Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

It has been a long day of pondering inbetween rapid attention shifting tasks, dipping into email, pinging IMs, and browsing feeds. Then onto pondering for a project to collect leads for professional nonprofit conferences and trying to figure out what will be easier for respondents - email reply or wiki. My brain is tired. Why bother?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2007

Flickr has just added a feature called "collections." " It lets you aggregate your photo sets! I put a collection together of all my photos from and about Leng Sopharath. The official flickr blog post is here. He notes: It is great to see flickr innovating. I've been waiting for this one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Here's an interview with Nature Conservancy staff members Evan Parker and Susan Citro about how the organization is using Flickr. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? We have had really great success on both fronts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This photo is from the Humane Society's recent "Wendy That's Not Right" campaign. This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. The flickr pool of photos is here. And please only send photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

And though some reports claim that email use is dropping , others claim its use is steady and even on the rise. That said, the roles of email and e-newsletters are constantly evolving and even though the number one activity on mobile phones is email, that could change in the future. Any day of the week and without hesitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo. My colleague, Liz Henry , pinged this morning asked me to take a photo of myself the above sign. EFF and partner organizations will be bringing these photos to lawmakers, reminding them that Americans demand their privacy rights and deserve their day in court against lawbreaking telecoms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

So, while I'm waiting for my 2800 plus email messages to download and organizing almost as many flickr photos, I discovered a wonderful new FREE mapping program called Wayfaring. So, I plotted our vacation where we logged almost as many miles as I have email messages and linked to flickr photo sets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Leo 980. Flickr has announced a new feature - that you can post 90 second videos on flickr. What really fascinating is that there is a " No Video on Flickr Group " that has over 12, 000 members. " Here's my backyard shot with my camera phone and posted by email. The FAQ is here.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2010

Flickr photo: kcolwell We know that you, my fellow NTEN community members, are rock stars. You can write fundraising email copy in your sleep and hand code your e-appeal while making breakfast and watering your plants. You are fundraising email campaign ninjas! Enter the Paperless Choice Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. Your photos should not only resonate with your audience, it should tell a story, not be copyrighted, and be a decent photo (not blurry or poorly composed). You can take your own photos or use stock photography. Don’t forget to add your URL or logo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). There will be times this year when a thank you email or tweet just isn’t enough to communicate your appreciation. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Linktribution is given to Alan for designing the flickr contact acquisition behavior scale. My virtual colleague, Alan Levine, posted a reflection about educational technologists flickr contact acquisition behavior. If I cannot tell who it is (which is hard form flickr user names), I do check them out, but nearly always I reciprocate.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nate Murray Holly and I have an ongoing competition over who can get their inbox down to zero. " We're diving into this question and many others surrounding email marketing in a 4-part webinar series, Step Up Your Email Marketing , starting this Thursday. Storytelling via Email (3/26/2009).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

skills like how to search the Internet, how to manage email, how to build a simple web page with HTML, and other good stuff. I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! I was teaching Web1.0 Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn’t fit!). After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. September 14, 1986. We’ve been together for 32 years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. Yes, they did give me a photo credit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2012

And please let me know what ocean-y blogs I missed in the comments, or email me at britt AT upwell DOT us. Flickr photo credit: Ocean Trigger Fish by Greg Grimes Full disclosure: Upwell is a client. I just put up a BIG list of blogs about the ocean on the Upwell blog: Big Blue Blogs: 88 Ocean Conservation Blogs Give 'em a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Via my flickr stream. Here's the email message I received: I stumbled upon your slide show of beautiful photos of Cambodia. We really think that your photo is absolutely stunning and it fits in perfectly within the site. My last trip to Cambodia, I photographed monks. I'm so honored.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

All that you can really assume are the things that aren’t assumptions; give your community the chance to tell you their preferences and interests, and track what you can (from email opens and clicks, to actions taken) to be sure you are responding to the facts whenever possible. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Photo by SCFiasco on Flickr. A great big thank you to Ryan over at PICnet for this hack -- I can now move my NTEN Affinity Groups emails over the reader. This, of course, assumes that haven't reaced the point of RSS reader overload and I can successfully shift my email reading habit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

Regardless of mission, nonprofits often have basic technology needs that overlap, including office productivity software, email platforms, accounting and payroll, data backup, and donor or fundraising databases. Flickr photo: torkildr. Environment America.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Email the Zambia LearnAsOne team.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2012

Flickr photo credit: Podrunzy. Is nonprofit technology moving out of the data closet and into the Cloud? We welcome your feedback and stories on this topic -- do these case studies reflect your experiences? Are there other challenges with this topic that you'd like NTEN to address in future studies? Let us know in the comments below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Worse is the impact of siloed organizations on nonprofit audiences – cuz really, how many emails can you get from the same organization before you go a little nuts? Or share that an anecdote that came from another department led to a personal response from someone on your email list.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it. There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. You can post YouTube videos to your blog posts and Flickr photos to your Upcoming.org event listings. Tag your post with “net2thinktank&# and email a link to us to be included.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Many organizations and groups currently consider multi-channel approaches for a message to include email, website, social media, and blogs. Photo credit: Flickr jakubsteiner ). We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. Don’t be afraid of failing. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. Last month, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where over 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. Good for you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. At the time, we invited Internet thought-leaders to participate in an email list discussion, focusing on interactive tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It’s important to have a place that you can link to for more information and for follow-up, instead of sharing news or updates only in a tweet or facebook message, and especially if it is just in an email newsletter. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). Have suggestions for blogs that should be added? Just let me know!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Keep your supporters and donors updated on the progress you’re making in real time via email and on social media. If you’re accepting donations, show how the money is being spent with photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

Flickr Photo by JC Burns. That is what I have found the best – grazing through curated lists is like sipping a fine wine versus drinking two-buck chuck. (You can request an invite and if you really want one, I have a few I can give away – so leave your email in a comment).

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