Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011. Last year, over 100 organizations participated, with top submissions earning prizes from Flip Video, Adobe, Flickr, and GoldMail. Every organization has a story to tell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Image by Codilicious from 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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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

There was an overwhelming amount of talent and stories shared through the contest! Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. On Wednesday, March 28 in San Francisco – and live-streamed online – TechSoup Global will screen and award the top photo and video entries. Pacific time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Citrix Online : Do you work within a distributed work team? Then tools like GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, and GoToWebinar from Citrix Online let you share your desktop and collaborate with your creative team. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro?

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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. It's been three years and our paths have only crossed online. And he loves dogs).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

She asks (I'm paraphrasing): "How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online? Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Here are a few ideas: • A video book trailer, or video book review contest. Flickr photo contest. book online promotion. Here are a handful of ideas: 1.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;). Voting's open till Monday!

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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. NTEN Member Knight Foundation announced their latest Knight News Challenge: mobile.

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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! On Thursday, July 29th I'll post a round-up of the posts with the best tips here on Have Fun, Do Good. by sunshinecity.

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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). TechSoup holds an annual Digital Storytelling Contest and provides resources for organizations to better tell their stories. Learn More About Digital Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals. In other words, you never take your listening ears off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

and online advertising campaigns. WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? t spend money on online marketing unless its tied to a donation, advo, or other list building campaign. High engagement contest ???

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

at ARC, listening has been the core value of our last three year’s of social media (mentioned online over 400 times a day), learn what people want and expect from us. Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Flickr: Chad_Norman I'm a little late in getting last week's round-up up, but better late than never, right? " The online community will then vote on the one to use. M+R Strategic Services released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ( with NTEN ) last week, and Allyson Kapin wrote up some top take-aways.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Get an iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Flickr photo by zen??? program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. All the group has to do is to register online with the program and complete an essay of two hundred and fifty words or less describing how they the need help.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) And we should.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) And we should.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Three years later, GoFundMe is still riding the wave of social good, online payments and social networks. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Co-Disruptor: YouCaring. Disruptor: Booster. Disruptor: Omaze.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member.

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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

I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. Mental note to self: I've never actually organized a flickr walk - has anyone?

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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. Joan has been an important contributor to these roundups, providing amazing coverage at her blog, The Purple Heart.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2008

Here are a handful of ideas to get you started: In her article, 10 Fun and Great Fund-Raising Ideas for Your Workplace , Josienita Borlongan says that having a Pink Ballerina Hippo Costume Fund-Raising Contest has been very successful for her. Flickr photo credit: Bake Sale uploaded by theotherway / Michelle fundraising fundraiser office

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here. CEO Kintera steps down.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Participate in online forums and communities. Run a contest. Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen. Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. List your blog in blog directories. Finally, write posts that people want to read!

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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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. blogging from the convio summit [.]

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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. From Flickr User EJK. Flickr Farm. I'm nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2007

apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. As well as the publicity - it led to the creation of the online petition. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. So here goes: As far as the UK non-profit sector goes, most people probably don't know what web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. As in any online community, ScratchR has spectators, joiners, collectors, critics, and creators. What make Scratch users come to the online community?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like.

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