Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Ignoring LinkedIn ‘Company’ pages. Not applying for YouTube’s Nonprofit Program.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you don’t have a good image, search Flickr Creative Commons and free stock photo sites for something that will enhance your story. You can set this photo as your social sharing image in Give Lively’s Nonprofit Member Portal so that it automatically accompanies your link, or you can simply add the photo to your posts and tweets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

3) To keep for-profit companies competitive and accountable. When the new Google+ brand pages do go live this fall, the company is very well positioned to dominate the Internet for years to come. The more these companies compete with each other, the better the tools they create for us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

3) To keep for-profit companies competitive and accountable. When the new Google+ brand pages do go live this fall, the company is very well positioned to dominate the Internet for years to come. The more these companies compete with each other, the better the tools they create for us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship instead of crying out in despair, and improvise solutions from thin air. You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualities, but you will only be truly resilient with all three. Others do not.”.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Flickr Pro account. The shutter snappers at Keshet Dance Company based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico caught our judges' attention with their powerful slideshow titled "unlimited possibilities through dance," snapping up the first place prizes for best photo story. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. In fact, research shows that pro bono and skills-based volunteerism help companies enhance their recruitment and retention rates and improve employee morale, productivity, and loyalty. If you work for a company interested in joining the campaign, visit A Billion + Change.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. Diane’s company was involved in one of the early Internet focus group efforts with its Hallmark Moms Club. He also says that the Internet is the worlds largest focus group and talks about why companies should care- great stuff!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. ” Many of these practices are used at companies that pride themselves in having productive meetings. Standing meetings are popular for check-ins on projects, especially at start-up companies. Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Keep in mind that many donors work at companies that are willing to double the donations made by employees. Encourage your donors to submit matching gift requests to their companies. My own idea: check out the clever #GivingTuesday images that Direct Relief International used on last year’s campaign on Creative Commons on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Credit: Fence photo by Tim Tolle, from Flickr. As a part of my research fellowship with the Society for New Communications Research , Kami Huyse and I are working on research about how companies that contribute to online communities fare in this important metric of change, and if this also contributes to the bottom line as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. And by contrast, will these same companies be able to degrade the experience of content that flows outside of the entertainment channels they control. From the start, Google has been one of the most forceful advocates for an open Internet. Now, the U.S.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

Flickr: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology We're still catching our breath from the NTC earlier this month, but the nonprofit technology community is as active as ever this week! Check out the campaign’s use of Flickr and Tumblr ! There is an amazing position open with an even more amazing company! Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. Less of an agency and more of a change agent.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

There’s a thread in the IllumineX support forums on it with no company response. It’s just gone. It hit me a couple of times. Well-known knit blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee complains about it here. Eric wrote to them about something else a week ago and has heard nothing back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

with government agencies, emergency management professionals, disaster response organizations, tech companies and concerned citizens. . This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. We have proposals from nonprofits, government agencies, companies and individuals who can inspire and teach us all. Note from Beth: Whether you are planning to present at a conference or deliver a one-day workshop, the secret to success is in good design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. Katie is spearheading a coalition of PR and communications associations and 6 big companies (e.g., Dell, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble) to develop and promote standards for measuring social media. So now that we know what we shouldn’t be measuring what do we do?

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In 1998, virtual call center staffing company Alpine Access opened its doors. In this interview, Alpine Access co-founder and current managing partner Jim Ball shares some insights from the company’s twelve years’ experience of working with a distributed workforce. Alpine Access started as a pure home-agent company.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Further on the Twitter terms say, "Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Zeega is a content curation tool that lets you collect video clips, sound bites, and images from sites with public media (like Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, and so on). Shapins said the company plans to open it up to the public soon. Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Check out this article for a detailed explanation of how to leverage social proof in your marketing efforts (it’s written for companies, but nonprofits can apply many of the tactics mentioned by the author). Learn more here.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr photo: shareski How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising. As I sat in the Grand Junction Colorado airport -- which is charming -- I had a conundrum: the contents of my wallet came to a grand total of 72 cents.*

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Flickr Photo: karola riegler photography I've been a woman in the tech field for ten years now. (OK, Women Who Tech , Fast Company and countless others are celebrating the role of women in this field and helping us to find our voices. . OK, I've been a woman for 34 years, but in the tech field for ten).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2009

So when it comes to designing our company's own social media strategy, it should be simple, right? Here is how we currently are approaching social media as a company. Receive low effort / watching: LinkedIn, Facebook, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, Paid channels. Blogs (five). Newsletters (two). Twitter (six accounts). LinkedIn page.

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

Flickr: Fernando Candeias Pundits love to declare radio dead. Berg and Bohse attended the NTEN Conference for the first time as Media, and recorded a live show from the conference , speaking to companies such as Google, Convio, Feeding America and more. Television killed it. iTunes killed it harder.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: zadro. There are some emerging companies working their way toward tracking this third dimension of social media ROI. Another newer company that has taken up the challenge is Morningside Analytics. P.S. - Check out these really cool 3D photos from Zadro on Flickr. Or, you can build your own glasses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. What “stage” of social media is your organization or company at? It was a fantastic laboratory to explore the power of peer learning and the right mix. After just one year, social media is playing a front-and-center role within the organization. What tools or experiments will you use to advance?

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

Flickr Photo: peppy sis Most people probably wouldn't put Earth Day and technology together, but you and I know that's just silly. Greenpeace has a handy guide to help you choose electronics from the most environmentally-friendly companies. . Buy green electronics. Take that, carbon footprint!

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2010

Flickr photo: KayCey97007 I find it highly ironic that so much energy has been spent debating slacktivism. I was tickled to see Nancy Lublin -- author of " Zilch ", and a person with whom I would really like to have a cocktail -- take up the topic in Fast Company last month. The debate has hit the mainstream media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. Geographical distance can make consumers in foreign markets feel a step out of touch; they know you’re an American company, for example so your Korean audience feels like they’re far away from you. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Mean Lux wrote a blog post , but it is in Khmer can't translate fully. May Mean Lux will drop a comment in english?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Flickr Photo by My Alieness. re part of a company in a certain space, here???s s a way to think of it: Build an ego search- Use tools like Technorati and Google Blogsearch to build a search on your company???s He begins with listening and offers these excellent small steps: What should you listen to? It depends on how you???re

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Examples include: Cell Phones for Soldiers , a nonprofit that collects mobile phone donations and sells to recycling and used phone reseller companies like Mobile Karma. They partner with a for-profit company that actually handles the entire process - from shipping to processing to the ultimate disposal of the devices.

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