Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Not that long ago, there were dozens of charity mobile phone donation programs vying for attention. program provides collection boxes for schools, charities and churches and buys the collected phones. We discovered that operating a successful charity mobile phone donation program is complex and difficult. What happened to them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Flickr Fan Art on a Typewrtr by CoCreator. I am a member of the Flickr Fan Art Group. So, it was actually fun to write this TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr." " It is ten tips for those who are new to Flickr to get the most out of it. (My And, if you are not on Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Launch a sustainer program, if applicable. Launch a gift donation program, if applicable. Apply to the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Set up Flickr Profile. Add a video or slideshow to your “Thank You” landing page, if applicable. Web 2.0 :: The Social Web.

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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. It's the college sponsorship program). If you want to talk about flickr and nonprofits, there's a place to do so here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

So, while I'm waiting for my 2800 plus email messages to download and organizing almost as many flickr photos, I discovered a wonderful new FREE mapping program called Wayfaring. So, I plotted our vacation where we logged almost as many miles as I have email messages and linked to flickr photo sets. Pretty cool? What others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2011

That said, in my upcoming webinar on YouTube and Flickr , I’ll be doing an in-depth click-by-click demonstration of Cosmic Panda, but in the meantime here are five, somewhat random things your nonprofit needs to know about YouTube’s Comic Panda: 1) You can try it out ( here ) and go back to your old design if you’d like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Lacking any programming skills to speak of, I've been looking at widgets and tools that put an easy interface to flickr that let you display photos. Seems like it is hard to get someone who might be interested, but it isn't already a flickr user to participate. So, I said, "Make me a flickr birthday card instead."

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits. They just announced a program to give nonprofits some free “pro&# accounts. They just announced a program to give nonprofits some free “pro&# accounts. So what can nonprofits do with Flickr?

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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. s a changemaker.

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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. writing does not permit.

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NetWits

APRIL 26, 2011

As the Digital Marketing Manager at NWF she responsible for running NWF’s social media program – Yes, the one that’s been talked about all over the web by such publications as USA Today , The Nonprofit Times , Fast Company , Washington Post , Mashable , GreenTalk Radio , and Fundraising Success Magazine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week I posted about becoming a virtual volunteer (a volunteer whose work happens online), but what if you're a nonprofit that wants to start a virtual volunteer program? What are some of your favorite virtual volunteer program management tips and resources? Ellis and Jayne Cravens. Cross-posted from The Extraordinaries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods. Be sure to add a price to your pin description so that a price banner appears on your pin: Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. Add a price banner to your pins that are goods being sold or fundraising campaigns.

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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 applying for YouTube’s Nonprofit Program. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. YouTube.com/nonprofits. Enough said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

The chart was generated by a program called Swivel. I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. This joint program is developed to help ensure we are working from the same assumptions and telling the same story. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. 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? Absolutely brilliant!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Teaser: Flickr photo: niallkennedy. After a lot strategic planning, much hard work (and not a little luck), we've managed to grow our membership, help more nonprofits learn nonprofit technology skills through our programs, and connect the NTEN community more than ever before. Blog Content: Flickr photo: niallkennedy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. And we'd love to give a shout out to all of our generous partners who contributed time and knowledge toward our tweet chat and webinar programming. Atomic Training All Access yearly subscriptions. Cisco Flip video camera.

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AFP Blog

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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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. Follow Shub @shubsengupta.

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NTEN

AUGUST 7, 2013

Flickr: photofarmer NTEN has worked hard over the years to reduce the carbon footprint of our annual conference. This year, we''re formalizing our efforts and rolling out a new sustainability plan to help us be even more effective in ''greening'' the NTC. And we need YOU, our wonderful community, to help! Interested or have questions?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. You can only have a real impact and “control&# or influence over the public conversation about you, your organization or your programming if you are listening and engaging. Conversations take place in both places separately and together.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Many nonprofits offer donation gift programs or sell goods. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. Tap into that phenomenon by embedding inspirational and quirky quotes onto your images, such as: pinterest.com/pin/203154633160827892/. Space your Pinning throughout the day.

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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. school name, programs you run, staff/board members, etc). Make your blog the place where you produce original content that’s tailored to your audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

But, operating as a community organizer or manager is such a filling and critical role for programs, platforms and even campaigns to be successful that the idea of herding cats turns into searching youtube for cutest kitten videos. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). Background. What do you think? Do you have examples to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Most attention to scaling social impact has tended to focus on replicating programs to extend service delivery. A chief predictor of growth and scaling was centralized program design leadership – in other words, only letting the necessary “cooks” belong in the program development “kitchen.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Provide Organizational Updates.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Needless to say, without good SEO, you’ve got a very slim chance of being found by people searching for things you offer (events, fundraising opportunities, volunteer opportunities, programs, etc). Do you offer local or national programs? So what do you want to be known for on the web? Do you run fundraising events?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 31, 2009

We’re still getting pictures posted, but here’s a link to some of them from Flickr. This bill would establish a national colorectal cancer screening program for Americans between the ages of 50-64 who do not have adequate health insurance. Your phone call could help us make a national screening program a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. What lies beneath a request for technology capacity or skill building or the rush to adopt the newest social or mobile tool? Are there other more pressing organizational issues that should be addressed first such as poor program quality or lack of a overall communications strategy or leadership issues.

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