Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! I was teaching Web1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration? kanter/beth5.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. Click here to view the video. 54 people joined the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Last week when I blogged that won the Creative Commons flickr photo contest, the prize I got was Lessig's on my answering machine. In today's email, J Wynia, shared with me a tool he created with the Flickr API that lets me search for interesting photos that I can remix or use and automatically generates the attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Lacking any programming skills to speak of, I've been looking at widgets and tools that put an easy interface to flickr that let you display photos. A reflection about participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

It is generated by www.deviousgelatin.com/montager using the flickr tag 'beth5.0'. Flickr Photo Remix Cards are all wonderful so I'm going to start blogging them!! Maybe one of the flickr widget badgets? This one is from Mike. I love the creativity and I'm learning a lot about remix tools. Ideas welcome!

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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

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? Bridge the generation gap. Raise their visibility internally with specific communication and development initiatives.

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Whole Whale

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They should answer questions the staff has about performance, give a 30k foot view of what happened, and generate insights about what’s working in a report. Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. With a mobile website ( create one for only $8 a month ) and a QR Code generator and reader, there are thousands of possible QR Code campaigns. So, what are they?

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NetWits

OCTOBER 2, 2009

It’s also designed to generate awareness and foster support so the world can be freed from cancer. While their efforts are focused on encouraging local participation in the physical sense they’ve also made it possible for people to participate online through social media using sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. The project presented a unique opportunity to discover and test the best mix of skills and support that would help develop the next generation of social sector leaders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

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. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. It is a must download!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The updates and first-hand accounts bring attention to a movement and generate more participation. Invite everyone to join the movement by sharing pictures, stories, and signs to spread your message (try Flickr or Tumblr ). Personalize It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

The chart was generated by a program called Swivel. I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Before, we asked people to upload their photo and tag it themselves, which meant they had to create a flickr account and know what ???tagging??? In using the API, everything was automatic, tagged, and uploaded without the user having to even touch flickr. We were also able to capture email addresses directly to our CRM this way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

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. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Dipity :: dipity.com. What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2012

If you look under my kitchen sink, you'll see that I have Ecover Automatic Dishwasher Tablets next to Comet, Seventh Generation Toilet Bowl Cleaner next to Windex, Planet Dish Soap next to Soft Scrub. Flickr photo credit: My Green Cleaning Kit by go_greener_oz Tweet I have a confession to make. I'm not a totally green cleaner.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

I picked up 2 Alice Starmore books: Fisherman's Sweaters: Twenty Exclusive Knitwear Designs for All Generations and The Celtic Collection: Twenty-Five Knitwear Designs for Men and Women. Brigid, one of the most sought-after patterns from the book (imaged borrowed from Flickr user chaika6 , I hope she doesn't mind).

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2012

Main Street, Canandaigua NY; Flickr: -AX- If you’ve ever met me, I’ve probably told you about how I grew up in a small town. But it’s the community itself, each of you out there participating, that do the work of maintaining the open and kind energy that keeps the conversation flowing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. offers a 90-minute webinar on blogging on WordPress.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. So what makes Flickr so useful? Now I always use Flickr. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Three generations of folks are using it. Okay, pop quiz. Where do you go?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

When developing your online presence, remember that you’re developing a community first, and generating site traffic is a by-product of that community. It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. A passionate user base is invaluable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. Hope you are too: More organizations doing more planning is Erik Anderson’s dream, to generate small victories and step closer to goal setting, risk-taking and moving the needle. Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts.

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flickr: blogtrepreneur. There also remains a generational difference, with only 37% of people over 65 using at least one social media site. Providing digital services in a networked way, working in collaboration to do together what cannot be done alone, is the natural evolution of technology use in nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. To generate ideas for questions and how to shape the conversation, the conference is using AllOurIdeas to query early childhood professionals in California for their questions. It also generates some statistics and visuals that allow you to easily cull the wisdom of the crowd.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. Check out their work at [link]. Download the report. Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

We also know that one of the largest growing segments the boomer generation. If you’re using Facebook pull in your Blog, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts so that you page fans can see where else you participate. Make sure you’re actively looking for ways to incorporate social media into your online strategy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Best Use of Animation — Join the Breakthrough Generation. The video Join the Breakthrough Generation from the organization Breakthrough utilizes animation (and celebrity) to a dynamic effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. After you select your desired chart format, use the Chart Chooser to generate a PowerPoint or Excel template.

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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. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. was generating at the time, have a look at the original series of NetSquared blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration?

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

But if your nonprofit values its intellectual property, use secondary services such as a privately hosted blog, a video site or a photo site like Flickr with strong intellectual property protection. Publishing updates and content on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter is a necessary action in today's social web.

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