Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Whether you're looking for your online visitors to contribute photos, forward your issue alerts, make a donation, or contact policy-makers, social media can be a powerful way of engaging your audience and driving them towards action. Kim, a grandmother living in Oregon, posts photos of the pothole in front of her house.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting). 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

Supporters have uploaded photos of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian farmers." So far, 186 photos have been posted. My only criticism of the campaign is that very few of the photos have a Creative Commons license that allows bloggers and other supporters to share the photos and spread the word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Flick Photo by Thomas Hawk. I'm filling in for colleagues Marnie Webb and Billy Bicket from Netsquared. Tools" and published under creative commons by/NC license. Later today I'm doing a Webinar, a briefing on Web2.0 tools for the good folks at NCNA. Both require me to let go of old ways. That's a hard thing to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. Read the post from Brian Lamb. With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hacker Helper is currently in beta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 One of the key points is listening. tools successfully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

TechSoup’s web content developer, Wes Holing, is a big fan of Pixlr Editor free online photo editor from Autodesk. Pixlr-o-matic is a free online tool that adds special effects, like making photos look antique. NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey.

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