AFP Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

Flickr for non-profits – 8 lessons learned | Social Media 4 Good: "I have been using Flickr for about two years to increase visibility of the work of Red Cross Red Crescent. Today, I’d like to share some of the lessons I’ve learned.Why Flickr?I I believe that most non-profits spend too much time preaching to the choir.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Today, I'm co-hosting an online event on TechSoup about Flickr with Heather Camp, Flickr Community Manager. I just learned something really important from colleague Michaela Hackner about uploading. Ask questions, share your learning, and learn from others. I love online discussions with a mix of experience.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Filed under flickr. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Filed under flickr. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Bookmark the permalink.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. 501tech miami If you're not in the New York City area, you can always join your local 501 Tech Club for ongoing learning opportunities. The best part about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. If I made a mistake, I admit it and try to learn from it. Carol Dweck , a psychologist at Standford, has spent decades demonstrating that one of the crucial ingredients of successful education is the ability to learn from mistakes. “Unfortunately, children are often taught the exact opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. If you want to convert donors online and inspire people to align themselves with your cause, invest time in learning how to write great copy, or even hire an expert to do it for you. Joanna Wiebe’s Copy Hacker e-book series is great for learning how to write web copy. Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. This is a terrific write up of the session I presented on “ Learning in Public “ Bridge Building or Trust Busting – a Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Some of the findings about Learning in Public? – Guest post by Stefan Lanfer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Vikki Spruill, Ocean Conservancy 's President and CEO and members of her communications team, Laura Burton Capps, and Dove Coggeshall about their recent experiments and learning on Facebook. David Armano describes this process as " Listen, Learn, and Adapt."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Marnie Webb asks a great question: Wonder what flickr has to do with nonprofits? Or maybe the question should be what can nonprofits do with flickr as answered in the comments. Nonprofits could use flickr to document and share a process with colleagues or staff in a remote office, similar to how these educators are using flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Click to Flickr Photos Tagged with 07ntc in A Slide Show Presentation. I got asked this question several times during various presentations/panels at I was on at the NTC, including the Flickr Affnity Group session on Wednesday. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Because research reveals that many Americans continue to know little about reform but their opinion about it improves dramatically after learning more, we decided a blog carnival highlighting facts and personal story would be an ideal tool in our campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Touching A Starfish at Monterey Bay Aquarium : Source Flickr Photo by Beth. What better way to learn about a starfish than to pick up and hold it in your hands. One of the key takeaways was the importance of hands-on learning through pilots and careful experimentation. The kids loved, especially the hands-on exhibits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. View the Screencast here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.” 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. Give them retweetable content ! Let them be activists for your organization and your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2012

Next, the webinar highlights the need to create a video and digital photography library and demonstrates how to use Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker to create videos and slideshows for YouTube and Flickr. Related Link: Social Media for Social Good: Lessons Learned from Nonprofits in Southeast Asia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006. s a changemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

It is generated by www.deviousgelatin.com/montager using the flickr tag 'beth5.0'. Flickr Photo Remix Cards are all wonderful so I'm going to start blogging them!! I love the creativity and I'm learning a lot about remix tools. Maybe one of the flickr widget badgets? This one is from Mike. Ideas welcome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listen Learn Adapt: The Secret To Nonprofit Social Media Success View more presentations from kanter. These is a rough cut where I've riffed on some of the ideas in David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " and extended them to nonprofits and social media. What does learning actually mean?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you don’t have a good image, search Flickr Creative Commons and free stock photo sites for something that will enhance your story. Visit Give Lively to learn more at givelively.org. Connect Your Cause to Current Events News stories and current events are driving donations to nonprofits more than ever thanks to social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2008

Beth's Flickr Stream. What have you learned about using Friendfeed efficiently? Jonathon Colman set up a FriendFeed Room for NpTech and I designed a quick experiment in sharing resources via FriendFeed about FriendFeed. If you want to participate, here's how. More than 40 folks have joined so far.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2011

We didn’t get discouraged; we learned from our mistakes and next time came back even stronger.”. I also need specific quotes on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, blogging, and mobile technology (mobile websites, group texting, text-to-give). We’ve done so many things in social media that flopped.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). So maybe this isn't "LOC Rocks Flickr."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

I told them Nick could answer the questions they had about the flickr photo set he put together. What is the food in the first flickr photo? Is hard is it to learn how to write Gung Hay Fat Choy? These six-year olds were amazed that we could do that with a computer and very impressed that I knew someone in Hong Kong.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. Kindergarten used to be less about academics and more about the socialization kids need to survive in school. Things have changed – don't get me started, my daughter is in kindergarten – but the socialization part is still there. One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I met JD Lasica and in a jet-lagged state couldn't remember his name as I loaded his photo into my flickr account. During the edublogging session, he mentioned the new Learning Center at OurMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The Accelerated Millennial Manager ” by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt of The Learning Café is a summary of a research survey from 2011 through 2013 of 400 millennial managers, their managers, peer managers, team members, HR, and business leaders. Constantly double-check your assumptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. One the technique they suggest to help you learn how to shift from a negative mindset to a more positive outlook which can lead to success. These factors include: Culture of learning. Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee I declared that resilience was one of my themes for the new year.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2010

Topics include Facebook and Facebook Apps, Twitter and Twitter Apps, YouTube, Flickr, Animoto, LinkedIn, FourSquare, mobile technology, blogging on WordPress, as well as online fundraising and e-newsletters. Webinars are currently scheduled through the end of July: View Webinar Schedule. She also created and writes exclusively for this blog.

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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. Learnings from Google Summers of Code. If you're going to be in town on the Saturday before the NTC, it will be a great opportunity to start learning! The latest agenda can be found here. and Drupal.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2012

It makes me feel like I’m giving of myself and still giving “something” But, one thing I’ve learned through the process is that I actually end up spending at least as much money and certainly a ton of time putting those gifts together. Photo: Flickr gazeronly.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2012

flickr: *saxon* Whether you’ll be there in person, or you’re participating online, we want you to take part in all the 2012 NTC buzz. Learn more about how to hack your conference. On flickr Every year NTC attendees post their photos to flickr with the conference tag. How is this related to flickr, you ask?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This list will be updated monthly as we all learn how to better use Pinterest. Be sure to add a price to your pin description so that a price banner appears on your pin: Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. e-Newsletter. Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage.

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