Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Read the TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr " 2. Come up with a list of questions of what she needs to know or learn about to design a contest that will be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. We don’t really care about views as much as we care about comments.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Flickr: Dinner Series If summer vacation has you feeling a bit out of the loop, this week's Member Round Up is ripe with opportunities to re-connect with the community and, if you're feeling lucky, take a gamble with your great, innovative ideas. Share your links in the comments! Congratulations! Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. We could tell by all the comments and images floating around. Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? trackable Raise awareness ???

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Nonprofits will be able to ask Cause members to make a pledge, create a quiz, and launch a voting contest on their page. Share your links in the comments! I’d like to start off this week’s member news by congratulating my colleague, Annaliese Hoehling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Hold contests. And by all means, when people comment on your Page's posts, respond! If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. But Michaela's favorite Flickr app is Flickr Tab.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Run a contest. Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen. Link to other bloggers in your posts. Have a blogroll. Allow readers to email posts to other people. blog blogging traffic.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. We did this graffiti interactive via Flickr. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. We learned a lot about graffiti from Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. Screencasting Panel. Where do I find more information?

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APRIL 27, 2009

but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. test and teweak.

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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. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. And, yes they did !

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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. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs. " Think through why.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. More to come from the Convio Summit 2007 Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Stephen Newberry As a Blackbaud user I’ve seen a lot of comment recently about Blackbaud’s API or lack thereof.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. Here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. A few comments over at Kikono too. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Engagement Strategie s. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. choice and when it is not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. Go vote here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The secret of reality TV’s success is the viewer’s involvement with the ‘journey’ of the contestants. On the opening day someone wrote ‘About time we had a curator’ in the comments book and I was gutted – I thought the idea had failed. Philippa will be checking in to answer any questions you might have in the comments here on the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. Larry comments sent me into my blog's search keyword referrals report and also found a connection to Taxi Cabs. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. In the comments, Michele Martin points to an interesting article " Saying You Can't Compete for Free Is Saying You Can't Compete " What is your take.on NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? We value the expertise of our colleagues and welcome any feedback or comments. Well have it available for download, soon.

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MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? We value the expertise of our colleagues and welcome any feedback or comments. Well have it available for download, soon.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. It also focused the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. Put one of your pitches in the comments and/or tweet it using #FixMyPitch. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! ABOUT THE #FIXMYPITCH CONTEST. Put one of your pitches in the comments and/or tweet it using #FixMyPitch. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching!

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MARCH 18, 2008

| Main | The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji » Tuesday Mar 18 2008 LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 03:23PM | by James OMalley Carie Lewis from HSUS tipped us to another clever Web 2.0 crowdsourcing contest by them that shows a great use of Flickrs API.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. For any project, you can "love it" (which is like giving it a thumbs-up), "add it to your favorites" (which is a private collecting function), "flag it as inappropriate," and write comments about it. The 174, 425 registered members are all joiners.

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MARCH 11, 2011

We launched a digital photo contest through Flickr in 2005, not because we thought it was going to raise a ton of money, but because we thought we could launch the whole effort in just a couple of days. Leave your thoughts in the comments. What'd I miss? What are the skills and tools that get you through your workday?

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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. ??? This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. Our Flickr photo contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Traffic, comments, tweets and other means of engagement to record. Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. They ran their contest on YouTube, but See3 has a private label, fully customizable video contest hosting, management, and marketing solution.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

(Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) For now, I'm glad to hear visitor comments like this one, from a 16-year-old girl: even though we have seen famous exhibits from picasso to monet-this is the first exhibit that makes me want to do art Amen to that.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment University Update – John Edwards – Social Networks – The last post from Yearly Kos [.] I’ve posted it on Flickr, and am also working on a more substantial blog post about our session on “Politics 2.0&# at yKos. That’s huge.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » An Open API is the New Black [.] See Read/Write Web coverage here. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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