Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mozilla Service Week is here! We've blogged about Mozilla Service Week a few times in the past few weeks, but if you still haven't gotten involved, it's not too late. All week, the Mozilla Service Week site will be featuring volunteer success stories. You can also follow the action on Flickr and Delicious. read more.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Flickr: Scott Beale Biking to work last week was like riding through that town in the Andromeda Strain: t here were no other commuters, no car exhaust to cough on while waiting at lights. Mobile Citizen , a provider of low cost-mobile Internet for schools and nonprofits, announced this week that they are expanding their services nationally.

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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. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Chapter 5 YouTube and Flickr. Introduction to Flickr Accounts. Eleven Flickr Best Practices for Nonprofits. Eleven Flickr Best Practices for Nonprofits. Final Words: YouTube and Flickr Are Not Enough. 149 Tools, Resources, and Nonprofit Service Providers Covered. Getting Started with Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

Photo by Joel Zimmer The annual Day of Service at the NTEN NTC Conference has been a tradition since 2000. Orlando Roundup 2002 - Day of Service - We Won The Swimming UpStream Award! A group of nonprofit techies share their time and expertise with nonprofits from the local community. Anthony's Foundation and on Treasure Island.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

For example, The Ad Council and the Forest Service partnered together on a campaign called “Discover the Forest” , with the goal of inspiring tweens (aged 8-12) and their parents to re-connect with nature, experiencing it first-hand. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Today, I'm participating in a Day of Service along with almost 200 conference participants at two of their partner sites, the Capital Area Food Bank and Friendship Public Charter School - both organizations address hunger and poverty issues.  The qik video documents some of the tasks the volunteers are doing today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

I started my  Day of Service experience at Friendship Public Charter School  at the Southeast Elementary Academy  in the school cafeteri where volunteers were hard at work painting two murals.   Below are my flickr photos from the mural projects in the cafeteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Flickr Photo by Dogs New Cloths. Allison Fine, who authored " Social Citizens" , a paper recently released by The Case Foundation on the intersection of Millennials, social change and social media, wonders whether it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Photo credit: Flickr billiejoesentourage ). Tags: community resources community building nonprofits nten program service delivery webinar. Thoughts, ideas or case studies from your organization that you think are especially relevant and should be included? Leave a comment and let me know!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

The New York Times recently published an article, Big Paycheck or Service? Aimée Baker of The Refutation Process writes in her post, Public Service and the Graduate , that the expense of college, and the debt it creates, is what causes students to choose careers that pay big bucks. Flickr photo credit: Middle.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volunteering has always brought people together in service of a common cause but now we must do this online due to COVID-19. 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. Build a Photo Library.

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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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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

More Collaborative Delivery of Digital Services like SafeChatSV.org. SafeChat Silicon Valley is the first collaboratively managed online peer counseling chat service in the United States for those impacted by domestic violence or intimate partner abuse. flickr: blogtrepreneur. Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity .

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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. My guess is that over the next year we’re going to see a rise in nonprofit services tailored to create mobile-friendly Web page and QR Codes. So, what are they?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Geolocation services are going to be flooding the market, and it’s becoming apparent that blogging is often the missing link in a successful nonprofit social media strategy. February 23: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use YouTube, Animoto and Flickr. View : Complete Webinar Schedule.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Flickr: marcp_dmoz Technology aside, it’s clear that the advent of Cloud-based solutions has had an impact on the culture of our work as nonprofits. From collaboration to telecommuting and distributed workforces to sharing back office services, it’s changed the way we think about mobility and how we define “the office.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. 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. BlogPulse :: blogpulse.com. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Our panel of expert judges will be viewing submissions to determine the top three videos, receiving a suite of prizes from FlipVideo, Adobe, FirstGiving, Flickr, and more. This year, you’re involved! And thanks to Zoomerang Online Surveys & Polls , we’re excited to add a special Audience Choice Award this year! read more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

MobileBeacon hot spot and one year of unlimited 4G service. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. GoToMeeting with 25 seats. Atomic Training All Access yearly subscriptions. Cisco Flip video camera. Plantronics headset. First Place Photo. GoToMeeting with 25 seats.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2012

Flickr photo credit: Podrunzy. Our interviews with diverse nonprofits revealed a number of great examples from local and international organizations of all sizes and from across a wide range of technology expertise. We welcome your feedback and stories on this topic -- do these case studies reflect your experiences?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 29, 2013

"The greatest untapped source of motivation, he [Adam Grant] argues, is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other peoples’ lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves." Tweet Flickr photo credit: Just Give Me Water by Peter Korsh

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

These kinds of comments are an opportunity to show your amazing, and patient, customer service abilities! Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. You don’t [really] know your community members. I don’t say this to offend you, but just as a good reminder. Would love to hear what more you’d add to the list!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2009

They had more than 1000 folks show up to talk about service, nonprofits and social action. I thought Arianna Huffington did a good job as the opening keynoter hitting on the service theme. Posted the best 30 or so on Flickr : got some great ones of Steve Wright of the Salesforce Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings&# on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. I had the privilege of attending an event for A Billion + Change , a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars in skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effectively meet community needs. Guest post by Cindy Hallberlin.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

MobileBeacon hot spot and one year of unlimited 4G service. Flickr Pro account. Flickr Pro account. View their Flickr set. Flickr Pro. Flickr Pro. View their Flickr set. Charity Express will receive: Connect2give suite annual plan. A Notebook PC. GoToMeeting with 25 seats. Cisco Flip camera.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

Keep that in mind when selecting the service you want to use and build your nonprofit’s brand on: WaterAid on Twitpic :: twitpic.com/photos/wateraid. You can share (and customize/edit/color) your photos to Twitter, Flickr, and your personal Facebook profile, but only if you have an iPhone.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

For example, you don’t need to spend an abundance of time on MySpace if the service doesn’t match the demographic you’re wanting to reach. It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. Invest fully in a few tools, and use them well.

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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. ” Paul Connolly is Chief Client Services Officer at TCC Group , a 34 year-old consulting firm that provides strategy, evaluation, and capacity building services to funders and nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month. 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. BlogPulse :: blogpulse.com.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. Customer service is really important. Craig Newmark, of Craigslist fame , talks about culture, customer service and doing things the right way. He also offers up a short list of how to ‘do’ customer service better. Highlights: April, 2002 Netpreneur AdMarketing discussion.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services. Yet, while the social networks hold tremendous benefit for nonprofits that successfully engage their stakeholders, there are also dangers.

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