Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

from my flickr photo stream Susan Tenby from TechSoup gave a presentation for a workshop called Virtual Games/Virtual Worlds during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice. Anil Dash , of Sixapart , was one of the speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Flickr: Alexdecalvelo SXSW Interactive is offering 5 scholarships to attend the 2012 conference. The conference boasts five days of special programs showcasing the best new websites, digital projects, wireless applications, video games, and startup ideas the community has to offer. Applications are due August 26th, at 11:59 PM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. At a time when many of our organizations lack the capacity and resources to fully achieve our visions, we need to involve new players in the game. Guest post by Cindy Hallberlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. It is especially hard given the blame game culture that exists in most workplaces and work relationships. “I made a mistake.&# Those are hard words for some people to utter when there has been a screw up and they’re responsible for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

The afternoon was devoted to doing the game. So, while the groups were in discussion, I uploaded some photographs into flickr and put in several tweets. And wanted to show them that photosharing was about having a conversation around photos. and explore the benefits and challenges. We had time. and it was great.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Turns out these games aren't only compelling to people who are approaching hour 4 with a ten year old in the car. Users of Google Earth, Google, and Flickr (among others) are using these applications as virtual game boards for joyrides around the world. Flickr content gets pulled into memory games.

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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 says fundraiser Kevin Game. Sobell House encourages its supporters to upload their photos and link them into the charity???s Harley Davidson???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

The session about " Driving Fanatic User Engagement and Addictive Retention " was a fascinating overview of game apps on Facebook - the communities, metrics, and how they drive engagement. I asked if there were apps on Facebook that might fall in the category of games for change? PhotoPhlow Other conference coverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2007

My Flickr Stream. You click on street view and you can see 360 photo of the street. I'm reminded about what Jerry from Electronic Sheep said at the 2006 Games for Change Conference about virtual worlds as a platform. Pretty cool new feature from Google Maps - street view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. The game has a strong communications lens. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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MARCH 30, 2007

Let’s play a game. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. The games take the game I posed in the beginning (Tag this image!) The games on the website at my museum are old.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The Austin Game Developers Conference is finishing up, and from it comes Gamasutra's intriguing account of the session on Engaging and Empowering Community Influencers. As this evolution progresses, it may be worthwhile for museums to turn to gaming and consider the ways that game designers treat their players. around gameplay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. Disaster giving is not a zero-sum game. Cover Photo Credit: Dan Ridley-Ellis. Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” ” A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say? Take a deep breath.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Are you considering a photo or video campaign for your organization? If you have ever asked your members to post photos on Facebook or asked for stories from your clients, you have tasted the abundance that user-generated content (UGC) can bring to your organization. Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: zadro. All campaigns are, in essence, a numbers game. P.S. - Check out these really cool 3D photos from Zadro on Flickr. Beth Kanter and NTEN have spent almost a whole year working on the We Are Media project, and we've learned a few important things. Or, you can build your own glasses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Also see the Top Ten Flickr API Hacks and Top Ten Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo by Stitch. They also warned against having social media be one person's responsibility or that it is a younger person's game. Photo by SamDiablo The Tire: Social media forms at the edges of the company. Flickr Photo by MR+G. Flickr Photo by Colmmacc. How can I make my campaigns work?

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Check out Ace of Cupcakes' photos of dog-related cupcakes they made for a fundraiser, and these Flickr photos of 100+ cupcakes a woman baked to benefit the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. Photo from my cupcake tasting party a few years ago. The event's website, www.rspcacupcakeday.com.au

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers and Tweets are NOT the end game, rather the tools to achieve strategic goals! We were in agreement that social media tools exist to achieve the strategic goals of an organization, not the other way around.

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JULY 27, 2007

Thirty-two "weeks" of events were condensed into the 10-week game, and each week, both in-game characters and real people--players all over the world--documented life in the new reality and swapped stories, solutions, and possibilities for survival. blogs, YouTube, Flickr, and more--to share content. learn from WWO?

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Flickr Photo: Lawrence OP A couple of years ago, I talked to Ed Granger-Happ about his philosophy for running the IT shop at Save the Children. He told me he was always trying to find the next innovation that would help make the field staff more efficient, or would deliver better services to the people they served.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. site that has photos, etc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Flickr Photo by Jungle Boy. This is reminding me of the Digital Natives project that I first heard about at Games For Change and someone mentioned this past weekend at podcamp. Teach42 has captured a hilarious cartoon about digital natives, a term coined by Marc Prensky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

As I ran snapping my tourist photo of the poster for my learning journal (which I keep on Flickr ), Ansible mentioned that uploading Second Life snapshots on Flickr is controversal. So, perhaps my photos won't be censored from the public search. I reserved my seat. He pointed me to this Wired article.

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JUNE 22, 2006

Ghana game. I found the site through the blog, It's Getting Hot In Here: Dispatches from the Global Youth Climate Movement Photos via Aenneken's photo stream on Flickr. It is 7:49 AM in California right now, and there are 7 people in our living room watching the US v. Don't tell anyone, but I'm rooting for Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." I bet if one searched flicker you might come up with some more photos to add. Do you have a NpTech photo to caption and share? Check this out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Lynetter Flickr. This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. " I'm thinking about Clive Thompson's session at the Games for Change Conference. I didn't capture his quote on the video, but he was talking about writing a book about games. Is that quote the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

My Flickr Set: RootsCamp SL Machimina Session. The article provides a good primer and illustrates various genres of machinima created in different gaming environments. " In the guy in the gray shirt is Paul Marino from the Academy of Machinima and Moo Money from Alt-Zoom studios.

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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." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Full report here )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " Dr. Mizuko described some findings in their research about informal learning and using games, even simple games like card trading games. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I'd use the social media game as culminating activity. I'd include the implementation/metrics at the end or as an extension of the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). A couple of personal highlights of the sessions: Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an awesome photographer who gave us great tips on improving our photos. They key takeaway for me is that photos without a story in them are less powerful. Two awesome parties.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

As a result, I put together my perspective on this game changing technology for arts and cultural organizations. photo credit: Flickr. As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers. How can these themes make a positive impact on the local museum or symphony? Are the same trends applicable?

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