Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Flickr Photo by Locator. I'm doing a panel at NTC with Susan Tenby and will be talking about Flickr and (and Twitter). So, I'm hoping that your nonprofit is using Flickr, could you leave me a comment and a URL? I'm working on article too. I'm hoping to update this list.

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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. From now through February 11th, you can vote for your favorite digital story. read more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

This time, I reached into the TechSoup DigiToolbox for digital story-making and discovered the dynamic and immersive platform that is Zeega. This is the story of my first great adventure to create a new and improved way to present our TechSoup Member Spotlight Series, and the beginning of a devastatingly beautiful love story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2013

Social media has forever changed how nonprofits and journalists distribute and consume news stories, yet the format of nonprofit press releases has not evolved at all. 4) Add a link to your Flickr account where journalists can download high resolution images related to the press release. 9) Increase the font size.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2007

Here on Flickr, our members are sharing the world that they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty. To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in 24 Hours of Flickr, a day-long global photo project. What happens around the world in one day? In a word ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Analytics really do tell stories! Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S. residents to show their support for the 43 million refugees around the world leading up to World Refugee Day on June 20th.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. 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. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. Website: www.nature.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Tip: Share stories about your impact and the different ways to get involved with your cause. You can directly pin your videos from YouTube and your photos from Flickr. People go to Pinterest often intending to spend money and make a purchase, either in the moment or in the future. . YouTube videos will play inside the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Click to Flickr Photos Tagged with 07ntc in A Slide Show Presentation. I got asked this question several times during various presentations/panels at I was on at the NTC, including the Flickr Affnity Group session on Wednesday. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2011

3) Add Flickr SlideShows or YouTube videos to content pages. Whether you embed slideshows or videos into your website or opt for pop-ups, videos and slideshows are great ways to tell your nonprofits story and engage and inspire your supporters. The Sierra Club :: www.sierracluub.org.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Here are 10 stories related to social media and nonprofits that I think you should review. VIII) Flickr Changes might signal change for location and privacy for all. What are your 10 for Tuesday stories? X) Seven Deadly Sins of Social Good. IX) How Diverse are Social Networks. VII) Animals given voices through Twitter.

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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. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

Flickr (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) helps to manage photos and can also be used to upload and edit photos. Instagram (Android, iOS) is the ultimate social photo-sharing platform. You can add filters and effects to your photos and share them on social media. Instagram also supports video, as long as you use the in-app camera to record!

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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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AUGUST 18, 2014

Our friends at TechSoup are hosting the Storymakers 2014, a campaign to help nonprofits, libraries and charities tell amazing stories about the work they do, and share their message with the world. Nonprofits Video flickr instagram pictures stories storymakers 2014 techsoup wine'

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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. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The most successful fundraising campaigns, advocacy efforts, and even personal experiences center on one person, one animal, one story, especially when trying to support a huge, faceless issue. Invite everyone to join the movement by sharing pictures, stories, and signs to spread your message (try Flickr or Tumblr ).

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

But to do that, their stories need to stand out and be noticed. The Storym akers campaign empowers nonprofits, libraries, and charities with the tools and training to tell their stories, get noticed and make an impact. Super-short stories (sign-up link coming soon!) - 8/27. Submit Your Story for Cash Prizes.

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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. via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. More on that later.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

One aspect of the campaign is a Starbucks Flickr petition. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story. flickr petition coffee fair trade oxfam Supporters have uploaded photos of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian farmers." So far, 186 photos have been posted.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We all have a story. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. Flickr Pro account. Watch their story. Flickr Pro account.

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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. Share Stories from the Field.

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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. The stories are also being collected in Scrapblog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee I declared that resilience was one of my themes for the new year. And, in writing a guest post about it over at the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effective Blog, I shared the story of the boiling frog. … Read More

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 21, 2009

I keynoted the Illinois Computing Educators - ICE conference recently, and someone posted a picture on Flickr. It's fun to go out and tell stories to hundreds of people. Mainly, I talk about where Benetech comes from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

I told them Nick could answer the questions they had about the flickr photo set he put together. Was there really a dragon named Nien-- or is that just a story? What is the food in the first flickr photo? These six-year olds were amazed that we could do that with a computer and very impressed that I knew someone in Hong Kong.

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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. Share Stories from the Field.

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APRIL 13, 2013

Flickr photo: Anne Helmond The Rob Stuart Memorial Award honors the spirit of the man who was so pivotal in creating our community. The 2013 Award Winner Invisible People uses the lens of a television camera to tell the stories of homelessness and the organizations trying to help. 13ntc Community nten awards'

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

A blog can provide the space for sharing news, announcements, stories, and other information and let you reshare and distribute it all over the web. Or, maybe you weren’t interested in the stories being told. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). Create Community Dialogue. Multimedia Storytelling. Think blogs are boring?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2007

My Flickr Stream. A few months ago, Rebecca Krause-Hardie and I co-wrote an article for ArtsReach Magazine about how arts organizations are mixing in social media strategies. You can find a copy of the article here. If you are interested in learning about how arts organizations are using the social web, read Becky's blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. Create a sexy story. You know that compelling stories get you donations, sharing, and publicity, but you’re probably thinking — “I don’t have a sexy story” or “I don’t know how to tell a compelling story”. It’s actually easier than you think to create one that works.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

We were overwhelmed with the talent and stories you all shared with us! Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. You’ll get to meet some of our local judges , see dozens of the best videos and photo stories, and connect with fellow digital storytellers.

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Tech Soup

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 story challenges get lots of attention. We appreciated the opportunity to work with TechSoup and tell our story.”

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