Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2010

Flickr photo credit: Juicy Fruit uploaded by Rumple/Kurt. Just a quick reminder that the deadline to submit your post about How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog to this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival is Tuesday, July 27th. Your post doesn't have to be long (100-200 words). For more information, see the original call for submissions.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

flickr: ryancr Not to toot our own horn (although we love to do that around here) but do you know about our RoundTables? Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2010

To see an example of a blog carnival, check out the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival roundup hosted by Rebecca Leaman at Wild Apricot on the topic of Managing Your Members Online. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! I *love* blogs, and want to see more organizations use them in a fun and engaging way soooooo.as by sunshinecity.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

The example he used was the hero myth: an underdog starts from nothing, becomes educated or stronger by way of a mentor, and then saves the world. 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).

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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 1, 2008

This is an example of the types of ongoing, online conversations I've been having with CogDog blog's Alan Levine over the past three years. Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. His blog was one of the first I discovered and have been hooked ever since. And he loves dogs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

March of Dimes: PSA Video Contest. Last year, The March of Dimes ran a flickr photo contest to help draw attention to premature births. This is an excellent example of integrated social media campaign that is using technology tools very appropriate to the audience. There are also banners and widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

You can see some fancy examples on BookVideos.tv Here are a couple examples of videos individual authors created on their own: • Gayle Brandeis' video for her novel, Self Storage • Michael Belfiore's video for his book, Rocketeers 5. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Livingston - corporate example, Network Solutions, negative perseption issues related to their brand (google your organization’s name and “sucks&# and see what comes up!), but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. Nonprofits will be able to ask Cause members to make a pledge, create a quiz, and launch a voting contest on their page. Here is an example of the new tools that will be available soon! 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

MARCH 3, 2009

Take for example, Drew Olanoff, who I had the pleasure of meeting at Gnomedex last summer. I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. Photo by Steve Garfield. Thank you Steve!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. A powerful and recent example of this is the Smithsonian’s campaign to Reboot the Suit and preserve the space suit Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon. After all, I was ancient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. Update: I just saw Seth Godin's " I Gave the Office " -- My fundraising on behalf of the Sharing Foundation is an example of what he is describing. My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 13, 2008

Check out Ace of Cupcakes' photos of dog-related cupcakes they made for a fundraiser, and these Flickr photos of 100+ cupcakes a woman baked to benefit the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. For more information, go to the Duncan Hines National Bake Sale Contest site. The event's website, www.rspcacupcakeday.com.au

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. So I sent out a trial balloon on the list and in our flickr group discussion area. Top Three Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. Here's a few (good) examples of how I have remixed other people's work or other people have remixed my work. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. It gets your work out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. But looks that they are catching up, check out Burleigh Mountain's Channel , for example. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Go vote here.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Hold contests. 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. By far, the most compelling content is anything that sparks conversation. Use quizzes.

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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

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. There's lots of examples in this blog. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment.

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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. apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. UK examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples. Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The secret of reality TV’s success is the viewer’s involvement with the ‘journey’ of the contestants. In reality TV, producers manipulate viewers’ reactions by shrewd production choices and editing that make boring contestants seem more interesting (see this great article for more analysis on this).

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APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. In these examples, staff are continually producing new content and interacting with the community via comment boards and other uploaded user-generated content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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JULY 5, 2006

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JULY 5, 2006

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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. ??? s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. Our Flickr photo contest. t we just use Flickr???s t use Flickr very much. but wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The example I talk about in the poem covers the initial use of NWF's twitter accounts and then continues to how we actually starting using it to improve and grow one of our programs- "wildlife watch". is a great example of this. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Flickr helps us to show the story. set audience.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. For example, check out this discussion about the Monte Carlo method, Pi, and what it means to be forty. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. Yes, you can mark projects as your favorites, comment on them, and "love" them.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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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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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example. Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

For example: Mobile devices? For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid. Peer-to-peer fundraising? Online social networks in general? Cause marketing?

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