Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Original image from dakiny in Flickr. In short, Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps (read Jake Shapiro’s Editorial or this post about why Apple pulled PayPal’s app ). Tell Apple to be a good corporate citizen and let their customers give donations on the iPhone.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Filed under flickr. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Filed under flickr. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Bookmark the permalink.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Chapter 1 Websites, E-newsletters, and “Donate Now” Campaigns. The Power of Donate Now Campaigns. The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Five Must-Have Characteristics of a Donate Now Landing Page. Eleven Donate Now Best Practices for Nonprofits. Chapter 5 YouTube and Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Flickr Fan Art on a Typewrtr by CoCreator. I am a member of the Flickr Fan Art Group. So, it was actually fun to write this TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr." " It is ten tips for those who are new to Flickr to get the most out of it. (My And, if you are not on Flickr.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Not that long ago, there were dozens of charity mobile phone donation programs vying for attention. Examples include: Cell Phones for Soldiers , a nonprofit that collects mobile phone donations and sells to recycling and used phone reseller companies like Mobile Karma. What happened to them? Here’s what we found out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2011

3) Add Flickr SlideShows or YouTube videos to content pages. After a supporter donates or signs a petition on your website, be sure to add a “Connect with us!&# pitch to your “Thanks for your donation&# and “Thanks for taking action&# landing pages. The Sierra Club :: www.sierracluub.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event. Embed Video on a Donation Page. Video can compliment a donation page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2011

The option to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout “Donate&# button. Related Link: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube and Flickr. Once approved, which can take weeks and sometimes months (be forewarned), nonprofits are offered: Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

My big birthday is coming up this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Remix Contest. flickr group (you'll have to join first) with the following information in the description: -A birthday greeting. Need some tools: Here's a couple of flickr tools to help you remix. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

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. You can also access Flickr's mobile site using almost any smartphone browser. Also check out Flickr's App Garden , where developers showcase their own Flickr-based apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause or charity. Create a birthday card by remixing a photo of Beth or remix one of your own or anyone else's photo of me in flickr and send it into the Beth5.0 Need some inspiration?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

One reason may be that the online promotions of text-to-give campaigns have been mostly limited to text-only KEYWORD and SHORTCODE pitches, such as “Text TIGER to 20222 to donate $10!&# Next, upload them to Flickr or you preferred photo-sharing community. in print materials, Tweets, and Status Updates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Make a donation! Make a donation! Oh yeah, PLEASE make a donation! Enough said.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

The right photo can make or break a campaign or donation pages. Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. Take a page from Donors Choose’s personalized donation thank you letters. Build a Photo Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by Halepoki Forget chocolate, drugs, puppies, exercise, prozac, or anything else that makes you happy. There's an added benefit, people who donate generate more dopamine, the "happy" neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, craving, and reward. but it makes you feel good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Some nonprofits are just getting started and still perceive social media as cutting edge online communications and fundraising – while others have been using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr for years and increasingly verbalize that they are getting a little bored and waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

To draw attention to the issue , the March of Dimes has just announced a Flickr Photo Contest : Be a Coin Star for Babies! To participate, you join the Flickr Group , take a photo of where you keep your change, and forward it to the group. My entry is above and if I win, I'll donate my change to MOD.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2009

TechSoup is a nonprofit that partners with corporations to distribute software and hardware donations to nonprofits and libraries. Attend this free webinar at 11 a.m.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. Website: www.nature.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Family is Familia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. 01 per Status Update or Tweet, and set monthly maximums for total donations. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A website that allows nonprofits to set up web-based SupporterWalls of which spots of varying sizes and donation amounts can be purchased by your supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

There are fields to add your organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. It’s also worth noting that there is a “Donate&# function, and like most Web 2.0 fundraising tools, the donations are processed by Network for Good. I added WildAid , though I did not sign up to be an Admin for the page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The option to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout “Donate&# button. Related Webinar: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use YouTube, Animoto and Flickr. The benefits of the program incude: Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity ( View Example ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods. Be sure to add a price to your pin description so that a price banner appears on your pin: Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 2, 2008

FinancialAidPodcast suggests paying down your debt, putting it in a savings account, or donating to a charitable organization. thejivefather is going to be donating as much of his economic stimulus check as possible to support musicians in need. In her post, Feministe Feedback: Where Should I Donate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

2) ATTN Donors: Have you ever donated to a nonprofit organization through your cell phone? [ [link] ]. 5) Does your nonprofit poll your online donors about what communication tool inspired them most to donate on your Website? [ [link] ]. 5% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something in our e-newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they? It’s very difficult to read a 12″ wide website on a 2.5″ ″ wide screen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

When it comes to giving donations, I don''t think I''ve ever really thought about it that way: am I giving to what I really want to change in the world? I use that framework when choosing where to volunteer, but not necessarily when I make a donation. Maybe that''s because I usually donate to a cause because 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

On the topic of uploading and sharing photos with your supporters in real-time, for those organizations with Flickr accounts, Flickr has a mobile website ( m.flickr.com ) and numerous smartphone Apps that allow allows simultaneous posting on Twitter. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv is like TwitPic, except for video. Mobile Payments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I want to donate to an organization that supports Sandy relief in the Staten Island area, and am looking for suggestions. SILive.com has a link on its home page for people to donate to the Project Hospitality Staten Island Hurricane Relief Fund. Flickr photo credit: Staten Island Ferry by Robert Paul Young Tweet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The upper right-hand corner is the most valuable section of your website—use it to plug your e-newsletter and group text messaging campaigns, donate now functionality, and social networking communities. Have a Donate Now Button on Every Page. Navigation should be bold, bright, and obvious. Overall, avoid clutter.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Razoo also has gift cards you can purchase online and email to recipients, and instead of giving to a classroom project like DonorsChoose.org, Razoo cards can be used to donate to over 1 Million organizations! Photo: Flickr gazeronly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. Tap into that phenomenon by embedding inspirational and quirky quotes onto your images, such as: pinterest.com/pin/203154633160827892/. Space your Pinning throughout the day.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Donations were followed by an additional prompt to share on social networks to encourage others to participate through donations. The campaign.

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