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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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Learning “If you don’t launch, you don’t learn.” David Armano Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. 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.

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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. All are captured here ).

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AUGUST 21, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question comes from a friend who is helping a changemaker launch a new book. 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. Here are a handful of ideas: 1.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. Many of you know Annaliese as a great resource for any questions regarding all aspects of NTEN’s resources and nonprofit technology in general. Nonprofits will be able to ask Cause members to make a pledge, create a quiz, and launch a voting contest on their page.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. We've never met face-to-face, but I think he emailed me a question after reading an article I wrote for a print publication and we've been Facebook friends. That's Adam Nicholson.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

" The second question is the more important of the two, and the more difficult to answer. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own. Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. Empower your interns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Those of us that provide technology support for nonprofits get asked a few questions over and over (and over and over) again. Screencasts are a great new way to answer simple how-to's and record the answers to those frequently asked questions for posterity. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. Screencasting Panel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Ask a question in your title. Run a contest. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic." Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Livingston - if you don’t have their email, call them, keep asking questions but it is labor intensive. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A common question is whether to invest time in a Facebook Group or a Page. Ask questions. 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. So the potential audience is huge.

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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 question is "When is video a good. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Also see the Top Ten Flickr API Hacks and Top Ten Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why Jon Stahl's link list points to an article called " The Question " - The number-one question lurking in every executive???s

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? That was a question posed on a listserv with little response except for this observation: Micro-campaign 'competitions' are not going to last as an effective means of NPO fundraising.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2007

They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? blogging from the convio summit [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. and volcom sector adoption. is right for you and your org? Here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. it has actually made us question the value of many traditional marketing efforts. Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. I've also been using my own blog data as a sandbox for running and interpreting reports. But we don???t

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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? The following is an attempt to address this question, without any presumption that it will provide a definitive answer.

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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? The following is an attempt to address this question, without any presumption that it will provide a definitive answer.

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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). Projects participatory museum.

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APRIL 10, 2008

The biggest question that came up again and again was: how much does it cost? 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. and museums. I provided the Web 2.0 You'll see all the mentions of you in recent blog posts.

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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! KNOW: The ‘know’ pitch answers the question: ‘What do you do?’ Your ‘understand’ pitch answers these questions. It answers the question: ‘Why you?’. This pitch answers the question: ‘How can I engage?’ Guest post by Erica Mills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

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. Some questions they should ask: What did you notice about the experience of eating the chocolate? I donated $50 to the winner's charity.

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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. Choose the right message for just the right photo: Choose photos that invite questions - Ask questions about the images you post.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. Of course, the question of putting adults and kids together isn't all about safety. The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads.

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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. So I tweeted, questions and links, to see what each member thinks. Back into my cubicle turning, all the questions within me burning, Soon again I started tweeting more strategically than before. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter?

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members.

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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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JUNE 12, 2012

(Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?" A wall on which people can write answers to the question: "What's the craziest thing you've done for love?"

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AUGUST 6, 2007

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. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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MAY 25, 2007

Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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