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. Any gotchas?

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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. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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. Today, I happened to see HSUS that staffer Carrie Lewis posted a note on her profile and it showed up on my friends feed on Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

flickr: *saxon* Whether you’ll be there in person, or you’re participating online, we want you to take part in all the 2012 NTC buzz. On flickr Every year NTC attendees post their photos to flickr with the conference tag. Just search 12NTC on flickr to browse the conference stream and see what attendees are up to.

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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. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Once signed up, a message is sent to your Facebook News Feed letting all your friends know that you signed up for Jumo. There are fields to add your organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. Here’s how to add your organization: 1) Sign up for an account at Jumo.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Keep people connected to live video (like Livestream or Vimeo ), regular audio updates (like CinchCast or Audioboo ), or live feeds of text from a Twitter hashtag or an open chat like CoverItLive. Invite everyone to join the movement by sharing pictures, stories, and signs to spread your message (try Flickr or Tumblr ).

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

UC Berkeley talked about a badge that donors can post to their Facebook pages after making a gift ("I Feed The Bears"). Very few speakers or attendees reported using these tools for fundraising, though.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

on Twitter in a just a couple of taps, is visually compelling, has a social component, integrates your Twitter feed, and is compatible with Twitter’s Official Apps, HootSuite and TweetDeck: Mother’s Against Drunk Driving on yfrog :: yfrog.com/user/MADDOnline/profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. It is also a good idea to take some time every few months to review and organize. The number of feeds in your reader can grow like weeds and new sources come along that are worth following. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. DELIVER ON TWITTER FEED]. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. These have become a wonderful collection of small steps, easy actions that can be taken after the training to immediately apply learning and improve practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! . Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit. While Allan has been in Vietnam celebrating the lunar New Year and eating exotic foods, he has still managed to get online, play with Pipes, and IM me about it.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2012

flickr: reid. Highlights include Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager at Feeding America , along with Melissa Roberts & Drew Bearn from Free Range Studios talking with David J Neff of Lights. Just because the 12NTC is sold out doesn't mean that you can't be a part of it. about nonprofits & innovation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. 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. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Flickr Photo by Salendron. Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools. Follow along and connect with the community! Follow LearnAsOne on Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

Twitter, Facebook, Flickr) I love "reading" my feed of stories told through images each day The Instagram community has grown quickly. I did and I *love* it. I love how simple it is to use I love how good it makes my photos look I love how easy it is to share images across networks (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

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. So, far, it doesn’t show any posts from them but you can see how their profile looks and that their Buzz feed comes into the profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nutmeg66. After college, when I began to use a feed reader , my listening became more routine. If you are listening already, I encourage you to step it up: refine your key words, add a new source, or move your e-mail alerts to a feed reader. This started when I was in high school. You are listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. Nonprofits are built to take ownership of the tasks that lead to the change we are trying to bring about — the tasks of feeding people or providing job training … And, sure, those tasks need to get done. Is that a Zen graffiti artist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Photo in Flickr. He feed all the text of an entire blog to generate a tag cloud. The Go Big Always blog written by Sam Lawrence who is the CMO of Jive Software has been playing with Many Eyes , a visualization toolset from IBM. His first list was social media thought leaders, but it was all guys.

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

Flickr: Fernando Candeias Pundits love to declare radio dead. Berg and Bohse attended the NTEN Conference for the first time as Media, and recorded a live show from the conference , speaking to companies such as Google, Convio, Feeding America and more. Television killed it. iTunes killed it harder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. But it takes content: you’ve got to feed those media platforms and seed those conversations. Relevant, compelling content attracts new advocates to your cause and deepens relationships with constituents, all without relying on a reporter to relay your message.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

For example, the friends of the Facebook users who’ve posted these photos of rabbits will see a story in their News Feed, exposing them to the mission of the National Wildlife Federation. photo cred – Flickr: Creative Commons. Have you already selected these options for your Page? How’s it Working?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Screenshot in flickr with url to blog post or videoblog post. Send your flickr screenshot to groups, contacts. RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. -Tag your video blog post into del.icio.us - forward to your del.icio.us. email to list of friends.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

flickr photo: woodleywonderworks November is member appreciation month, and we set today aside specifically to thank our amazing NTEN members, and to help them celebrate each other. If you're on Twitter, just thank your favorite NTEN member(s) and include #ntenthanks in your update. Or, send a shout out on our Facebook wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. This tool allows you to shared today, that allows you to put all of your Google Alert feeds (which many of use get by email) into a dashboard. We launched the Zoetica Salon this week. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. The Importance of Benchmarking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

This system feeds back in on itself -- people who see praise become repeat supporters because they've been thanked publicly and been given attention they didn't expect. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! Leverage the inspiring acts to try to create more good acts. by sunshinecity.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ). Libraries have access to information, engagement, and opportunity – it’s just a matter of setting sail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). I might spend a few minutes brainstorming on flickr by typing in combinations of keywords related to ideas to come up with a metaphor. Why or why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

For efficiency, I've experimented and tried some of the following but haven't found great solutions Flickr to Facebook - Let's me auto publish my flickr photos, but has some problems. I've tried two other Flickr to Facebook apps but they are glitchy and also don't integrate with your Facebook photos album.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Flickr Photo by Jacques de Goldfiem Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last weekend devastating five regions. In addition to donating, I've also put the fundraising widget in my side bar, sent tweets out to my network on Twitter, distributed it in my friend feed , posted it on my Facebook profile and added to Flickr. Campaign for Burma.

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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. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. What Is Web 2.0? To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. Podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. news or web feeds ???? Consuming Reading Feeds.

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