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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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good. Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? It was a photo caption contest based on the popular LOLcats site where users share photos of Cute Cats with funny captions. The campaign also urged people to learn more about how to protect these adorable creatures and get engaged with the campaign. We learned with the Wendy???s

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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). Learn More About Digital Storytelling. Want to learn more about telling your story on the web? To get inspired, check out these projects made with Zeega.

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NTEN

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? The events don't always have a set topic, but are open discussions for questions, sharing, and learning from your peers. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. Click here to view the video. 54 people joined the group.

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NTEN

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. Learn more about the challenges, check out the winners, and submit an idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2008

Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. I've learned a lot from Alan. 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. And he loves dogs). I trust him. I refer people to his blog.

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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. This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. Here is what he learned. Guest Post by Marc van Bree. All are captured here ).

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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

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. Also helps for communicating with UGC contestants and winners.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. List, Learn, Adapt - concept from David Armano: “Insight must before investment when implementing a social media project.&#. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. TSDigs” will begin in February, so learn more now and register to participate in the webinars and Twitter chats! Nonprofits will be able to ask Cause members to make a pledge, create a quiz, and launch a voting contest on their page. Has your organization told an inspirational digital story?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In case you missed it, See3 staff have been guest-blogging on Care2 's Frogloop NTENny Beth Kanter captures online crowdsourcing, of a kind (Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg) this week. " GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. If you read Joan's blog or Foko, you will learn that Madagascar is a very poor country. I just did).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to all my networks. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Take a look at what the Learning Community is doing. Flickr makes it easy to get started!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process. or to start their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Joe, what you are missing are the contest platforms,” said Michael.

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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. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. That photo is one of my most viewed flickr photos and resulted in a number of inquiries for work. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. I'm nervous. It's messy. Step 1: Find People. Another example.

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Museum 2.0

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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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

More than 700 people are here in Austin, both clients and partners, to learn about what Convio is up to, and to learn from each other about best practices for nonprofits online. They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. So the issue is more how to best match your strategy, outcomes, and audience with the right tool and what type of simple experiment can you set up and what will you learn? Make it fun.

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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. Learn About Your Fans. Ask questions. Use quizzes. Publicize events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. recommends that to learn more about social networking, you need to get hands-on and provides five places to do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. Larry told me about the what they learned from the results: - Our blog brought in traffic, we thought it was just fun to. 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. You are encouraged to develop an emotional commitment to your choice of participant (not necessarily monogamously), learning more about them as they stay in the programme, and in live shows, to support your favourite with your vote each week.

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APRIL 10, 2008

framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. In 30 minutes, you can learn a lot about your institution and visitor opinions of it. Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. and museums. I provided the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. is an attitude , not a download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! This is the pitch that moves people from learning to doing. ABOUT THE #FIXMYPITCH CONTEST. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! The results of the Extreme Makeover will be revealed in a follow up post on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Seek out great images: Borrow images from others - Flickr has a treasure trove of Creative Commons accessible images you can search through to find the perfect image for your message. You can learn a lot from your audience from the responses inspired by question you ask with images.

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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. ??? Our Flickr photo contest. t we just use Flickr???s That way, we let Flickr and Yahoo worry about developing the technology while we???re t use Flickr very much.

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