Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. A List of Examples. It isn??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

We've gotten some excellent "user generated" content (for example, check out the tips ). If you have five minutes, and your nonprofit has a blog, podcast, youtube channel, or flickr stream that you think is an awesome example of sharing your story social media style -- add a link to it and tell us why it is awesome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

East Bay Regional Parks - Calendar from Photos in Flickr Group. Their flickr group is an example. The black smoke monster on LOST was a stream of black smoke that would appear with scary background music and people would run screaming away from it. I don’t know how many of you are LOST fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. Or making you want to find a few examples, just post your query. Maybe you don’t have time to test every app on Facebook and want some recommendations on what’s best to stream your content. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Take Crowdtangle as an example. Depending on your niche area, you may also be following curated general news sites or a news site devoted to a specific topic area, for example business , education , technology , or more specific to your nonprofit’s program area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

Flickr Photo by JC Burns. It allows you enter your sources – specific blogs or keyword searches and easily add them to nicely formated stream. Danielle Brigida’s Wildlife News (excellent example of how useful this could be for an organization’s content strategy). Karen Deitz’s Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Video: Our session was lived streamed and we have a video. Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. Our session was lived streamed. I had organized parallel online activities that mirror what we were doing the room. Our session is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2008

My Flickr Stream. I promised to send an example, but didn't get his email - so I hope he is reader here. The other day I was a guest on a NTEN Webinar with colleague John Kenyon (who says he going to star a blog) and one of the participants inquired about the use of social media and causes like Missing Children.

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JUNE 30, 2011

(Note: I am connected directly with Debra, but not with Andy) My Google+ profile automatically includes a Google Buzz tab to see the stream from that space. For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. Take for example, the netsquared conference. Both of the above examples are ones where the participants are especially comfortable with wikis and other Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. I look for examples that match the principles for effective use and incorporate them into the presentation. PopTech is an.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

Photo by David Tames from his flickr stream. Flickr is one excellent example of community moderation. Steve mentioned another live streaming site similar ustream (blog tv?). The Boston Media Makers is a community of practice consisting of people in the Boston area who are making (new) media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2007

Ben's Flickr Stream. It is also a great example of pivot browsing. Ben Sheldon 's tweet about picking up some postcards for the new Americorp web site peaked my curiosity. Luckily, Cheryl left me a comment pointing me to the Meet AmeriCorps site. They're friendly, compassionate and dirt-poor, just like us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Flickr Photo by Maurice. I went straight to the section on Flickr Sobell House is an Oxford based hospice. It uses Flickr to host all of its photos. ???It???s Flickr builds a community of photo users,??? At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community. says fundraiser Kevin Game.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. So I sent out a trial balloon on the list and in our flickr group discussion area. Top Three Takeaways.

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MAY 19, 2011

For example, is it a call to action, a fundraising appeal, or just generating awareness. An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. The chat began with the most important question of what makes a video effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. They have successfully used Facebook to identify and cultivate donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Beth's Flickr Stream. CC takes a three-pronged approach to this: 1) Include credit information in the media itself, for example credits shown at the end of a video or, as in the case of Magnatune , a ???shout-out??? What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it! shout-out??? into the file itself.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

See the Darfur scores for example. And incidentally, add #6 for outreach to additional audiences, I had a great experience participating in the brownbag and asking questions from several hundred miles away, via streaming video connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. They are incorporating the use of visual content - flickr and YouTube. There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My I will shortly.)

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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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APRIL 27, 2009

Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Livingston - corporate example, Network Solutions, negative perseption issues related to their brand (google your organization’s name and “sucks&# and see what comes up!), Have you seen examples of your org changing? NWF - there is no failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2006

representing, for example, a person???s Now, all we need is the audio and flickr streams. problem decomposition with subfolders corresponding to major components (subprojects) of the project. Folders were clearly more than simply a means to one end: Organizing for later retrieval. Folders were information in their own right ???

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Have the highest increase in engagement through photo streaming sites: 41% on Instagram and 22% on Flickr. One in four donors identified photo streams as future methods for engaging with nonprofits. There are numerous of charities with examples in these types of networks. Gen X: Second most active social network users.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. choice and when it is not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Examples of Great Nonprofit Facebook Pages : Lance Armstrong Foundation. Including media consumption and interactions per post, as well as the number of fans who have hidden you from their stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

of personal learning, particularly in the example of following a tag stream. Now, we follow a tag stream and point people to del.icio.us and how different it is to acquire knowledge from watching a tag stream versus being given a list of urls. We also talked about the changes between web1.0 versus web2.0

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MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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JULY 9, 2008

I'm hoping that these examples are signs that people's beliefs about spirituality and religion will slowly make their way back from extremes to an integrated and middle way that recognizes, like the Global Oneness Project , we are all connected. Join us this month as we explore how faith makes or breaks political women around the world."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget? What are a few good examples and how easy are they to install?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. Tagging at public sites can give you a sense that you're adding to a shared stream of knowledge. At del.icio.us, or other such sites, tag a page ???robotics??? robotics???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

I found this in flickr tonight in Nancy's flickr stream. Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation." Time Originally uploaded by Choconancy1. It made me think about a post-it note from almost ten years ago! a person) actually participates in a community.

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