Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. The flickr pool of photos is here. Today, I happened to see HSUS that staffer Carrie Lewis posted a note on her profile and it showed up on my friends feed on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

It is illegal to buy, sell, or trade mobile phone numbers, unlike e-mail and snail mail addresses. embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. As a result, it takes time to build a list, so the sooner you start, the better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

2) ATTN Donors: Have you ever donated to a nonprofit organization through your cell phone? [ [link] ]. Which social networking sites does your organization have an “official&# presence/profile on? 9% Flickr. [ [link] ]. 39% Yes… it’s in the works. 22% Yes… but we have no idea where to begin. 25% Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2014

Connect your Facebook to your Twitter if you want IFTTT to change your Twitter profile picture every time you change your Facebook profile picture. Connect the forecast to your cell phone you want IFTTT to text you every time the weather in your area drops below 40 degrees. So what does this have to do with nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 13, 2009

Cross-posted from The Extraordinaries: On-Demand Volunteerism by Phone. There would probably need to be a way that I could click a button on my profile that which would let an organization know when I'm available/Not available to help. Would a service like this be helpful for nonprofits?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

" We took folks through the steps required to raise the profile of an organization using Facebook Pages. If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. But Michaela's favorite Flickr app is Flickr Tab.

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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. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. Fundraising 2.0

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. Not to mention all the personal updates that were happening through folks' Facebook profiles, Twitter, and personal blogs.)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2011

Typical interactions that we’ve tracked in include: meetings, phone calls, event attendance, associations/relationships, and preferences. Microsoft has an Outlook Social Connector that pulls in the same type of social profile information. Photo Credit: Flickr, Laineys Repertoire. Live and breathe in Outlook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I joined LinkedIn in 2004, but I only recently actually completed my profile and given some attention to adding people to my network which now has what one friend say "a crap load of contacts." She had set as a New Year's Resolution to complete her LinkedIn profile. Do you really want to be friends with everyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I'm going to try this: Put an auto responder on your email telling people that due to email volume and deadlines you only read and respond to email between 11-12 and 4-5 and if it is urgent to call you on your mobile phone. Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr. In your title, include keywords.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2007

Your emails, faxes, phone calls, postcards, and even in-person visits to Starbucks added strength to the call of Ethiopian farmers and brought global attention to this issue." They created a Flickr petition where they asked people to post a photo of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian coffee farmers."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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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. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 I’m hoping that Spock ends up in the dead pool , but who knows. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo. tool to jump in. What a concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

I've been promoter of the idea of "jump in as individual first" although there are some tensions there -- Eric Eckle pointed out in a recent discussion about Facebook's policy of not allowing organizations to set up profiles, only individuals. See Free Ranger Rick). These costs are real, but accepted. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?" But are these potential interactions safe?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2015

Flickr Image: Myles Grant. When I want to call someone (yes I still use the phone – human contact is important to professional networking ), I waste time hunting down a phone number. So, if you get a phone call, you will know who it is, because Evercontact stored it from a previous email exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Link to Your Social Networking Profiles. Link to your Facebook Page, Twitter Profile, YouTube Channel, Flickr Photostream, etc. If your nonprofit is utilizing text-to-give technology, you should include “Text-to-Give Now” mobile pages that allow donors to simply enter their phone number to make a donation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And it’s not just what we do, because you can send a thank-you letter, or you can send, you know, make a phone call, but it’s how we do it. So what you want to do is write down kind of what would be the equivalent of a bullet-pointed profile, a Yelp profile. So yeah, part of it is keeping really good profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

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. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu Twibbon :: twibbon.com. Tweriod :: tweriod.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

There are two reasons entertainment venues charge less when visitors buy in advance: they are happy to lock in your dollars, and advance ticket processing requires fewer expensive humans at phones or cash registers. I'm a free member of Flickr, LinkedIn, and a variety of other websites. Premium features.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). There are well over 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, of a population of some 7.1 The number of cell phone users is expected to exceed the world's population by 2014. billion souls.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

There’s writer’s block, competition for our attention in the form of social media or our phones, and who can forget about the 50 other responsibilities we have on our plate. Next, I analyzed competitor metrics and backlink profiles of those who rank on the first page to determine if I stood a chance of ranking for them.

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