Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. This year however, we broke records in terms of money raised on social sites (due mostly to our work around the Gulf oil disaster).

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Flickr photo: Logan was his name-o It's been just a few hours since one of the largest recorded earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit off the coast of Japan. Just a few short years ago, technology in disaster response was a different animal all together. Data emerged as the most important asset to any disaster response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations. Social media has radically changed how people communicate, including their calls for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Stay tuned for more conversations about topics ranging from microvolunteering to disaster response. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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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. but I enjoy saying " I am only 20 ") I this is the best gift ever! I just did).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr by Leo Reynolds. Ushahidi ( [link] ) allows people to pool information into online crowdmaps with diverse uses—for example, allowing aid workers to see where resources are most needed after a natural disaster. Guest post by Paula Goldman. The wisdom of crowds, the insanity of crowds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. For example, I raised $120,000 for Japan disaster relief by showing how the tsunami destroyed cities and displaced communities. He falls into something bad and gets more and more evil each day. You can focus on the negative as part of your storyline.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

Photo by David Tames from his flickr stream. after I've cleaned up my computer disaster and recovered from lack of sleep. Flickr is one excellent example of community moderation. The Boston Media Makers is a community of practice consisting of people in the Boston area who are making (new) media. He noted that Blip.TV

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Flickr photo from: Just Me Robin Photos "Fried Green Tomatoes anyone?" Online giving is tracking to the trends of online shopping and banking, and it is the avenue of choice for donors during disasters. Most online giving goes to disaster agencies, followed by animal-related causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. The intent of the Red Cross venue is to give visitors a taste of the atmoshpere in disaster areas, how hard it can be to reach a relieve post and thus try to raise commitment to the organisations work. "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement??? is like eating an elephant: it???s s a big job and you???re

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I was impressed by the number of developers who came out to support the idea that improved technology tools could help deliver aid more quickly, coordinate large numbers of people, allow for information transparency among aid groups, and potentially forecast humanitarian disasters to avoid huge loss of life. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. Ironically, and what made that lesson so powerful, is that I wasn’t at the training program on social media to learn, but to conduct it with Ana-Marie Jones of CARD – Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Flickr: visit~ fingerlakes Where I come from , there's a lake , and every year on the Saturday before Labor day when the sun goes down, everyone who lives on that lake turns off their house lights, lines their waterfront with lit red flares, and builds a bonfire. Amy Sample-Ward was kind enough to break it down for us back in February.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Flickr Photo by Beth. There's information about heat safety, pet first aid, and disaster planning. We're in the middle of the dog days of summer when people go on vacations and it's hot outside. Life slows down. It is always a sad time of year for me. That's my favorite photo of her.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

TechSoup has long sent our old phones to the 911 Cell Phone Bank , a nonprofit that provides emergency cell phones and funds to meet the unexpected and urgent needs of law enforcement and disaster victims. They distribute about 1,000 emergency phones a month to those who need them. Phones 4 Charity. Please log in to comment.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

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. over time have gotten other metrics and impact from working on this goal. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr.

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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. Because the international community and media have failed to respond to this environmental disaster, they are bringing the campaign to the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Why Causecast is a Fundraising Game Changer: Workplace giving platforms like Causecast are one-stop portals where employees can donate, request matching gifts, quickly respond to disasters and tragedies and launch crowdfunding and social media campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

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. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. How would you organization cope with a natural disaster? Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click" Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session. Tim Fullerton gives us a quick review of the NTC as a first-timer, as does Marc Sirkin. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters. general disaster-interested public. . set audience.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2005

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We had to be honest with them (and express our own personal frustration at changes we could not control) for this to not be a disaster. This is similar to the issue many museums deal with of whether to engage in established social spaces like Flickr, Youtube, etc. When we changed something, we were changing it on people.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things. You can almost imagine ripples of story supernova spreading at the speed of light as the news of the disaster spreads in its aftermath.

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