Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They've had months and months to hone their work flow and the Red Cross Social Media Team has it down to a science. 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. There is a web and Facebook version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. In March 2014, DICK’s Sporting Goods and the DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation announced a $25 million multi-year commitment to support youth athletic programs including donations to and sponsorships of local sports teams. million reached youth sports teams facing severe financial challenges.

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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. What a great team-building and healthy idea! It's been info overload around here, but that's a good thing!

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APRIL 27, 2009

ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up.

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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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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

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. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools. members ten at a time.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? “We don’t think that’s good for the environment.&# Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. I think there are three reasons for this.

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Care2

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?

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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?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 24, 2007

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MARCH 18, 2008

60) Search « Whats an Email Address Worth? | Main | The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji » Tuesday Mar 18 2008 LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 03:23PM | by James OMalley Carie Lewis from HSUS tipped us to another clever Web 2.0 We made the cute little guy in this post.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Vernon Avenue | Alexandria, VA 22301 tel: 703.548.1855 | fax: 703.995.4937 Contact Us © 2010 Forum One Communications Corporation, All rights reserved Privacy Policy Forum One Blogs Influence Blog Technology Blog User Experience & Design Blog Online Community Report Blog Company Blog Stay Connected Delicious Slideshare Facebook YouTube Twitter (..)

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Vernon Avenue | Alexandria, VA 22301 tel: 703.548.1855 | fax: 703.995.4937 Contact Us © 2010 Forum One Communications Corporation, All rights reserved Privacy Policy Forum One Blogs Influence Blog Technology Blog User Experience & Design Blog Online Community Report Blog Company Blog Stay Connected Delicious Slideshare Facebook YouTube Twitter (..)

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. It was more important to the ScratchR team to acknowledge every new submission prominently on the homepage than to check each one first. join a gallery, and participate in a "design studio" (a ScratchR team-led gallery). most views) but in recency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. His team includes writers, designers, and web producers. Our Flickr photo contest. but wouldn???t

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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. 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 14, 2009

A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Flickr helps us to show the story.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

At Greenpeace, they have a team of interns who work to respond to people it pays off. 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. 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. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Putting together a team of incredibly talented, committed and fun professionals. OK – here are a couple: 1) Hiring - even though I am very proud of the team I ended up with, I was not always good at hiring. During your time working in the nonprofit industry, what was one of your greatest accomplishments? How much time do we have?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Putting together a team of incredibly talented, committed and fun professionals. OK – here are a couple: 1) Hiring - even though I am very proud of the team I ended up with, I was not always good at hiring. During your time working in the nonprofit industry, what was one of your greatest accomplishments? How much time do we have?

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