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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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

It will be my first international open source event, and it’s an amazingly interesting topic. I’ll be posting pics to flickr, for sure! { I’m really looking forward to it. So I am so excited to be going. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Zeega is a content curation tool that lets you collect video clips, sound bites, and images from sites with public media (like Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, and so on). Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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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 free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. This is a good sign that things are going in the right direction. I’ll keep you posted, for sure. Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. This is, of course, great news. Be Helpful.

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JUNE 18, 2007

or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us Be Helpful.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. Participatory. Collaborative. We want to rock the sector.).

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. What Is Web 2.0? Citizen journalism.

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JULY 29, 2013

Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Image: Parallel Session F , creative commons licensed on Flickr. Event social media open data NetSquared tsevent crowdfunding' What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? What is a social presentation ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Crowdsourcing the art selection process, and opening it up to the public. The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Image credit: Flickr opensourceway. Looking at deeper or wider can be more exciting than just new. I’d love to hear your ideas, experiences and additions to these remarks though and especially any examples you have!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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JULY 1, 2011

Flickr: Iwan Indrawan Technological change moves quickly! Treesaver is a new, open source web platform that uses HTML5 to create narrative experiences with text, words, and pictures. 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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? Be Helpful.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Too many people fear their website redesign or implementation projects, especially in the relatively unknown realm of Open Source CMS systems. Flickr - heathergm. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? . Website - [link].

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MARCH 23, 2012

Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. As its name implies, it is designed for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. And, yet another login and password. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by pt Last week, we kicked off the year with the NTEN Technology Leadership Series with John Kenyon. Allen will add an Open Source Software perspective to John's explanations of hardware, software, and networks. . Allen is a skilled communicator and facilitator in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. Past winners include Beth Kanter and Marnie Webb.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo: dannebrog It's more than easy for someone to spread the word -- it's STUPID easy. It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere. social media nancy schwartz 09NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. It's an open source free web meeting service. It isn't dumb dumb. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. I’m hoping that Spock ends up in the dead pool , but who knows. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source. The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.) Generation.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Flickr: juushika As I looked around for a halloween-themed picture to post here about renewing your NTEN membership this month , it occurred to me that if you've been around NTEN for any amount of time, chances are you've heard us talk about zombies or robots , or even zombie robots. Renew this month and get a FREE Webinar on us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The speakers will also give their opinions on why openness matters and what open APIs mean for the open source movement. While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, however, I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? You can read about the 'web office 2.0'

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MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. NTEN is People! Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . > DC 501 Tech Club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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