Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

UPDATED 2/26/12: Please note that the best practices listed below are a work in progress and are updated regularly. To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Over time and through implementing the best practices listed below and those yet to come, you will find your Google+ voice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits. The nonprofit sector is new to group text messaging, and because of that, most best practices have yet to be determined. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Also, below you’ll find nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits. That said, if you would like to be informed of when new best practices are added, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Today, I'm co-hosting an online event on TechSoup about Flickr with Heather Camp, Flickr Community Manager. When I was at the height of my Flickr obsession (and living overseas when I had a lot more time), I limited myself to posting no more than 4 images at a time for this reason. This event will run today.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2012

"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. For the past week, examples of daily practices around creativity and giving have been showing up, so I thought I'd share them with you. Howabout you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers, share best practices at no charge , and deepened our learning based on a monthly theme. This month’s theme: Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits. My LinkedIn Network Map – a set on Flickr. What does that mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Putting the Networked Nonprofit ideas into practice and using social media and other emerging technologies will only be success if nonprofits take small, incremental and strategic steps. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Eleven Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven E-newsletter Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Donate Now Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits. Five Advanced Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I agree in theory, but in practice I have to say it depends. 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. cambodia4kidsorg's flickr score: 3427.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2012

Sponsored by Microsoft Corporate Citizenship and presented by Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech 2.0 , attendees will gain practical knowledge about how to successfully integrate your nonprofit’s Web 1.0 This 90-minute social media how-to webinar is ideal for nonprofit communications and fundraising staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Social media best practices are constantly in flux as tool sets change and algorithms are modified. on a regular basis you may not realize that the best practices that worked six months ago have evolved and some simply don’t work anymore at all. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.”

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

Flickr: Newfrontiers NTEN is excited to announce a new opportunity for year-round community engagement: Communities of Practice (CoPs). A Community of Practice will be more focused than an Affinity Group. They will replace our current Affinity Groups, and will remain open to NTEN members and non-members alike.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

flickr: Horia Varlan Like all organizations, the staff at NTEN does our best to stay in tune with our awesome community; but every once in a while we find ourselves in a bubble or at least not fully understanding what new decisions will look like from the outside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2006

This kind soul happen to walk by when the flickr blogher meetup birds of a feather session ended and we needed a group photo. And, while I was listening to folks wax rhapsodic, I took photos and practiced some of the points that Heather Champ mentioned during her digital photography workshop yesterday. Can anyone help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media.

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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. They just announced a program to give nonprofits some free “pro&# accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. The Greater Good Science Center has collected many techniques that individuals can practice to boost their resilience on their website Greater Good in Action , including research-based exercises for fostering kindness, connection, and happiness. How do you practice it? Partnerships and Alliances.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2007

That's a photo of me with Andy Goodman at the break during the Keynote workshop on Story Telling as Best Practice. " (I referred to this book in one of my first screencasts in using flickr for presentations ) What I learned deeply influenced and changed my practice in presenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. s Ning site began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2008

Beth's Flickr Stream. I shared some screencasts by Andy Roberts that provide some practical tips and also explain why FriendFeed is useful (combines object sharing with friend of friend). Jonathon Colman set up a FriendFeed Room for NpTech and I designed a quick experiment in sharing resources via FriendFeed about FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization. The success of the program (even if at a small scale) led us to explore what it might take to expand the delivery of the leadership development best practices for young leaders to the social sector more broadly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2010

Topics include Facebook and Facebook Apps, Twitter and Twitter Apps, YouTube, Flickr, Animoto, LinkedIn, FourSquare, mobile technology, blogging on WordPress, as well as online fundraising and e-newsletters. Webinars are currently scheduled through the end of July: View Webinar Schedule. She also created and writes exclusively for this blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2012

Sponsored by Microsoft Corporate Citizenship and presented by Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech 2.0 , attendees will gain practical knowledge about how to successfully integrate your nonprofit’s Web 1.0 This 90-minute social media how-to webinar is ideal for nonprofit communications and fundraising staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Some post-dinner random browsing and I found this wonderful example of teachers sharing their lesson plans via flickr. My questions: Is there a way for nptech folks to share their practice working with clients via flickr? To see the full set: [link]. Food for thought.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Faith in Practice won an Honorable Mention in the Digital Storytelling Online Challenge for their Flickr story submission. I work full - time with Faith In Practice (FIP), a nonprofit organization out of Houston, Texas that does medical mission work in Guatemala. What organization do you work for and where are you located?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

Before I introduced the song, in the circle time we practiced saying Happy New Year in Chinese. (I 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? They really enjoyed the " Gung Hay Fat Choy " song. Is something sweet?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. Linking to a desktop site in a QR Code that is meant to be read on smartphone is not practical. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they?

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Flickr: LexnGer In case you hadn't noticed, NTEN is a community of nonprofit and technology professionals sharing information about using technology effectively for nonprofit work. That means all the knowledge behind NTEN resources – the how-tos, best practices, strategy tips, recommendations, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. you can download the slide here and revise), so here goes: Flickr screencapture here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

She is using flickr to share and get feedback via the comments feature in flickr. and Communities of Practice Conference beginning next week. Nancy White has some mindmaps up for the Technology for Communities report she is working on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In my Webinar on How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Technology and Social Media , I demonstrate live and in real-time each of the vendors listed above, as well as numerous mobile tools and best practices for texting, mobile Websites, and how to use social media on the go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Identify who you are and inc lude a link.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2013

Flickr: waywuwei Earlier this year, we worked with Avectra to release The 2013 Nonprofit Engagement Data Study , which was based on a survey of nonprofit communications and fundraising professionals, as well as executive directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. ” Many of these practices are used at companies that pride themselves in having productive meetings. How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

In addition, for photos in flickr, link back to the photo page and the license, although latter isn't required but nice to promote CC Also, when you find a link to something, it is a good idea (not required) to give Linktribution a term coined by Cogdog Alan Levine (hope I spelled it right this time).

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