Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2006

Flickr has added a new feature to its organizer - the ability to add geotags to your photos. There is now a map tab where you can navigate to a location and then automatically add the geotags to that location to a flickr photo or batch of photos. But it gets better: flickr is now using screencasts!

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

just posted an interview with her entitled " Camera Rwands: Storytelling using Flickr." " She talks about how flickr has impacted her, building communities around the images, and the benefits of using flickr for storyelling, communicating with stakeholders about a project. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration? kanter/beth5.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Brian Del Vecchio has put a call out for nonprofit projects for a hacking event that will take place in Cambridge in December. Here's mine: Please take the Flickr API and integrate Andy Goodman's Best Practices for Story Telling to create a Nonprofit Story Teller in Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. 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. A reflection about participation.

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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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Creative Commons on Flickr : A great source for images for your organization’s website, blog, e-newsletter, social networking profiles, etc. National Priorities Project : They offer three unique web-based tools that nonprofits can use to help educate the masses about the U.S.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Here are some ideas to make the most of volunteers online: Data/Image Projects. Data hygiene projects. Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. Social media analytics report. Build a Photo Library.

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DECEMBER 24, 2012

I know I said that I’ve taken my turn a few times with DIY projects, but I’m just a casual crafter. and enjoy hearing when someone writes back to tell me which project they funded and why. Photo: Flickr gazeronly. Supporting real crafters.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers serve as a consistent example of how to use the platform, how to engage with members, and how to accomplish the goals of the project. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Also, what is the time line for the project? Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set. We’re proud to present Youth Projects TV from Melbourne Australia with the 2 nd place overall award for their submission titled: No one grows up wanting to be a drug addict. Youth Projects TV will receive prizes from: GoToMyPC. Flickr Pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last year, The March of Dimes ran a flickr photo contest to help draw attention to premature births. This year, The March of Dimes continues to be a creative and innovative nonprofit user of social media with its Every Baby has a Story Tour project. Cooper and Emily just reminded me that November is Prematurity Awareness Month.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The other panelists spoke about the projects they’ve been a part of, things they’ve developed and things they’ve helped produce. Look to fund projects, not products. For many projects, money is obviously a key ingredient to staying afloat and going forward. Image credit: Flickr opensourceway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

2) Select the Issues you care about: 3) Follow a couple of nonprofits: 4) Then from your new Jumo homepage, select “Add a Project.&# There are fields to add your organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. I added WildAid , though I did not sign up to be an Admin for the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

I did a post about the Steve Cliff and the Voterss Project and it reminded be that for over a year I've been attempting to do multimedia conversation and I have only been able to talk to myself! re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. s how we seeded our project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Here's what I've found so far: • Jon Stewart mentioned Staten Island Strong , a project of the Carl V. SILive.com has a link on its home page for people to donate to the Project Hospitality Staten Island Hurricane Relief Fund. . Flickr photo credit: Staten Island Ferry by Robert Paul Young Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. As projects get more complex or your organization is trying to accomplish more with less resources, it gets harder to accomplish without more intentional planning. Crisis mode also happens when there is a lack of planning and prioritizing and everything is important!

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Museum 2.0

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? Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Now I always use Flickr. Okay, pop quiz. Where do you go?

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Editor's note: We'd like to thank the team at Idealware for helping us conduct this research, and Google for supporting the project.]. Flickr photo: torkildr. You can also read the case studies for four of the organizations we talked with: The Chatanooga Museums Collaborative. Environment America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook, ” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

Flickr Photo by Celestine Chua. For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month. It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. We see this in groups like Weight Watchers or AA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. ” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019! I had a great holiday break, although unfortunately I got sick. I use a large Moleskine (8 x 11.5)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The bootcamps will be an opportunity for the ngos they trained to meet and share knowledge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Plus we’ll provide a breakdown of the costs of every project in the form of a simple shopping list. This will certainly be an interesting project to follow! Longer-term, the plan is to become similar to Kiva.org, but for schools. Follow along and connect with the community!

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JULY 8, 2014

They impair our focus, our flow, and make it all the more difficult to get back to the task or project at hand. In the first two examples, you have allowed yourself to be taken out of your focused work session to attend to a task that does not directly relate to the project you’re currently working on. Why is this?

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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. One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Everyone is a Curator.

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