Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops.

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MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

flickr: Brit. The article is black and white: Gladwell is clearly oversimplifying the situation, creating a false dichotomy between (social) network based movements and the hierarchical system that helped propel the Civil Rights movement forward, specifically the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 , which he references throughout the article.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

In a networked nonprofit, VCs might also use Twitter to receive questions, LinkedIn to assess a candidate’s background, VolunteerMatch.org or GreatNonprofits.org to provide reviews from real volunteers, and Flickr and Youtube to inspire and inform volunteer prospects. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. The openness sparks creative solutions, collaborations, accelerates partnerships, and sharing. A year ago, most systems were walled gardens, closed proprietary systems).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. What we do know is that this is a vastly improved feedback system. A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea.

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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. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment. There's lots of examples in this blog. The Case Study.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? And good data management can help us solve those problems more effectively by allowing us to make better business decisions, collaborate more effectively, and engage the public and our clients in solving the problem, too. It's feast or famine. Big problems.

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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. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. From Flickr User EJK.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. Sites like Flickr (which lets users post and tag images) and del.icio.us (which does the same.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). The museums developed careful rules about what could and couldn't be shot, and how participants could upload their images to Flickr for use by the project.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I especially talk about the benefits of using Microsoft Office 365 for email, file sharing and collaboration. Nonprofits typically have outdated systems that they are paying too much to use and support. All of the buzz is around VoIP systems so naturally, they want to know more about it. I know it’s boring but.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. Whichever system he though of -- by workplace, by floor or seat number -- seemed to favor some people over others." From the article: ". A chronological order made no sense, either, considering the manner in which people died.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by smemon. and ” Re-inventing Collaboration: CRM as Social Technology ” for more details on “orders of engagement.” In ” Re-inventing Collaboration: CRM as Social Technology ” I noted that “the systems we use to manage our relationships eventually transform into the systems we use to collaborate with those relationships.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. The key with all of these new web tools is that they help us make our work more collaborative, help our network come alive!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems. NMC Flickr Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! Do you have advice?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Take a look below at this quick round-up of nonprofits blogs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Human contact is hard to come by, and while websites and phone systems provide the basics, there are many visitors with complex questions—often more interesting questions—who are turned away by the frustrating inability to reach a real person. Consider what happened when the Library of Congress put some of their photo collections on Flickr.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. We had several community discussions about the competition disincentivizing collaboration--the money sent a contradictory signal to all our talk about sharing. The Tech Virtual was launched as a two-platform system: a website and a Second Life island.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Have a centralized file system to store media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones. Understand how to have influence via electronic participation and collaboration. We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. So, I'm giving it away.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Have a centralized file system to store media.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. At the same time, the Internet continues to mature as a gateway for “cloud computing,” in which remote datacenters host data and serve applications over the Web for use across a broad spectrum of devices and IT systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Cool Factor : Personal PSAs , 24 Hours, and Collaboration. Objective : Implement an emergency notification system for all the University campus community. Cool Factor : Campus Alert System. It’ll be interesting to see how other systems and institutions implement a similar strategy. *. Emergency Preparedness.

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MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. He's talking about sharing content and interacting with others that heightens intelligence through collaboration with other people and with machines. This is your brain on drugs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2013

national recycling system or law, so in some Midwestern, western and southern states, recyclers tend to charge something to properly dispose of IT discards. This is collaboration between Dell and Goodwill to accept anything with a battery or plug at no cost in most states and also Eastern Canada. There is, as yet, no U.S.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Do you need a way to do research and brainstorm collaboratively with your team? Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. You can do similar things on Flickr and YouTube to share images and videos of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It Dutch Nonprofits Collaborate With Del.icio.us. Nonprofits and Tagging: Two Case Studies. The Tips.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

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. That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. Totally agree with the flickr one. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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