Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

They aren’t cluttering Pinterest with boring photos and seemingly endless marketing pitches. e-Newsletter. Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Chapter 1 Websites, E-newsletters, and “Donate Now” Campaigns. The Importance of the E-newsletter. How to Launch an E-newsletter. Eleven E-newsletter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven E-newsletter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Five Ways to Build Your E-newsletter List. Getting Started with Video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. Social media is not free! You need a good avatar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

e-Newsletter. Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. Note that there is a link to the blog post in the pin and that clicking the photo. Step Two :: Pin It!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Share Stories from the Field.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits. So what can nonprofits do with Flickr? It gives you search engine mojo – because all the Flickr goodness is indexed heavily. It brings in new people who first hear about you through a funny (viral) photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. Your photos should not only resonate with your audience, it should tell a story, not be copyrighted, and be a decent photo (not blurry or poorly composed). You can take your own photos or use stock photography. Don’t forget to add your URL or logo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. In print newsletters. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they? To help jumpstart your creativity, here are 22 ideas to ponder: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. Subscribe to E-newsletter and Text Alert Functionality. Include Social Media Icons or Graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Pitch to Your Website, E-newsletter, Blog, and Print Materials. This new page should then be linked near the e-newsletter subscribe option on your website and blog. page in your e-newsletter (80 percent of new group text subscribers come from email lists!) Add a “Subscribe to Receive Text Alerts!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

e-Newsletter. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Add the Google+ icon to your website, blog, and e-newsletter! Please note that these best practices will be a work in progress and updated regularly. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

e-Newsletter. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Add the Google+ icon to your website, blog, and e-newsletter! UPDATED 2/26/12: Please note that the best practices listed below are a work in progress and are updated regularly. Powerful stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

e-Newsletter. Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. Note that there is a link to the blog post in the pin and that clicking the photo. Step Two :: Pin It!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It’s important to have a place that you can link to for more information and for follow-up, instead of sharing news or updates only in a tweet or facebook message, and especially if it is just in an email newsletter. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). Have suggestions for blogs that should be added? Just let me know!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Let’s say you want to improve engagement with stakeholders and your KPI is an increase in the number of comments on your social platforms. Another interesting find was the overwhelming use of newsletters and email correspondence as a means of communicating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Give them a name, find a photo of them on a stock photography site and flesh out their biographical details. We sometimes hear our clients reference their user stories in their day-to-day work like “well, this month’s newsletter is more for Josh or Sally than Maurice.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tracy O Every September, our e-Newsletter focuses on fundraising. If we run your contribution in the newsletter, we'll give you a free pass to one of our fabulous webinars (not to mention the attention of thousands of nptechies). (A Doing anything cool and innovative? Sticking to the tried and true?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. I like this resource for maps, flags, and people photos. I use the advanced search feature.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Newsletter subscriber numbers are not growing. Example contextual report may look like this: We are seeing the most interest around content of this type/topic and hope to share more content like that in the newsletter to spur interest. —– Photo credit: richardjingram on Flickr.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. There's even a bacon bra on Flickr, but you'll have to search for that yourself. Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. Yeah, you kinda have to see it in action to understand. We're not sure if it's helpful, but it is really cool looking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Instead, I was told that they do have a twice-yearly print newsletter, the next issue coming in a few months but they'd be pleased to send me the last one. Flickr photo: al binami , View CC license This article was originally posted on Getting Attention at [link] by Nancy Schwartz: Nancy E. But there's no e-news!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

I remember a hot consulting topic was how to get your database off those 3x5 cards into an excel spreadsheet or how to mail merge in Outlook to send out an e-newsletter. . Michaela Hackner , a talented photographer, was on hand to document the Day of Service on Flickr. Photos: Lydia Mann - Flickr.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

NWF - greenhour.org so we share it with people in a newsletter and then see activity in a blog - we can’t see that they really did it in their home, it is hard to measure, but we are still seeing what seems to be real actions - don’t be afraid to ask! but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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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

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages.

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