arrived after 8 hours on the road, documented with my treo cameraphone and emailed to flickr. He emailed me a few weeks ago after I pointed him to the Boston Globe article about the power of blogging that featured me and asked me what is a blog.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

When I arrived in Boston, I was waiting for my luggage. While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, but I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and So, what would any geek with a treo do?

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Note from Beth: I hope you are enjoying summer break as much as I am!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

" I found article via a post from Maura Welch who writes the business filter blog on the Boston Globe site. Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools. As one person the article was quoted as saying, "LinkedIn is about identifying a task or a business objective, and then finding someone who can help."

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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. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation?

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MAY 11, 2011

The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes. Check out my flickr photos of the event and my desktop That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. local time).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. The Boston Museum of Science could start their own YouTube channel and post videos about whatever they want. Let me give you an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. What worked? What didn't? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. Tags as a metric.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

The launch party was lots of fun - lots of Twitterville's most prominent residents were there as you can see from the #tbash stream and the photos in Flickr by Kenneth Yeung. Betsy Aoki purchased three copies. The 13 winners.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. It helped me write this post - " What Color is the Social Web? ".

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Exhibits that produce content that goes to social websites like YouTube or Flickr are automatically presented in relation to other visitors' productions. system, your image becomes part of a Flickr stream. I worked with the Boston Children's Museum on a project called Our Green Trail (check it out!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I was inspired to do a regular summary after Deborah Finn assembled a Boston TechnoBabe Meta Feed. Sarah Pullman writes about how flickr is taking over the world. This is a summary of what women bloggers have been talking about in the nonprofit technology space this past month or what I'm dubbing the nptechersphere.

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