Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

They also plan to utilize Flickr to highlight photos of Purpose Prize winners making a difference in their communities, which will tie in nicely with their YouTube Channel. Coate said: “Another successful outlet is spreading the word through listservs, blogs, and organizational newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside. How will the CoP members interact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. Flickr Photos from Jo Lee I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting. Despite working with George for over a year, we've never met in person.) So, how does it feel to be acknowledged like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've accumulated more LinkedIn contacts than flickr contacts ). I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 One of the key points is listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Angelo grabbed flickr photos that were uploaded in real-time to add to the blog. Flickr tag: [link]. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki. IRC had two channels, one for transcription and one for the "backchannel" chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. Flickr Farm. That's what I use and why I use it).

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Museum 2.0

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. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art. And it's not just about recall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. Look backward. Ask what if?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one). He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. I keep coming back to damn virtual flip chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. Flickr is a web application that allows anyone to share and organize photographs online. Flickr is fairly easy to use, the basics can be found here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Consider what happened when the Library of Congress put some of their photo collections on Flickr. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. The first is to put the museum content in a venue that does have mass participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "by" License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

photo by flickr user michale , licensed with CC " BY " I arrived back from the UK only to jump into a car and drive out to Western, MA for a meeting to present an evaluation report I've been working on a for a client. The listserves are hopping with this news. Blog reactions here , here , here , here , here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. " Photo from Ali Lowndes on flickr She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?"

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