Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Flickr Fan Art on a Typewrtr by CoCreator. I am a member of the Flickr Fan Art Group. So, it was actually fun to write this TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr." " It is ten tips for those who are new to Flickr to get the most out of it. (My True confessions.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2009

Flickr Photo: kohtzy Last weekend, I was lucky enough to speak at The Arc of the USA 's executive leadership conference. As usual, I did a session on social media , but they also let me trot out something new: Five Trends that Will Impact IT. The presentation includes lots of tech stuff, of course. So there you have it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Pearl Children Care Center I discovered Camera Rwanda's beautiful photo stream when I wrote about it on blogher last January. just posted an interview with her entitled " Camera Rwands: Storytelling using Flickr." Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This month, Forum One and Autodesk hosted a panel titled, "Social Media for Social Impact" during Social Media Week in San Francisco. described how status updates and Flickr photos were used to spread awareness of Yahoo!' Connie Chan from Yahoo! eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. The Greater Good Science Center defines resilience skills as being able to minimize the impact of stress which in turn helps us avoid burnout. This Harvard Business Review article, “ 5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work.” ” offers some good tips. Financial Footing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Worse is the impact of siloed organizations on nonprofit audiences – cuz really, how many emails can you get from the same organization before you go a little nuts? Treat your team like donors: report on impact. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Via my flickr stream. Here's the email message I received: I stumbled upon your slide show of beautiful photos of Cambodia. We will then be taking the website global--it will have a wide reach and have a profound impact on many students. My last trip to Cambodia, I photographed monks. I'm so honored.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Beth Kanter. This week, the post that got the most conversation was a playful and visual one. Using the photo above, I asked people to share their best social media advice as a fortune in a fortune cookie. Wendy Harman. Less brand, more impact.” Share and you will be rewarded.” Kristen Parrinello.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

more than 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. This is a “red carpet” event!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

over 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries worldwide submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. This is a “red carpet” event!

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. Flickr Pro account. " First Place Photo. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set. Flickr Pro. Flickr Pro. Charity Express will receive: Connect2give suite annual plan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

Over the last few years, I cut back on my donations because I felt like they were all over the place and not making much of an impact (especially when I give my little donation to an organization and I feel like they spend it by sending me pounds of direct mail). Flickr photo credit: Colored pencils by Alan Cleaver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. If people at work are triggering your stress and challenging your emotional intelligence, use these journal prompts to help you reflect: How is it impacting me physically, emotionally, and psychologically? It also helps you keep track of progress made towards goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. It’s great that I can follow all of the content (blogs, tweets, Flickr photos, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Survey respondents were asked to rank skills have the greatest impact on a their professional success in the position they currently hold. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In the most basic sense, online organizing gives figurative legs to impact and reach. Photo credit: Flickr jakubsteiner ). It even means that individuals and groups who thought they “were the only ones” before, are now able to find each other, work together, and do even more. Q: What makes a community?

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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. There have been efforts across the field to gather data about the impact and outlook for nonprofits and funders alike. This is an uncharted landscape for us all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. Tracking for Impact and Learning. Metrics for Movements.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

We need a name we can all orient around, that captures the idea: it isn’t about working on global initiatives per se, but is instead about ramping up efforts and scaling impact to effect, at least eventually, a greater world. Maybe “Scaled Efforts” or “Scaling Impact” “International Outreach” or something else – we need your ideas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. He urges nonprofit staff to consider the impact of self-care on your productivity (does it increase or not?), impact on your co-workers (does it create more stress for them?) This places a burden on other staff with the accompanying additional stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. There have been a lot of conversations about what funders can do to support nonprofits to scale impact. But I think what has really driven this is the continued impact of the prolonged economic instability. Doing More by Doing Less – guest post by David Greco. Less restrictive funding.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

Flickr: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology We're still catching our breath from the NTC earlier this month, but the nonprofit technology community is as active as ever this week! If you attended the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , our amazing photographer may have snapped your photo. Check out the campaign’s use of Flickr and Tumblr !

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Its photo story is extremely powerful and highly shareable. All of these videos create a lasting impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Flickr Photo by Tiffany.Ann.M. It was good to see how different people are aligning sector culture, systems, and incentives to encourage individuals and institutions to take the extra time to magnify their impact by closing triangles. Guest post by Scott Bechtler-Levin. We saw evidence of it in the networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Flickr Photo by Brittany Bush. You might want to treat yourself to copy our new book, “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” read up on all the tips and methods that we gleaned from interviewing hundreds of nonprofit professionals about their self-care routines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. If one thing became clear this morning, it’s that the passion from the corporate sector to create meaningful and positive impact in our society is growing, and rapidly at that. Guest post by Cindy Hallberlin. And she should know.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

To figure out how you can make an impact, try this exercise based on a similar one from Carol Lloyd's book Creating a Life Worth Living : 1. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com Flickr photo credit: American Flag, Navy Pier, Chicago by Belinda Hankins Miller. She is also the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Above all, don’t reach out to people who have been directly impacted by the disaster, or it will come across as tone deaf. If you’re accepting donations, show how the money is being spent with photos and videos. Be specific.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. A five-picture Flickr slideshow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Among other things on the webinar, we discussed some best practices for developing a proposal, such as: Align with the tracks and impact areas. The Conference workshops will be categorized into both tracks and impact areas this year. View the recording of the webinar here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Dear Beth: I want to compile a report for my Executive Director about the impact of our online organizing strategies. Flickr - to host photos from events we have attended and hosted. I get lots of email requests like this and can't answer all them or blog either. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. One effort to address this problem, in which I wish more funders would participate, is the Charting Impact initiative. Charting Impact is a strategic alliance among Independent Sector , BBB Wise Giving Alliance , and GuideStar. The questions are: 1.

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