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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. How much good will is generated by those contributed and by the winners of the contest whose works will be posted on the Nature Conservancy’s FB and Tumblr.

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Member Round Up: Inspiring events, new research, and contests!

NTEN

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues.

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How To Display Flickr Photos With A Tag

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click to Flickr Photos Tagged with 07ntc in A Slide Show Presentation. I got asked this question several times during various presentations/panels at I was on at the NTC, including the Flickr Affnity Group session on Wednesday. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?"

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Storytelling in the Digital Age: Lessons from the SOCAP12 Conference

Tech Soup

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). Zeega is currently in the "beta" stage of development so you must request an invite to test it out. To get inspired, check out these projects made with Zeega.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. 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.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

test and teweak. 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. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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