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Nonprofit Tips – Maximizing Use of Flickr
Posted by Scott Meis
Many web users have at least heard of Flickr or used the site at some point to upload personal photos. However, there are also some key ways that Flickr can be used to build community and engage others in conversation around a specific topic just like any other social networking or content sharing tool.
Nonprofit social media guru Beth Kanter wrote an article for Techsoup about “How Nonprofits Can Get the Most out of Flickr” back in March. I really enjoyed Beth’s bottom-up approach, first addressing the basics and then providing more details about the critical importance of everything from descriptions and tags, categories and groups, to how to utilize creative commons licenses.
With tight budgets, nonprofits are frequently looking for ways to help increase awareness and action around their mission. Defining set objectives and embracing social media with a well-planned strategy can be key to helping work toward accomplishing that mission.
Hop over to the Nature Conservancy’s site for a prime example of how a nonprofit has utilized Flickr to build community through a photo contest. Over 8,000 members and 83,000 submissions posted on their Flickr group!
-Scott
Let’s Get Social
Posted by Scott Meis
It’s about time. For the past couple years I’ve been following the ongoing conversation on social media and creating strategies to utilize social media within my own job at Carolyn Grisko & Associates here in Chicago.
I love the amazing insight put forth by Lee over at SMUG and Jeremiah over at Web Strategy to name a few (I assure you the ole blogroll will grow rapidly over the next couple weeks). I love learning about new trends, creating new strategies, discovering new perspectives and engaging in good conversation about social media. It’s an undefined process enhanced by tools that ultimately rely on sheer conversation and interaction. Pure communication at its finest.
The short history of it all is that I’ve lived in Chicago for the past four years where I’ve been at CG&A implementing social media, marketing and PR campaigns for a variety of nonprofit, corporate and government clients. I grew up most my childhood out near Seattle, went to college down in Nashville, lived out in Newport, RI for awhile and made my way back across to the Windy City.
Above all, I’m obsessed with social media and its ever-changing role in the world of communications. Not good for a guy that loves spending time outside.
I look forward to my little space here and I look forward to the conversations that will evolve. Come, join me, discuss.
Let the journey begin.
-Scott
