Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. Much to the chagrin of traditional media, the new leaders of the nonprofit sector will function much like reporters. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

And most importantly: it will be documented and shared by large numbers of people, experiencing it first hand, and sharing news and updates in real time. Invite everyone to join the movement by sharing pictures, stories, and signs to spread your message (try Flickr or Tumblr ). “The revolution will not be televised.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2005

But thanks to the blogher flickr stream and blogher participants with digital cameras, I found a few photos that documented my presence. Living in the moment at blogher and then seeing the images is almost like a conceptual art piece that disappears, but the digital documentation of it lives on. this morning.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

Flickr photo: Anne Helmond The Rob Stuart Memorial Award honors the spirit of the man who was so pivotal in creating our community. Founder, Mark Horvath was moved by his own past exprience as a homeless person to document real people, telling their own, very real stories… unedited, uncensored and raw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Documentation of Session. Panel Wiki: This is a hub for the panel and includes our session outline, resources, slides, and documentation. Panel Wiki: This is a hub for the panel and includes our session outline, resources, slides, and documentation. Our session is here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The tracking documents you use can be living, evolving documents. Well if we wanted to talk about all of it we would just look at the tracking documents! —– Photo credit: richardjingram on Flickr. You will have data points that become irrelevant, it’s okay.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

are headed to Zambia to document a community who doesn’t have a school, in as close to real-time as possible. Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Steve Heyes, a colleague and founder of LearnAsOne , has just embarked on a great journey to Zambia and you’re invited! Follow LearnAsOne on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2013

all of your documents across all of your Windows devices, so they can be accessed from anywhere. All you need to do is save documents to your. Never again will you have to email yourself a document or risk. variety of new rich media options to make your documents, presentations, and other files more interactive and engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Flickr Photo by Tiffany.Ann.M. We see it when people share documents/templates. Guest post by Scott Bechtler-Levin. It was good to see how different people are aligning sector culture, systems, and incentives to encourage individuals and institutions to take the extra time to magnify their impact by closing triangles.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

SharePoint Workspace Mobile supports editing Office documents and saving them back to your organization's SharePoint site. If you have a Flickr account, you can manage, organize, and share images using the free Flickr mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows phone. Not using a Windows phone? Have a different smartphone?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. I can also email a link to the file to anyone else, like a collaborator on the document or a staff member that needs a copy. For the ED, the ultimate win for technology comes when we get even 1% more efficient.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Image credit: Flickr opensourceway. Looking at deeper or wider can be more exciting than just new. Looking at deeper or wider can be more exciting than just new. I’d love to hear your ideas, experiences and additions to these remarks though and especially any examples you have!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc. We know, another log-in! Humans are trouble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. Documentation creates internal value. You have to think like a scientist, documenting your experiments at the beginning, middle, and end. Document on the fly I don't wait until the end of the project. Listening leads to engagement.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: W.D. As the first Salesforce guide for nonprofits, the manual is a "living" document, so you can also contribute it. Vanlue Fundraising tips, some new (and free!) Cloud for Good released Salesforce 101 for Nonprofits , a free app to help answer questions ranging from, "How do I login to Salesforce for the first time?"

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Flickr: Jeff_Werner Over in the Nonprofit Webmasters affinity group , Melissa Barry from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation started a great conversation. Calibre : Calibre is an e-book management tool that also converts documents into a number of e-book formats. You can then foward the link or embed the material.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Share the story : Documenting the offline action and sharing that via photo or video preserves the story and gives members a chance to share this with others. Kroll suggests watching what your community is watching, i.e. take a look at Flickr statistics to get a sense of what people are interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). Again, expect a full report from Zoetica about how this worked as a tool as a back channel and documentation tool for the conference. Hope you will too.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Travlr After I sent out a message announcing our Drupal Webinar Series , my in-box filled up with "Isn't the first one of those scheduled for Inauguration Day? First, read the Citizen Media Law Project's essential guide to documenting the inauguration. Join The Chronicle of Philanthropy's inauguration Flickr group.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Furthermore, Social By Social document pioneers like Simon Berry who used new media to successfully lobby the Coca Cola Corporation to support African aid. Nonprofits and their staff will learn to engage a community, develop a blog strategy, define key metrics, scale up activities and sustain projects via the latest tools.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2011

Megaphone: Flickr: floeschie Every week we pull together interesting tid-bits from across the web where NTEN members are making – or writing – headlines! This week, we're seeing members do both: garnering headlines for awards and news and putting the spotlight on their ideas. Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

We have a team of social media volunteers who youtubing , blogging , flickring , and Twittering the work by these dedicated volunteers.  The qik video documents some of the tasks the volunteers are doing today.   Over at the blog, you can read some of the live posts or see videos about the Share Our Strength Day of Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. View more documents from E-Mediat. Over the past year, I’ve developed curriculum for 11 days of instruction in networked approaches, social media strategy, and practical skills delivered in five workshop modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2006

Ilve documented the drive in flickr (when I was not driving) Our 350 mile drive. Are we there yet? Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. We started off early this am.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2014

Perhaps you have a multi-location walk/run planned for your nonprofit and want to take document the events via Instagram. Using IFTTT, you could actually take all user-generated Instagrams from the geographic locations of the walks/runs and funnel them into a Dropbox or Flickr account. The event has been documented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. The CultureLabX , a global community of future of work practitioners came together to define what workplace culture is and isn’t, defines it as: Source: Culture Code – from CultureLabx – Click to view full document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Michaela Hackner , a talented photographer, was on hand to document the Day of Service on Flickr. Photos: Lydia Mann - Flickr. This year, several volunteers, used whrrl a mobile app that lets you and your friends collaborate on creating a story through photos, maps, and updates at a particular location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nutmeg66. Currently, I listen for information about several specific areas: me, Technola, Pro Bono Net, document assembly, and access to justice ( legal aid , pro bono legal services, Legal Services Corporation , and so on). Online, I spend time listening , attempting to separate signal from noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See YouTube : Documentation of our work and to inform people about some of the initiatives we are participating in. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I'm hoping that video blogging can be spread to the nonprofit sectors - as a way for organizations to tell their stories and document their work. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. Where do I find more information?

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. We already share this data regularly: we put it in documents for our funders and our annual reports, and if we're really bold, we put it up on our blog. Kindergarten used to be less about academics and more about the socialization kids need to survive in school. How many clients do you serve?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Faith in Practice won an Honorable Mention in the Digital Storytelling Online Challenge for their Flickr story submission. I got a chance to connect with Ashley Messick , a winning lady behind the winning organization, to find out more about her work. What organization do you work for and where are you located?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Receive low effort / watching: LinkedIn, Facebook, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, Paid channels. We don't really use YouTube or Scribd internally, for example, but have had good luck with clients that produce lots of video or documents. We currently manage 14 digital media channels at Forum One: Web sites (five). Blogs (five). LinkedIn page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. see flickr photo ].

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