Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

During the Storymakers one month challenge, TechSoup hosts a series of educational webinars and interactive events meant to highlight content and tools to help social good organizations produce a one minute video, a short form Vine or Instagram video, or a five picture Flickr slideshow with some fabulous cash prizes up for grabs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Though, you’ll see in these images (just like on Facebook), that when you comment or interact with a friend’s post, you can then be interacting with people who aren’t in your circles. Note: I am connected directly with Debra, but not with Andy).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

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. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Flickr Photo from Lanier67. " In the comments, Weiksner clarified that Facebook Causes fits the "self-expression" model of interaction and incorporates competition to enhance engagement. Some rights reserved. I wrote a thinking outloud post wondering " How do Social Networks incorporate the ladder of engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Giving days are 24-hour online fundraising competitions that combine gamification and deep social interaction to bring communities together for local causes. I’m one of the PhilanthroTech bloggers posting here on the Groupon Grassroots blog as we prepare to head to the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival in March.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Flickr Photo by Canolais. Genocide Intervention Network used Salesforce , which has a robust contact management system, to keep everyone in the loop about interactions with major prospects. Cold calling or emailing isn’t as hard as you think when you share a common interest and your name is already recognized from online interaction.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Flickr: woodley wonderworks The second week of Member Appreciation Month is drawing to a close, but our appreciation for you, our Members, continues. Each day, our interactions with NTEN Members inspire and educate us about what's possible to achieve through hard work, dedication, collaboration, and vision.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Speak directly to your users and interact with them; they have amazing stories and experiences. It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. You can post YouTube videos to your blog posts and Flickr photos to your Upcoming.org event listings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. We are interacting, we are paying attention to each other, having a conversation. This subtle shift was applied to their social media and communications strategy. Stop pushing and leave time for interaction. Saying, this is more engaging.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

During the one-month challenge TechSoup will host a series of interactive trainings designed to help nonprofits produce a one-minute video or five-picture Flickr slideshow. provides training, resources, and inspiration to create and tell a compelling story. Don't Miss Our First Two Learning Sessions! Tuesday, January 31, 11:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. Free Flickr Pro Account Through TechSoup. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy. Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Flickr Photo by John Grocki. Who did I interact with? What success did I experience? What challenges did I endure? What did I learn today? About myself? About others? What do I plan to do — differently or the same — tomorrow? Anyone I need to update? Ask a question? Share feedback?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. If you take a look at their page you’ll notice that there are hundreds if not thousands of people interacting there (I’ve added an image to the right – notice the red box towards the bottom).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Interaction (are people sharing our content? We currently use a plethora of online tools to spread the word and talk to people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2016

Flickr photo by Mallix. From the first engagement action to the last thank you note, we see every interaction as a chance to reinforce your brand and your results. This isn’t just branding for branding’s sake—it’s about donor engagement.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Flickr: theirhistory Summer sun and vacation days haven''t slowed down the NTEN community! The folks at SXSW Interactive need to know! Check out the full details and learn how to enter on the SXSW Interactive scholarship page. Miss out on #GivingTuesday last year, but considering participating for 2014?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

But the real key is that social media gives you a way to interact with people (your supporters and people who are trying to learn about you) like never before. 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. Think about incentives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. And even better was to process the findings in real time interactions. Action #2: This session made me think about how we could try something more interactive with our recently completed grant seeker survey.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2014

Using IFTTT, you could actually take all user-generated Instagrams from the geographic locations of the walks/runs and funnel them into a Dropbox or Flickr account. From here, you can easily measure how successful your campaign was by both the quantity of interactions and the quality of interactions.

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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. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Citizen journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

This FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. My notes: People are using social media for social interaction and leaving what Eugene Eric Kim called "ant trails." How are they interacting? Who are the influencers?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

photo cred – Flickr: Creative Commons. Interactive Social Media fundraising ideas fundraising tips John Haydon social media for non profits' Once this option is selected you’ll notice a second level of commenting within your Page updates. Have you already selected these options for your Page? How’s it Working?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Combining the slideshow functionality of PowerPoint with the capability to create unique and interactive content curated from all corners of the web, Zeega allows you pull videos from YouTube, photos from Flickr, sound clips, and music from the cloud to create meaningful and engaging digital stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. At the time, we invited Internet thought-leaders to participate in an email list discussion, focusing on interactive tools. We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: W.D. If your organization is considering incorporating mobile giving into their online fundraising campaigns, Artez Interactive ''s free whitepaper on mobile fundraising may be a great resource on how to do it. Vanlue Fundraising tips, some new (and free!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. 2. What worked about the audience interaction activities face-to-face? Too many of the sessions had audience interaction that was hard to hear and experience online. Our session is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. The lesson: create environments where un-alike people can interact, sometimes at purposeful meetings, sometimes in the bathroom. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. When considering a launch party for Zoetica at SxSW interactive, we wanted it to be different from the party atmosphere that pervades the culture of the conference. Less of an agency and more of a change agent. We also wanted to make it meaningful.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Artez Interactive For Fun Did you miss Rob Cottingham's cartoon coverage of the conference? And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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. For those who could not attend and see Super Green in action, video from the meetup is available, courtesy of TechSoup’s own Interactive Producer Evonne Heyning, here.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

described how status updates and Flickr photos were used to spread awareness of Yahoo!'s The multiplicity of interactions. The social web has provided a plethora of ways for people to interact and share information. The interaction options are wider than ever. Connie Chan from Yahoo! s " You In? Time as currency.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. Geoff Livingston keeps the social media measurement conversation rolling with this great question about what to measure … Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box We launched the Zoetica Salon this week. We launched the Zoetica Salon this week. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) The original photo is on Flickr and caught the eye of an editor from Esquire Magazine who was looking for photos to illustrate a piece about wedding photos. We've been together for 29 nine years!

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

Flickr: Fernando Candeias Pundits love to declare radio dead. To date, Berg and Bohse have conducted dozens of interactive conversations with individuals from TechSoup, nPower, Gifts in Kind, GrantStation, IdeaEncore, Motion Picture and Television Fund, Emblem Health and many others. Television killed it. iTunes killed it harder.

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