Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

flickr: valleygirl_tka A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. We know you speak the language, but most likely the rest of your organization doesn't – yet.

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JULY 1, 2011

Flickr: Iwan Indrawan Technological change moves quickly! After providing more than 600 schools with solar-paneled radios, students are able to tune into courses on subjects such as math and language. But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world. Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This particular training required multi-dimensional thinking on our toes because it was being done in another language with simultaneous translation. Here's peeling back the onion layer: People in the room are speaking in another language and you need to concentrate on the content that is being translated in the head phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

idea as a social media initiative; frame it as your initiative to support your boss’s goals, in your boss’s language. . Flickr photo credit: cbcastor by CC Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Make it about what your boss already wants: Don’t position your web 2.0 Make it about the audience: A good way to depersonalize the web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. Carie Lewis explained that the Humane Society worked often and early to build buy-in: “We wanted the upper management to speak the social language, we wanted to get them online. Sometimes our president tweets more than the organization!”. How does the leadership views social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2007

Via my flickr stream. Despite of my bad English language knowledge I want to translate the article of my blog to let you read what I wrote. Francesco Santini translated and published the widget fundraising case study on the Italian portal on fundraising. How cool is that? This a very useful guide, not only for the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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JANUARY 10, 2009

It speaks our language…WIP, FO, frogging, KAL, felting, intarsia, stash, etc. If you have a Flickr account, you can easily connect it to Ravelry for uploading images. It’s all there. The folks in the forums are the most helpful and friendly as I’ve seen on any site. The site is fast and intelligently built.

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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. The workshop was organized by colleague, Tatyana Kanzavelli.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2006

Last night we attended a performance of Sandglass and Sovanna Phum ( Here too)- the culmination of these two artists working together from different cultures, puppetry traditions , and language. I met Mongkol via his flickr photos and then found his blog. And just for giggles, I made a flickr slide show out them here.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. Become more aware of your own body language and facial expressions too – because you can telegraph disapproval non-verbally. I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. One of the modules is on meetings.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology , Sara Peralta. 13NTC Flickr Group Pictures. And How Can I Get One? Using Technology to Engage Youth , Jason Shim. Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for the Nonprofit Technology Sector , Jereme Bivins. Great Takeaways for Nonprofits Using Social Media , Michael Sola.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. Whenever I use the language, “Key Performance Indicator” or “KPI,” a hand or two goes up and asks,”What’s that?” The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Liquid Lucidity. Flickr Photo by MPR529. I always try to frame it in familiar language ??? Today we start NTEN's Be The Media journey where the community is the curriculum ! We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

I like how the jargon of the blogoshere is so poetic and filled with methaphoric language, but excuse me - what is a tag cloud? It lets you create a personal tag cloud of your delcious or flickr tags. You can also do the same with your flickr photos. In fact, there is a flickr group for extispicious. I couldn't resist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

NodeXL Created by a Marc Smith , a self-described “ Internet Sociologist ,&# 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Flickr Photo by Nielio. The language of computers, and Twitter, and what I assume is in Facebook, is also not common to me, and the lingo seems to change so quickly. Note from Beth: Innovation was the buzzword at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! out of my hands and make me get a small phone. It was a huge phone, like a CB radio.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology , Sara Peralta. 13NTC Flickr Group Pictures. Using Technology to Engage Youth , Birgit Pauli-Haack , NFN4Good.org. Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for the Nonprofit Technology Sector , Jereme Bivins. Great Takeaways for Nonprofits Using Social Media , Michael Sola.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

As I ran snapping my tourist photo of the poster for my learning journal (which I keep on Flickr ), Ansible mentioned that uploading Second Life snapshots on Flickr is controversal. It will be interesting to watch how this is all resolved and how many people turn into Flickr haters. I reserved my seat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

Flickr Photo by Wesley Fryer. In this language, I know who is deciding and what you are looking for from me. I’ve met them and I like both very much. The decision will ultimately be mine to make but I am interested in your perspective, how you feel each candidate would fit into the leadership team….”

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APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone.

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APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

During the camps, groups and leaders quickly self-identified and immersed themselves in solving humanitarian relief problems like coordinating relief workers and negotiating language barriers. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. They brainstormed basically anything you can imagine that aid workers might need. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. That photo is one of my most viewed flickr photos and resulted in a number of inquiries for work. The cover is from a remix mashup. How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Include examples that incorporate the sort of language you would like to be used in social media postings. This aspect of the policy will apply to anyone who maintains a social media presence on behalf of the organization. The policy should stipulate what accounts belong to the organization and processes to manage social media use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

This co-operation between museums and visitors bridges the gap between the professional language of the curator and the popular language of the museum visitor, and helps individuals see their personal meanings and perspectives in public collections. tools (like flickr Tag Fight. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

It was difficult to learn to the language at first! I've written about this program on my blog and posted photographs on flickr. The committee members of Community Forestry and Ecotourism projects were trained in basic computer skills and English language skills. Tell us about your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal. She has an incredible ability to take the most complex science and turn it around into language anyone can understand. Our website is a top search result for many keywords, all originating from Kate???s s blog entries. s a lot harder than it looks."

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Rebecca spent much of the summer before the show researching the women artists, translating curatorial knowledge into Wikipedia's markup language, creating articles, and expanding the existing ones to produce museum-quality contributions. The exhibition is now closed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Flickr photo by Lenz Grimmer. Flickr Photo by Dave Cross. Show example of Idealist tracking the different language versions and geographic distribution. I also keep fairly good track of the languages of visitors of our site. Other features I use frequently are: Languages, Geo Location, Geo Map Overlay, and Browser.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web. We're good at listening, responding, engaging, building community, and providing value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

Continue my Typing To Learn Khmer Blog A suggestion from the Globalization panel was to practice learning another language - so I got validation for my khmer studies. That is upload double photos into flickr, etc). I have avoided this because I don't like self-promotion. I'm still not sure I can bring this one to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

or just think about their current usage: "AddThis buttons can be found on hundreds of thousands of websites, and are currently viewed over 20 billion times a month by users all over the world, in over 20 languages.". See some of the reasons here. 4) Make Yourself Easy to Find on the Social Web.

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