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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). Flickr has that content (and makes the photo easier to find).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. A few organizations in the nonprofit sector are exploring the power of the this type of gaming medium for social justice - take Camp Darfur for example.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

as an inital example), Kevin Carey of HumanITy invited Hiroshi Kawamura, the new President of the DAISY Consortium and me to lunch on Brighton beach. The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. An example clue may be: near the towels; or in sea on the South West coast. To make life easier the boxes will grow bigger and after about an hour they will disappear.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For the past week, examples of daily practices around creativity and giving have been showing up, so I thought I'd share them with you. Most people post a photo of what they made on their blog, or Flickr. ~Martha Graham Do you ever have weeks where a word, image, or idea keeps popping up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education. For example, Project Renewal helps homeless people get off the streets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. Second Life isn???t

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2012

Flickr: ATOMIC Hot Links Ahhh, Labor Day weekend: the barbeques and parades, the hot rod drag race finals, and the wistful goodbye to summer, white shoes, and seersucker suits. If you're in the Washington, DC area, the early bird registration rate for the AgileDC 2012 conference expires September 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. This puts even more pressure on us to figure out how to bridge the gap between digital and real life. Another example comes from a presentation that Carie Lewis from HSUS did in June, “ Beyond the Facebook Like. And, that is how they measure success. This advice still holds true.

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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. Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking.

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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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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. This tends to address 95% of the questions that arise.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Flickr: coolcatcookie Our community continually strives to further their missions and help other organizations further their causes, too! Enjoy, smile, and don’t forget that your calling/cause in life is yours to determine! Anything we missed? Share your links in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. We got 100 comments 5 minutes from nonprofit and other professionals sharing why they thought it was valuable. 3 We are a youth summer program.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

One of my longtime flickr contacts, an artist named Darlene, just sent me a note that when her paycheck arrives, 10% is going to the Sharing Foundation. So, in return, I'm plugging her cause - Life in Africa and this cause. Is this an example of the virtual gift economy? OMG, I can't believe this generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. It is a generic list of results and examples of Key Performance Indicators. This is a new way of thinking for a lot of nonprofits (not all), so the checklist is a useful way to bring the concept to life. The example highlights how they link their key result area to a KPI to associated metrics.

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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. Tagging communities or unbounded networks that might come to life around a tag are not new. For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags. Another example is their use in a policy debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nutmeg66. Listening also gives me the opportunity to observe and participate in conversations that don't, and won't, happen in my offline life. For example, I don't have a very common name, so I use (Katherine OR Kate) AND Bladow. Online, I spend time listening , attempting to separate signal from noise.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. And never the twain shall meet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. It’s just that they’ve shown some sign of life. Throughout her webinar she pointed to nonprofit examples from the Red Cross to UNICEF, so she’s paying attention to what our sector is doing. She said that you don’t really know who those people are or if they’re truly engaged with your cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, let''s say you were hoping to sit down at the beginning of this year and map out a BIG plan for your life. Eliminate some of the things that have been taking up the space we need to create. Adapt to the space we have and embrace our limits. You were going to make a 1-year plan, a 5-year plan and a 10-year plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Keep in mind that a user on Flickr consumes and engages with media differently than the audience that engages on Instagram simply because of how the platforms of engagement are set up. But more important, the report walks you through a nifty decision-making process and shows you how to determine the value and life-cycle of an emerging tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I am reading your stuff on 2nd Life, for example, not yet jumping in myself. I recently set up an affinity group over at NTEN called Nonprofits and Flickr as an experiment to see if there was an opportunity to set up a peer group not only share knowledge but the experimentation.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with. If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. Credit to Flickr user: Aberdeen Proving Ground 10. Set "Who can pin items?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." Yet another great example of using Web2.0 Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life. Covey notes that these views of life have been deeply scripted within us, suggesting this mindset goes beyond the nonprofit workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) , for example, shot amazing video of their work in India, Uganda and El Salvador a few years ago. Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Take for example, Drew Olanoff, who I had the pleasure of meeting at Gnomedex last summer. Two weeks ago, Drew announced his Twitter fundraising campaign to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation , a charity that "grants wishes for children with life threatening medical conditions." Louis Gray has an interview with her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. So much of our work life is being in meetings, but many times are a participant, not the meeting leader. What can we do as a participant to make meetings more productive? One of the modules is on meetings. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

My Flickr Set: RootsCamp SL Machimina Session. I learned about the Second Life Camera Controls Tutorial and now playing with the camera in SL during meetings is my new form of 3D doodling. It includes pointers to good examples and excellent tutorials. Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah). A great FAQ is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

It is another excellent example of "pivot" browsing, similar to del.icio.us A Second Life for the Archivist. Flickr and Libraries. At last month's NetTuesday , Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare gave a presentation on how Nonprofits can use SlideShare. Google: The Search Engine Industry.

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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. Heck, that a lot of exposure beyond flickr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

For example, in her post, Here’s a good fundraising appeal: I gave on Katya's Nonprofit Blog , Katya Andresen shares 5 reasons she liked the appeal she received from Imagination Stage. Her favorite came from Interplast because it told the story, with photos, of one boy whose life would be changed because of donations like hers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 22, 2009

For example, a former housemate once gave me a beautiful Moroccan plate of hers that had hung in our kitchen when we lived together. Maybe you've got life figured out, but I sure don't. I know regifting is considered to be tacky, but I think it can work if you put a little thought behind it. A favorite quote or words of wisdom.

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