Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I had used the commentors flickr photo - "CC BY license" and he stopped to say thanks. Needing a distraction, I checked out his flickr profile and noticed a Flickr Score and link to the Flickr Inspector. Good question. And the Flickr Inspector also gives you a meaningless score too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

The newest one is called the Warholizer Now, I know where one of last week's Creative Commons Flickr photo entrants might possibly have gotten their inspiration. I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Here's an interview with Nature Conservancy staff members Evan Parker and Susan Citro about how the organization is using Flickr. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? We have had really great success on both fronts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

They collaborated on this photo essay that demonstrates the simplicity and power of their vision. We found one of our favorite photos on Flickr, taken by Austrian photographer Thom Trauner, who captures the essence of the issue. At first glance, our new book, The Convivial Museum , is about the most simple ideas.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Are you considering a photo or video campaign for your organization? If you have ever asked your members to post photos on Facebook or asked for stories from your clients, you have tasted the abundance that user-generated content (UGC) can bring to your organization. Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

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. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2005

Marnie Webb asks a great question: Wonder what flickr has to do with nonprofits? Or maybe the question should be what can nonprofits do with flickr as answered in the comments. Tharum , who works for a a Cambodian NGO, recently wrote about how flickr helps more people learn about Cambodia. More to think about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Linktribution is given to Alan for designing the flickr contact acquisition behavior scale. My virtual colleague, Alan Levine, posted a reflection about educational technologists flickr contact acquisition behavior. If I cannot tell who it is (which is hard form flickr user names), I do check them out, but nearly always I reciprocate.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 17, 2009

If so, send me you questions! Lara Galinsky, Echoing Green's Senior Vice President, and I will be discussing your questions. I'll be pulling together the topics for our next recording session soon, so please send your questions to me by Monday, July 20th via the comments below, Twitter , Facebook or email (britt AT brittbravo DOT com).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

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. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. Questions for further exploration.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Next Tuesday, I’m running a webinar with NTEN discussing “More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals.&# As always, I hope it’s a fun and informative session, but it’ll also have space for sharing and lots of questions. Photo credit: Flickr billiejoesentourage ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

At Harry's class, I did the circle time of explaining Chinese New Year -- mostly as an inquiry lecture - asking them lots of questions and encouraging their questions. I told them Nick could answer the questions they had about the flickr photo set he put together. What is the food in the first flickr photo?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

That may mean it is a quick text-based response, a photo, a very short video, or a good sized video, respectively. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. These kinds of comments are an opportunity to show your amazing, and patient, customer service abilities! That’s a much better tone to set.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time. Post Photos, Videos and Quotes. Ask Questions (true/false, fill in the blank, yes/no, Try “Fill in the Blank” Posts. Keep Posts Short.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. It should leave your audience wanting more, while answering the essential questions about your organization. Here’s one for Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Unfortunately, there isn't an easy answer to that question. If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Follow LearnAsOne on Twitter. What do you need?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). So maybe this isn't "LOC Rocks Flickr."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

She offered a handful of questions during the podcast to help determine personal giving priorities: What brings me joy? Some of my answers to her questions would be: What brings me joy? Flickr photo credit: Colored pencils by Alan Cleaver. What really excites me? What inspires me? What makes me sad? What inspires me?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It was a tough question, but someone had to answer it: Idealist’s Scott Stadum! It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. You can post YouTube videos to your blog posts and Flickr photos to your Upcoming.org event listings.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Bonnie and I saw a need for a shared space to pool questions, ideas, lessons learned and examples from the work of many organizations, campaigns, and even community groups were doing to try to scale success, especially across geographic boarders, to help create a better world. Photo credit: Flickr: ToastyKen ). Where do I fit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr Photo by epsos.de. I like the phrase “curiosity-driven.&# That an organization knows the questions to right ask, how to collect the right data to answer those questions. I saw an interesting post from Eric Petersen called “ The Myth of Data-Driven Business &# by way of KD Paine’s blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. Last month, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where over 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Also, it is important to having ongoing communication when priorities shift and be able to ask and answer the question, “What is the most important deliverable on this list of ten things that we need to do today?” So, the big question, how do you prevent this or turn it around?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2010

I got a terrific question about whether or not smaller nonprofits can really become networked nonprofits. Beneath this question was one about the scarcity of resources. East Bay Regional Parks - Calendar from Photos in Flickr Group. Their flickr group is an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. How are answering the question: capacity building for what? Diffuse best technologies for work (i.e. Succession planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. You need to shape it and that means thinking through some design questions. What are your session’s learning objectives and who is the audience? Even if a question is optional, providing an answer can help put your proposal over the top.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Need help or have questions? Flickr photo credit: martha_chapa95. Pat yourself on the back if you''ve joined or renewed your NTEN membership for 2014. Contact us anytime). Take a look at pictures from the most recent Tech Club event and join a local tech club. Have a laugh before heading into your holiday.

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