Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. Let them be activists for your organization and your cause. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.” 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. Give them retweetable content !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Flickr , Robert F. Whitlock This post originally ran on Mashable , and is co-authored by Qui Diaz , Beth Kanter and Geoff Livingston Do you believe in social causes? to provide nonprofits the information they need to best serve donors and advocates with meaningful conversations and dialogue about their causes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Facebook: facebook.com/thenatureconservancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

My big birthday is coming up this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Remix Contest. flickr group (you'll have to join first) with the following information in the description: -A birthday greeting. flickr group (you'll have to join first) with the following information in the description: -A birthday greeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. After donating $26 to FreeGeek to honor Amy's 26th birthday, I went poking around Causes to see if I could install the application. The folks at Causes are controlling the installation. And, yes they did !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

In actuality, Pinterest is a fast-growing discovery platform that can amplify your nonprofit message and get more visibility for your cause and for your work. . Tip: Share stories about your impact and the different ways to get involved with your cause. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Alan Levine, AKA cogdog blog, is running a marathon to help support a cause he cares about - juvenile diabetes. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest and I donated 50 bucks to his cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest (details to be announced in early 2008), I caught this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause or charity. Create a birthday card by remixing a photo of Beth or remix one of your own or anyone else's photo of me in flickr and send it into the Beth5.0 Need some inspiration?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. There’s no shortage of niche networks out there to experiment with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

So, while I'm waiting for my 2800 plus email messages to download and organizing almost as many flickr photos, I discovered a wonderful new FREE mapping program called Wayfaring. So, I plotted our vacation where we logged almost as many miles as I have email messages and linked to flickr photo sets. Pretty cool? What others?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Create an Animoto Account and apply to Animoto for a Cause. Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Set up Flickr Profile. Apply to the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Design a custom banner, sidebar column image, and video page banner, if applicable. Create a “Thank You” video, if applicable. Create galleries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause or charity. Create a birthday card by remixing a photo of Beth or remix one of your own or anyone else's photo of me in flickr and send it into the Beth5.0 Need some inspiration?

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volunteering has always brought people together in service of a common cause but now we must do this online due to COVID-19. Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. Build a Photo Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Photo by Krystyl We've been hearing a lot about larger scale fundraising efforts on Twitter and cause fatigue and how it will become more and more difficult for charities to distinguish their social giving campaigns amid the noise. His cause says a lot about who he is and who is friends are! I’m known to care about charity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Posting a video opportunity on the YouTube Video Volunteers platform to find a skilled YouTube user to create a video for your cause. Related Webinar: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use YouTube, Animoto and Flickr. Ability to add a Call-to-action overlay on your videos to drive campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

.” But do selfies have benefits, especially for social change causes? I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2007

My assignment: Recommend 10 (or more) nonprofits or causes that people may consider as a holiday gift. Recommend a charity and/or cause. Extra bonus: point me to a fantastic image (cc licensed) in flickr that can be used to illustrate the post. I was assigned to write a piece for the Blogher Holiday guide for this Sunday.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

You know more about the cause. Just like the assumption about the tools, it is incredibly valuable to maintain the position that you (read: your organization, if not you personally, smartypants) know more, have more access to information about, and are more closely following news related to your cause and work than the community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Acquiring Technology Donors Software causes online community community tsdigs digital storytelling' Atomic Training All Access yearly subscriptions. Cisco Flip video camera. Plantronics headset. First Place Photo.

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NetWits

APRIL 17, 2009

You’re on MySpace, you use the FaceBook Causes application, you keep constituents informed on Twitter, you show your event pictures on Flickr, you share videos on YouTube, and you know the power of blogging tools like WordPress or Blogger. So, your nonprofit is socially networked. In short, you’re well invested in Web 2.0. Now what?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

If Friday the 13th was your lucky day, and you won the lottery, what organizations and causes would you support? In the spirit of the 25 Random Things About Me meme/online chain letter going around Facebook right now, below is a list of 13 causes that are close to my heart. What causes are close to your heart?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo.com , the new social network for causes and nonprofits created by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes went live this morning. There are fields to add your organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. I added WildAid , though I did not sign up to be an Admin for the page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

Maybe that''s because I usually donate to a cause because 1. Each year, Lauren picks three causes that are a priority for her, and gives money and time to them. Looking at my answers, I would say that the three causes to prioritize my giving to in 2014 would be public education, arts in the schools and social innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I'm working on a brief presentation for next week at Graphing Social Patterns called " Giving Good Poke: Using Social Apps and Social Media for Social Causes." And if you could upload that in Flickr. If you are one of my Facebook friends, can you help me about by poking me and taking a screen capture of the "Poke Beth?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Flickr Photo from Lanier67. " In the comments, Weiksner clarified that Facebook Causes fits the "self-expression" model of interaction and incorporates competition to enhance engagement. Danielle Brigida said, "Facebook Causes are a pretty picture of something you support." Some rights reserved.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It may be a community of geography, cause, or topic. The biggest shift with cause-specific organizing is that organizations don’t necessarily need to be involved. Photo credit: Flickr jakubsteiner ). But the opt-in is essential. Q: What are the current trends in the online community organizing? What is changing and why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Flickr Photo from DenneyTerrio. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Giving days are 24-hour online fundraising competitions that combine gamification and deep social interaction to bring communities together for local causes. How do you think offline or online crowdfunding will affect your favorite causes in 2013? million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. A “Stress Trigger” may not need to be defined, but it is something or someone that causes you to have a impulsive reaction that may not be the best response to the situation and create more stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

I was taking a trip down memory lane through my flickr stream and a search on the word "Halloween" and realized that 30 years ago today I had my first date with my husband!    I also found this photo from 1964. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Original image from dakiny in Flickr. That may not sound like a big deal, but for people, the phone has become an important tool for how they live, including how they connect and give to causes they care about. Yesterday, I explained why I’ve decided to ditch my iPhone and get an Android.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Write a novel, play, poem, essay, blog post, or article about a cause, issue, inspiring changemaker, or movement. Flickr photo credit: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter by Michael Dolan. Be a mentor, or teacher to other writers. Write an op-ed. Write your Congressperson. Write a letter for Amnesty International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2011

Image credit: 500 years of democracy and peace uploaded to Flickr by Paul Downey. I'd love to hear your time management tips for nonprofits and nonprofit consultants. Fill out the carnival form here Email a link to your post to nonprofitcarnival (at) gmail.com For others: Share your time management tips in the comments of this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. But many causes and organizations are finding that it’s a lot harder to get picked up in the local paper and/or the national news than it used to be. Given the proliferation of low-cost tools, your nonprofit can spark conversation, share your message and advance your cause all on your own terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. They need to build relationships with influencers who will trumpet their cause and campaigns. The point is that crowdfunding is not all that radical or difficult if the cause teams with influencers who are willing to use their online influence to drum up support. Guest post by Jesse Noyes.

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