Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? Absolutely brilliant!

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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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. Examples of Wikis. Another example of a wiki created by volunteers is the Community Organizers Handbook. If desired, different users can have different levels of control over sharing, editing, and removing information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application. They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The question is "When is video a good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. The paper provides concepts and specific examples. We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source. It is heavily influenced by the writings of Clay Shirky ( Here Comes Everybody ). What does working wikily mean?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. NTEN is People! Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. I look for examples that match the principles for effective use and incorporate them into the presentation. A lot of his ideas connect to social media strategy best practices - for example the reiteration process and listen, learn, and adapt. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? You can read about the 'web office 2.0'

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JANUARY 22, 2010

One of the most compelling examples are the Crisis Camps that the community of developers and web geeks are leading around the world. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2005

It's no accident that services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Flickr, del.icio.us, and the like may be expected to bear a Beta logo for years at a time. It's no accident that services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Flickr, del.icio.us, and the like may be expected to bear a Beta logo for years at a time. A real-life example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Susie's Blog asks readers for examples of showing the need for ICT support in the VCS, "perhaps in the mould of terrible - things - we - have - witnessed - by - orgs - who - were - wildly - going - off - on - their - own - without - money - or - guidance." " I'm sure we could find a few examples in America and elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. You can do something to help donor give with their head - for example Donors Choose.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Like Google buying YouTube , or Yahoo buying flickr. Remember that as good and open and free as Salesforce is, it also can be acquired, and nothing is guaranteed.) We have power and options in using open source solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr Photo by DonkeyHotey. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. He offered to do this guest post about it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Flickr: HeathBrandon Even in a world where information overload is the norm, NTEN Members know how to get the word out – and even discuss how they curate information. This $10,000 prize is awarded to talented and creative individuals who develop open source software products that demonstrate impressive value to the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. In yet another example of the connectedness of the Web2.0, Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. It is also becomes my muse and a key source of inspiration. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "by" License. Flickr photo from Markopolos. published in 1999.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. For example, I???ve

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. For example, see the followers of @ NonprofitOrgs by country at tweepsmap.com/!nonprofitorgs. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. For example, see this recent Present.me

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. Flipagram :: flipagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

So when I met Brad, a little while after I had left CivicSpace, it seemed like, "Hey here is someone who has already sort of had this idea and has gotten a very small example of this started. Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Here's an example that took me 3 minutes to create: fill out this form to be added to our imaginary directory ! For example, here's my Delicious page. You can do similar things on Flickr and YouTube to share images and videos of interest. You can see my network --the people who I'm connected with.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

They have some great examples on the Pixlr blog as well. is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. At TechSoup we’re big fans of the Flickr's Creative Commons page to find photos and videos we can use.

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