Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Based in Bangladesh, BRAC is one of the largest international development organizations in the world, and their 2018 Annual Report uses innovative design elements to present their numerous programs and initiatives in an accessible way. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. Cue the giraffes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Organically promote your Shop on social media by taking photos and videos of each item, ideally showing them in use in an authentic manner. Don’t be afraid to get quirky by promoting your merchandise during a trendy day of the year like International Coffee Day or National Best Friends Day when you have a good hook.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

By Bob Alves, President and CEO, Advanced Solutions International. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. . Why Internal Tools? Seeding Your Online Community to Promote Growth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. To manage multiple social networks, create visually compelling photo and video campaigns, and blog regularly is a minimal 20-hour a week investment into a skilled communications professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Photo by Tsmall. There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through dissemination of knowledge? Want to scale through advocacy?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

Do you help promote equal access to technology tools, knowledge, and resources in your community? TechSoup is partnering with the International City/County Management Association ( ICMA ), WebJunction , and the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS ) to help build digitally inclusive communities. Photo: woodleywonderworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine. Specialization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). I use photo documentation and also social media, for example, tweeting – and do a storify. You also want to document your training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

So I thought I’d answer that question here and as an upcoming guest post on Beth Kanter’s blog , since she’s likely given you many good ideas of how to use social media – and you’ve likely run into internal roadblocks on the road to Web 2.0. . There is no shame in gaining knowledge from mistakes – for you, or your boss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. Seek outsider knowledge. We have joked internally that Durfee’s tagline should be: Funding Failure Since 1960. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. It allows us to get on the same page – literally – with the same set of data from which to base our assumptions, and to fill in our gaps in knowledge to make more informed decisions. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Having a venue from which your organization can share its knowledge will expand your audiences, and build a robust internal culture. If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. Start with your nonrprofit's team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Strengthened social media ties and internal relationships with policy partners, including eight full cross posts and several tweets and retweets from those partners. They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

That said, if you decide to use Gmail e-mail as your login hub, then it is best to not give interns or volunteers access. Basic knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) will make or break your social media campaigns. Nonprofits like Amnesty International, PETA, the American Cancer Society, the Sierra Club, and the Susan G.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

As a nonprofit professional, you’re well aware that every dollar that goes to your internal operations is one dollar less for your mission— and unfortunately, that includes the funds spent developing your website. Is the CMS easy to edit in the backend by your internal team? How much does a nonprofit website cost?

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal information and profiles of as many as 87 million people who used Facebook without their consent or knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

engage internally. Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Clicking = good - a change in knowledge doesn’t equal a change in behavior; can you measure that? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Also, it allows for a more interactive discussion because participants can share their knowledge. The note itself is an excellent job description for a social media intern. This prompted a thoughtful discussion about to effectively manage social media interns. They shared how they worked through this internally.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. The tool can embed video, audio, photos and data visualizations easily with text. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. s Nonprofit Organizations ”) found that fund-development capacity-building tended to lead more to individual knowledge and motivation, while organizational assessment, strategic planning, and board leadership development were more likely to result in institutional change.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And the photo that accompanies it?—?big, This is called the “ Curse of Knowledge ”?—?i.e., The Curse of Knowledge describes the big challenge facing fundraisers and marketers: getting people who don’t know what you know to know it too. They simply don’t have the context, experience, or knowledge you do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 15, 2017

And with their outsider’s perspective, you never have to worry about bias or internal politics taking precedence over an applicant’s value. Photos or videos of your team in action. Break away from the traditional wall of text that comprises a job listing by including photos or videos of your staff and volunteers serving your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. They project has several components, including: Foko Blog Club is teaching young people in Madagascar blogging skills (See photo above).

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Photo by Nick Henry). An intern working on a master’s degree in public health conducted the evaluation, so costs for the study were minimal. posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. A student at Ochoa Elementary in Tucson proudly displays her bounty of carrots after harvest day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? We have a new transportation blog , Way2Go, and new participants in our international climate talks blog.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Cora graduated from Regent University with a master’s degree in organizational leadership & international business. Ideas include asking participants to create videos, share photos, or come up with clever hashtags and branding ideas for your nonprofit. She has over 20 years of marketing, advertising, and branding experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site. Georgina and her staff are pictured in this photo, below. Absolutely brilliant!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared. NetSquared meetup in Adelaide, Australia ( Photo courtesy of Connecting Up Australia ). Here the responses varied somewhat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Photo by Nic's Events. " To my knowledge, no one had ever told employees that they were allowed to talk about their job before. I put out a query for examples of blogging and social network/media policies for nonprofits and got lots of good examples. That got me thinking about the process for developing the policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Take screen shots by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Print Scrn and copying them into your photo program. I am the director of communications for agros international, and will soon be launching a media rich blog for our org. Include commentary on what is confusing to you and what you think.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Photo by Michaela Hackner, Kalabird. By the time you read this post, I will be crossing the International Dateline enroute to the first Cambodian Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh. (No, But I knew nothing about international relations, development, political science, civil society,et al. No, I'm not blogging on the plane!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The people at this Berkeley, California based nonprofit are among the most knowledgeable people I've ever come across, and so is their resource list. Disabled World - International facts and statistics on disabilities and disability Issues. Photo: Braille reader by iampeas. Additional Technology Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The "loosing control" aspect of social media will happen no matter and you need to have the conversation internally to figure out how you will address it. Marc contributed some knowledge to the ROI section and also contributed some reflections about why he participated. (I Tell me about you and your job. As of now, we???ve

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