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MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. " DemocracyInAction Green Grants - DemocracyInAction Green Empowers grants provide organizations with the Salsa platform for free. charitytuesday is your charity taking part on Tuesdays?

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MARCH 7, 2007

One aspect of the campaign is a Starbucks Flickr petition. For more information about Ethiopia's efforts to trademark its coffee names, check out Green LA Girl's posts about Ethiopia vs. Starbucks. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story. flickr petition coffee fair trade oxfam

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AUGUST 7, 2013

Flickr: photofarmer NTEN has worked hard over the years to reduce the carbon footprint of our annual conference. This year, we''re formalizing our efforts and rolling out a new sustainability plan to help us be even more effective in ''greening'' the NTC. And we need YOU, our wonderful community, to help!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

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. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides.

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MAY 7, 2012

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. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. Kroll suggests watching what your community is watching, i.e. take a look at Flickr statistics to get a sense of what people are interested in. Photos: SusanChavez.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? If I remember correctly, it was Robert Scoble who did it first and others took his cue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Finally, if they need to spend $50 for a premium Tumbler design or $25 a year for Flickr Pro, they have the green light to do so. Ten years ago these tools would have costs thousands of dollars and yet today nonprofits often struggle with getting approval for $10 premium tool.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2013

Image via Flickr user HowardLake. Email Marketing Green IT newsletters' TechSoup did its own email testing and found that image-based emails showed a significantly improved click rates over text-based emails. Additionally, check out this article on when to change your broadcast email tool.

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JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. As a consensus building process, participants used “sticky dot” voting to identify the most important metrics (green for partners; red for the movement as a whole). ” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 17, 2009

Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast , a show about creating work with impact, wants to answer them. Lara Galinsky, Echoing Green's Senior Vice President, and I will be discussing your questions. Flickr photo credit: Question Mark uploaded by Marco Bellucci. If so, send me you questions!

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Flickr: HowiePoon NTEN has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, in both membership and programming, and we have a few new free sessions you should take advantage of this month: Ask the Expert with Joe Green on Facebook and MySpace Causes (Tue, Aug 18) : Joe Green is the co-founder and President of Causes, the online application (..)

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FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

For inspiration, check out Good Mail Day's Flickr photo stream of people's creative correspondence creations. You could also give a pot and flower seeds like Diane MacEachern suggests in her post, Six Ways to Green Your Valentine's Day on Big Green Purse. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

described how status updates and Flickr photos were used to spread awareness of Yahoo!'s Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods. eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2008

In a recent blog post , Lara Galinsky of Echoing Green talks about how each new Echoing Green Fellow is asked to answer the question, "Why do you do what you do?" "It You can add your wdydwyd photo to the wdydwyd Flickr group , and join the wdydwyd Facebook group , or wdydwyd Ning group. Not very deep, but it's true.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

They have all kinds: cards that go in your printer, cards you can paint on with watercolors, photo frame cards, and "green" cards made of hemp, bamboo and recycled fiber. For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

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. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons. Telework and the Environment.

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DECEMBER 21, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. I am watching my Twitter stream and seeing a sea of green and that is pretty amazing. Read Susan Reynold 's statement. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Flickr: magnuscanis This week, NTEN members are busy sharing ideas and experience on a range of topics. If you're interested in green IT opportunities , TechSoup Global is hosting a free webinar that discusses ways to save on your energy bill, new equipment purchases and how to navigate Energy Star's new low carbon IT campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Seuss famously bet that he could write a children''s book [ Green Eggs and Ham ] using only 50 unique words. Flickr photo credits: Pickles in Skippy''s basket by walt eis ; d-in-baset by Aaron Weber ; Puss in Hannah Basket by Greengirl24 ; Toolie waits by Linda Tanner * I will be moving Have Fun, Do Good over to my website, brittbravo.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green. Natural Resource Defense Council has an article, Greening Your Business , which lists tips for making your business green like recycling, using copier and printer paper that is post-consumer and recycled, using Energy Star office equipment, and getting an energy audit.

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DECEMBER 30, 2007

My Flickr Photo from a visit to Freegeek in Portland, Oregon. The Service Source Network helps people with disabilities and has a Keep It Green program. For more information, check out the greenpeace guide to guide to green electronics and these green resources from TechSoup blog and MAR program.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr photo: shareski How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? My point is that real currency, the silver and green stuff we lug around, is about to get an upgrade. As I sat in the Grand Junction Colorado airport -- which is charming -- I had a conundrum: the contents of my wallet came to a grand total of 72 cents.*

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NTEN

APRIL 20, 2009

Flickr Photo: Green Moon We're less than a week away from the really big show. Despite the fact that I'm mortified to be Putting a Ring on It in front of you all, I'm anxious to get to SF and get things underway. I've missed you all over the last year! I can tell you're excited, too.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. Photo courtesy of Flickr user lungstruck. If this equipment has a six or seven year lifespan rather than three or four years, the environmental impact of this for even a fraction of the one billion plus computers now in use in the world will be immense.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I hope you'll add to the list: Change/Wire Dining for Women Ella Baker Center Echoing Green Genocide Intervention Network Global Fund for Women Global Voices' Rising Voices Google.org Idealist NetSquared NTEN People's Grocery Save Darfur Social Actions Spot.us Flickr photo credit: Photo of question mark in flowers uploaded by Michelle.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

A green themed party where guests can plant seeds to take home and grow. Flickr photo credit: Birthday Cake 08 uploaded by Anne Norman. children party gift green donation The details are available at www.QuakerKidsDoingGood.com. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. You can read more from Green America here. It's been info overload around here, but that's a good thing!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Flickr Photo by Green Moon Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. The latest agenda can be found here. They encourage anyone who wants to add a session or topic to do so!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. When we see the green arrows pointing up and the numbers look good, we might think — “they like me, they really like me.&# But you can’t really put that data into context and learn from it. Avoid this measurement as therapy trap.

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MARCH 16, 2009

SxSWNP Flickr Cred: wharman Peter Campbell changed web hosts and has some good advice about the process. Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Even better, the green laptops would match the video blogging kits that Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman brought over the month before I brought the same kits to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Green Technology. NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Pie Ranch is a Bay Area nonprofit that teaches urban youth about food and farming: "We have planted wheat for pie crusts and berries for filling, and are raising bees for honey, goats for milk and chickens for eggs on a 14-acre parcel above the historic Steele Ranch at Green Oaks Creek. Photo Credit: All for A Good Cause by Kellan on Flickr.

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