Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2006

What happens when you give a grantmaker a camera and flickr account? An interesting use of flickr as a documentation tool! Last May, I documented a project of the Sharing Foundation's in flickr. If you want to talk about flickr and nonprofits, there's a place to do so here. It's the college sponsorship program).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Eastern Europe and the Middle East have attended past webinars, but the timing is not convenient since the webinars take place on Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm GMT. The first two webinar dates and topics are: February 4: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Twitter and Flickr. Approximately 20 charities in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Their Pinterest boards provide ideas of fun activities that families can do together in local forests and other natural places. Users pin images, videos, and articles that reflect who they want to be, places they want to travel, things they want to try. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming.

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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. Nonprofits could use flickr to document and share a process with colleagues or staff in a remote office, similar to how these educators are using flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2007

So, I decided to select the top five flickr photos tagged with those words. You'll have to click through to see an enlarged photo, but apparently this place offers bikini bull riding. One favorite photographer in Flickr, although he has left flickr. One favorite photographer in Flickr, although he has left flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

4) Add a link to your Flickr account where journalists can download high resolution images related to the press release. Make it easy for them and compile a slideshow on Flickr in advance of the press release. Be sure to prominently place social networking icons on your website/press release that link to your online communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2010

Animal sanctuaries exist because there are places, people and things that animals need sanctuary from. Flickr: Farm Sanctuary. Chimps are used in labs for animal testing. Elephants are forced to perform silly tricks through submission in circuses. Please friend, follow and fan! Twitter: Chimpanzee Sanctuary. YouTube: Big Cat Rescue.

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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. View the Screencast here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

but at Network-Centric Advocacy blog, I found fastr flickr a game that uses flickr images. And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group. I love this one: Technorati Tags: ngo , nonprofit , non-profit , nptech , flickr It was only going to be for five minutes, I swear.

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JULY 10, 2012

Make your blog the place where you produce original content that’s tailored to your audience. 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. Your home base. Cornerstone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Not claiming your ‘Places’ pages on Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, etc. Enough said.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

With these agreements in place, Ethiopians could occupy a stronger negotiating position with foreign buyers, capture a larger share of the value associated with their names, and better protect their brands – regardless of whether the trademarks were granted." One aspect of the campaign is a Starbucks Flickr petition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A tool that allows you to creatively showcase your Foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook Places check-ins. Dipity :: dipity.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

First Place Video. Winning the 1 st place award for best video story, may I present “Freedom to dream” by Charity Express/ Dalit Freedom Network. Flickr Pro account. " First Place Photo. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set. Second Place. Flickr Pro. Third Place.

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APRIL 23, 2013

First Place Video. Flickr Pro account. First Place Photo. Flickr Pro account. Second Place (Photo or Video). Flickr Pro account. Third Place (Photo or Video). Flickr Pro account. These are the prizes that power our community. Enter the challenge now. Connect2give suite annual plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially.

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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 ). Flickr has that content (and makes the photo easier to find).

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MARCH 31, 2012

flickr: *saxon* Whether you’ll be there in person, or you’re participating online, we want you to take part in all the 2012 NTC buzz. On flickr Every year NTC attendees post their photos to flickr with the conference tag. Just search 12NTC on flickr to browse the conference stream and see what attendees are up to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A tool that allows you to creatively showcase your Foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook Places check-ins. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. It’s great that I can follow all of the content (blogs, tweets, Flickr photos, etc.)

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

People are coming from a good place. Even if someone posts something negative or critical, assume they are coming from a good place, agree with and support your mission and view of a better world, and are voicing a concern that may be felt by others; take a breath and then reread their comment without taking it personally.

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MARCH 6, 2008

Flickr giving away 10K pro memberships (to nonprofits) - News - Internet Applications Software: "Flickr is giving away pro accounts to nonprofits and public libraries to showcase their efforts.Yahoo owned photo community Flickr has launched a new program called Flickr for Good.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). And, as a displaced Oregonian myself (I will make it home one day!) What do you think? Do you have examples to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. As I do this in different places around the world with different types of nonprofits, different themes bubble up. How did this fire start in the first place? They capture their discussion by taking notes on the “tablecloths,” (in this case, it is flip chart paper). How can we prevent it?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

flickr: askdebra Chances are, if you've attended an NTC since 2008, you've met David Krumlauf. These organizations are: Deborah's Place : For the past 25 years, Deborah's Place has worked to break the cycle of homelessness through compassionate, innovative, and award-winning programs.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. So what makes Flickr so useful? It has the most photos from the most people and places. Now I always use Flickr. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Okay, pop quiz.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place. Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. The campaign. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. A great place to start your elevator speech is to adapt your marketing boilerplate. 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. Here’s one for Twitter. It grabs attention and says a lot in a few words.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Thing is, if I'm honest with myself, I know that the most sustainable way for me to make the world a better place is by using skills I love, like writing and teaching, which can be quiet work. Flickr photo credit: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter by Michael Dolan. Anyone else feel that way? Write an op-ed. Tweet Share

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. The best advice is to ask yourself if you need to schedule a meeting in the first place. Many of our meetings take place on conference calls. Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? Our tips are here.

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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. ” Our Second place winner for 2013 was the Youth Projects hard-hitting one minute video submission, No one grows up wanting to be a drug addict.

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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 ). And here’s how to start! It might not be new, and it might not be sexy.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) And remember, in the world of social media, it’s not necessarily about doing more things and being more places. It’s about doing the right things and being in the right places. 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal. Each social media channel (i.e.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

Over the last few years, I cut back on my donations because I felt like they were all over the place and not making much of an impact (especially when I give my little donation to an organization and I feel like they spend it by sending me pounds of direct mail). Flickr photo credit: Colored pencils by Alan Cleaver.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Flickr: woodley wonderworks The second week of Member Appreciation Month is drawing to a close, but our appreciation for you, our Members, continues. Our work is your work and we share a goal in common: that you succeed in your mission of making the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Flickr Photo by Brittany Bush. A few more reviews have come in about the book: Find Your Nonprofit Happy Place Review by Steve MacLaughlin. We are heading into the most stressful time of year for nonprofits, especially for fundraisers. Year-end giving campaigns. Review by Allyson Kapin on Care2 Blog.

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