Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

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. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. You went to every corner of the earth to recruit donors, vendors, sponsors, volunteers, attendees, etc. You may justify it by coming up with excuses like that you are only working for a few minutes, or that the organization really needs your help. 7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. In fact, we (that is, we organizations) kind of love them. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

This year, we received more than 135 total submissions from social benefit organizations from far and wide! First up are our awards selected by our panel of judges , hard-working digital storytelling experts who flexed their skills to pick strong stories to receive award donations from our sponsors. Flickr Pro account.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The infrastructure that supports new innovations and social enterprise requires capacity, just like any other organization. After all, the potential to scale one entrepreneur or organization’s new application is hugely tied to the numbers of organizations and communities that can adopt it and spread it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

This organization creates special, therapeutic experiences for children through riding horses. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Honorable Mentions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. While each of these channels has their own mechanisms and conventions for using tags the primary function of those tags remains the same - organizing content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Organization: National Wildlife Federation. Organization Size: 400 employees. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. There is a long history of charity balls, in the early years organized by the "Ladies Auxiliary" and chronicled in the society pages of major newspapers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

The event is sponsored by Microsoft and organized by TechSoup Global , WorldLoop , and Mico E-Waste Solutions. Image: Beanhammer (Flickr Creative Commons). Africa now has more mobile phone users than either the U.S. or European Union or Latin America. This meeting will be at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Flickr: Scott Beale Biking to work last week was like riding through that town in the Andromeda Strain: t here were no other commuters, no car exhaust to cough on while waiting at lights. Does your organization struggle with long lines at their events? Until October 31st, sign up to receive 15 months of service for just $120!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and as part of Civil Society 2.0. This year during Ramadan, Tunisia Telecom launched an initiative to support 14 charity organizations. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2010

Flickr Photo: Paraflyer. You can enter up to four (4) separate taglines, one for each of the award program's categories: your organization's tagline; a tagline for any program operated by your organization; a tagline for a fundraising campaign; and a tagline for any special event your organization produces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Today, I'm participating in a Day of Service along with almost 200 conference participants at two of their partner sites, the Capital Area Food Bank and Friendship Public Charter School - both organizations address hunger and poverty issues. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. There are four classic storylines that perform really well with nonprofit crowdfunding: Overcoming the monster – Similar to James Bond, Batman, or the Avengers, you can show your organization overcoming a villain or some form of adversity. They raised $20,000 with this storyline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

Last August, I was invited organizers of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit to give a keynote and teach Web2.0 I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Is the story meant to appeal to those that might benefit from your organization’s services? Like your organization, Vázquez suggests that your digital story have a stated goal or mission statement. Having a stated mission for your digital story can serve as central organizing element.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Flickr Photo by Nielio. Through a recent research project, we learned that nonprofits are innovating in subtle but remarkable ways, and we believe their success is replicable for other organizations. The organization’s social media presence became like a snowball gathering mass. I told her to go for it.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Organizations are empowering youth to develop their own mobile apps to solve problems at their schools, in their communities, and to help the greater good. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Apps Made by Youth.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

NTEN Members are our heroes (Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Don't miss the ICT4G one-day conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by NTEN member organization Catholic Relief Services. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Read my Flickr Story About Leng Sopharath, an orphan being sponsored for college by the Sharing Foundation I've been a board member of the Sharing Foundation for the last three years and volunteer several years before that. The Sharing Foundation is one of five very worthy grassroots organizations doing social change work.

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MAY 11, 2011

Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy. With a bit of savvy planning, road-trips can be an innovative vehicle to align with your organization’s goals. Diverse Goals. Raising funds.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good. " Let go and share -- with your stakeholders, your clients, your fellow organizations. Participatory. Collaborative.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. In contest news, NTEN member organization ZeroDivide has launched a great contest that combines poetry, social media, and good causes: the ZD Technology Haiku Contest !

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APRIL 9, 2009

Flickr Photo by Green Moon Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. Penguin Day SF is organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet, CiviCRM, and Chicago Technology Cooperative, and generously sponsored by Google. The latest agenda can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

That said, there are wonderful organizations working with State Governments to improve literacy and reading levels across the country such as Pratham and the Akshara Foundation and much progress has been made. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr. Scribd : Uploading our books frequently so that they can be read by more people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

In April, 2009, we celebrated reaching 200 million users and we designated 16 nonprofits to receive the proceeds from virtual gifts. The organizations said that the most valuable part for them was that it helped increased the number of Fans who joined their pages. More of my photos and videos on Flickr.

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NTEN

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. Nonprofit organizations and foundations are encouraged to submit their videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

flickr: Beach650 Most days, we're hiding from the rain in our Portland, OR office. December 14 - 15 in Washington, DC : The ASAE Technology Conference & Expo features various Technology Idea Labs, one of which will be presented by Holly on day one of the conference, Create Your Organization's Social Media Strategy Map.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. Lorretta's company works in the area of training and organizational development - driven by her passion for exploring how organizations learn and create value. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter

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JULY 31, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. I agree with her points: Causes facilitates the spread of your organization's message. Allison points out the numbers for America's Giving Challenge on Facebook sponsored by the Case Foundation. They should be doing more to help organizations understand how to take advantage of it.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations.

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