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Dog Days of August: Slow Blogging, Dog Safety, and Other Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Beth. They are also running a contest : The Red Cross is also encouraging dog owners to cool off during these dog days by diving into the American Red Cross Pet Photo Pool. Get your camera ready and sniff out these instructions to enter our Dog Days of Summer photo contest. Life slows down.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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And the winner is. and some reflections on user-generated content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

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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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Riffing on David Armano's Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization's Adaption Stories!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. 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. made it as easy as possible for people to participate.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc.