Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Having a staff retreat on an annual basis to map out large projects is also a good idea and anticipating monthly or quarterly key deadlines can minimize stress. There is even a “ look ahead ” template for Excel that make this type of planning easier to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2016

Flickr photo by Mallix. Then we play that out across every part of the campaign—from the stories we tell to the design of the email template and copy in the direct mail piece. From the first engagement action to the last thank you note, we see every interaction as a chance to reinforce your brand and your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. After you select your desired chart format, use the Chart Chooser to generate a PowerPoint or Excel template. A Field To Using Visual Tools by David Hyerle can help.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

You have to set this up for yourself by copying the source of a blog entry to a template editor and then replace the title, body, etc with placeholder tags. It would be wonderful if MarsEdit had a “Get Preview&# button that did this for you once it has your blog URL. Fine for me, not so much for my husband or colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2012

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. You’ll come away with some very useful tips for taking your blog content to the next level, from the technical stuff like SEO to getting into the writing zone. (There’s a very simple and useful blog editorial template ). This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! Newsjacking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

and develop an initial plan - perhaps using the soon to be finished template in Module 2. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Read the TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr " 2. Here's a few steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. That’s where she shared Editorial Calendar Template , an online spreadsheet. Holly did a fantastic session on integrated content strategies. It’s not every day that you come across high quality content shared freely with the community – it helps life all the boats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. I read this wonderful article “ Agility Is Today’s Most Critical Leadership Competency ” by Julie Winkle Giuliani , author of “ Watch Them Grow or Watch Them Go.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo. I found 3 really good planning templates. Terry / aXis / You Are a Dog / the book / the blog // We Are the Cat / the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. We’re trying to understand what continues work and what doesn’t and evolve practice. You need to be nimble and not blindly follow a template because it worked in the past. Measurement and learning are now more important than ever for success. Focus on Engagement That Leads To Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

This FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. He is a self-described " Internet Sociologist " and developer of NodeXL. The workshop was organized by colleague, Tatyana Kanzavelli.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

And your email newsletter template also has a spot in the sidebar with links to recent posts. You hop on your organization’s Flickr account, upload the images to your photosteam, and include a link to your blog post in the image descriptions. So that’s one place her post will be shared regardless. Your Email Newsletter.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. There are probably templates and resources that already touch on the types of process improvements you want to make. Connect with your peers about what's working and what's not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I found a few features annoying, most notably the lack of flexibility with the templates. I might spend a few minutes brainstorming on flickr by typing in combinations of keywords related to ideas to come up with a metaphor. Bringing traffic and saving time were attractive enough lures to get me to install it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

NodeXL Created by a Marc Smith , a self-described “ Internet Sociologist ,&# this FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. This can be useful to find potential collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

And, no there isn't yet a predictable template or formula. The photo sharing group on flickr called, " NpTech Dogs " now has 57 photos of some the cutest NpTech dogs ever (and a few cat photos too!). Many nonprofits are just beginning to use them as part of the Internet advocacy and organizing strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Other organizations broke their efforts down into bite-size pieces for their volunteers by creating templates to use to send messages to their friends, post and comment on blogs, and create their own videos.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. So, I really need reap experience to create a checklist, templates, and a worksheet. What do you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Then I sit with my storyboard, and look through my photo sources, like flickr and my photographs. Then, I start to develop it in Powerpoint and I don't touch the templates at all. I create from scratch to give it consistent visual look, but avoid the cookier cutter asethetics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Extensions are ways to connect the Convio app to other Web 2.0 apps out there. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." While there were many templates , it was helpful to have the conversation when pervasive Internet access in the workplace was a change. There are examples (see below).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

And on the marketing and tracking side, "rogue" blogs, YouTube channels, and Flickr pools that aren't clearly identified can become an annoyance as staff try to get a handle on institutional impact on the Web. If staff start blogging, posting videos and photos, etc., no sandals) and opportunities (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. You'll see all the mentions of you in recent blog posts. If something looks interesting, click through and read the post. but attracting followers who will read your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. Set up some email templates covering a few typical answers, requests etc. Look backward. Ask what if? Williambrook mentions a plugin to follow your comments. Some excellent tips: 1.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

There are simply better choices if you can't modify the HTML template. Photo in Flickr by Beth Kanter Contributing Editor Beth Kanter also blogs at Beth's Blog and Cambodia4Kids I ran into you at the Games for Change Conference, do you have interest in this area? Absolutely! stay tuned!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s filled with tips, templates, checklists and samples to help you apply what you learn right away. Photo cred: Flickr. Or, check out the Attitude of Gratitude Donor Guide to help you raise more money every year from here on out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

This free software download from Google is like having the tags of flickr on your hard drive, lets you visually search through your folders, and then upload, print, edit photos, burn cds, order prints, etc. Better if you are using typepad because you don't have to edit your template and you can use a wizard. (Not everyone is.)

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You can use this template to get you started. Make a copy of the file for your own use (otherwise anyone on the web will see your data if you put it in my template), or download the file. >> Photo credit: Flickr myklroventine. Get Started. >> [link]. Slides & Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. Flickr is a web application that allows anyone to share and organize photographs online. Flickr is fairly easy to use, the basics can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2015

Flickr Image: Myles Grant. YesWare : The primary benefits of Yesware are e-mail templating. Yesware E-mail templates make that task more efficient. Heidi Ketroser Massey and Nancy Schwartz asked about tools to help manage the process. This post was inspired by that discussion. Works for both gmail and outlook.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Here I’m using as a template one of the most impressive (and esoteric) taxonomies I’ve ever seen: Scott McCloud’s taxonomy of panel-to-panel transitions in comics. Flickr is similar to Wikipedia in that the focus is content, but there’s a lot more emphasis on networks (groups, establishing a personal profile with your pics).

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2015

Flickr — Includes lots of cool vintage photos. Canva — A design website offering all kinds of templates, for instance, a presentation template. Design Seeds — Use this for inspiration. It gives you many choices of an image and a matching color palette. Images: Where to Find Good Ones. and Piktochart.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Make sure that photos posted to Flickr and videos on YouTube come up on your Facebook page. Create templates for regularly used communications. Templates also make sure that less experienced writers include all relevant information. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Make sure that photos posted to Flickr and videos on YouTube come up on your Facebook page. Create templates for regularly used communications. Templates also make sure that less experienced writers include all relevant information. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc. This is what happened at the Oakland Museum of California, which used its very successful co-creative Days of the Dead project as a kind of template for participatory redesign.

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