Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. 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. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. If your expectations of social media are minimal, then only having a Facebook Page is enough. Social media is not free!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

One aspect of the campaign is a Starbucks Flickr petition. Supporters have uploaded photos of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian farmers." So far, 186 photos have been posted. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story. Photo Credit: " www.oxfamamerica.org/starbucks " by David Poe.

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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. The options for get-togethers can be anything from events to photo-ops, so long as it gives people a reason to show up and do something together. Photos: SusanChavez.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. 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. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I've made her Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups three times in the past couple weeks (photo left), and each time they've been freakalicious. One of my favorite cookbooks at the moment is The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone.

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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. Photo of me by the hubs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Photo by Pistachio. 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. Last night I couldn't sleep and followed the trail of links that Pistachio or rather PEAstachio left in a comment on the post about nonprofits and twitter.

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Forum One

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. Connie Chan from Yahoo! s " You In?

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. New Fans (Likes).

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NTEN

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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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. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. Photo courtesy of Flickr user lungstruck. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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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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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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NTEN

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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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. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Green Technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Flickr photo contest. Photo Credit: Photo of me answering your questions (: taken by my hubs. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Here are a few ideas: • A video book trailer, or video book review contest. The winner gets a Flip Video camera. book online promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. Flickr Supporters. So, I'm asking them donate to the cause in return for using my photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Flickr photo from: Just Me Robin Photos "Fried Green Tomatoes anyone?" Well, actually a line from the movie of the same name delivered by Kathy Bates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Christmas and Other Holidays: Gifts of Time on Jeri's Organizing & Decluttering News Green Giving: Experiential and the Gift of Time on Eco - Action Flickr photo credit: Sand Dollar uploaded by Bart Everson. Related blog posts: Give the Gift of Time Together This Holiday Season on Treehugging Family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Both my client and I were curious about what exactly was working (and what was not), so they gave me the green light to create these charts (everyone should be so lucky!). and ongoing reports of key purchases. Then I annotated the chart accordingly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 28, 2009

This year's winner was the Green Bay Packers. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com Flickr photo credit: Gingery Sweet Potato Soup uploaded by thebittenword.com Super Bowl donation philanthropy giving cause marketing Fans were asked to "click" their team to victory on the Campbell's site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2008

It's time to set those books about green living, social entrepreneurship, and nonprofit technology aside for a little while. Flickr Photo Credit: Father's Day Gift uploaded by Breibeest. Instead I might try a middle way: a 29-Day Giving to Others, Giving to Myself Challenge. giving activism balance

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

By day I'm a principal at Green Machine PR , a marketing and public relations firm that specializes in high tech and green tech. Flickr Photos from Jo Lee . - an amazing woman (and mother of two) who works in the nonprofit technology space - for all her work managing the project and making it a huge success.

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