Last night at Net Tuesday San Francisco, Tara Kirchner, Senior Marketing Manager for Yahoo! Inc., and Carol Rudisill, Director of TechSoup Stock, presented about Flickr for Good. Flickr for Good is donating 10,000 1-year Flickr pro accounts to nonprofit organizations in partnership with TechSoup Stock.
They have some lovely examples on the Flickr for Good site of how nonprofits are using Flickr, and are looking for more, which inspires this month's Net2ThinkTank question:
How Can Nonprofits Use Flickr?
Share your ideas about how nonprofits can use Flickr in a blog post on your own blog, or here, on the NetSquared Community Blog. Any registered user can post, here's how to post on the NetSquared Blog.
Please tag your post, "net2thinktank" and send a link to it to me at bbravo@techsoup.org by Wednesday, August 27th at 5 PM PT. I will post a round-up of links to folks' answers by Thursday, August 28th.
You can read past Net2ThinkTank questions and answers at
netsquared.org/tags/net2thinktank
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It's About Change
One of the things that photographs can do is help convey change over time. This is a concept central to most community development work and one that is very difficult to convey.
We've used Flickr in the last few months to document the creation of an innovative new playground at our school:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/learning_community/collections/721576066336...
This has helped us:
> explain our work to students, families and staff who weren't around over the summer. Our second graders will want to know how our old parking lot grew a hill.
> impress the distant funder who was thrilled to see the work evolve.
> help the designer, who worked at a reduced rate to make something remarkable happen for us and now has lots of documentation of her work.
> acknowledge volunteers who donated a lot of time.
> demonstrate to teachers that Flickr is cool.
I'm sold, and am scheming other ways to use Flickr in the coming year.
Flickr to show work in Afghanistan
Last year, I was in Afghanistan for six months, working on a UN contract with an Afghanistan ministry. I inherited a rich archive of photos of the ministry in action helping to establish local government systems and coordinating local people on various small infrastructure projects. But the photos had never been shared. So, I sat up an account on Flickr, and uploaded the best of these photos. I also encouraged staff to take more photos and to share them with me, and did a workshop for local staff on how to take quality photos. The results are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nabdp/
The feedback regarding these photos was amazing. Donors loved them, and Afghans living abroad *really* loved them. I did my best to train the local staff to maintain the site after I had gone, but, unfortunately, there's huge staff turnover... anyway, this site lives on, and the photos still give me hope for Afghanistan.
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Jayne Cravens
Bonn, Germany
http://www.coyotecommunications.com
Flickr For Good Wikis
This resource might be helpful -- http://socialmedia4change.pbwiki.com/Flickr
And Beth Kanter's collection rocks! -- http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/flickr
thanks Joe - and this article on techsoup too
How Nonprofits Can Get The Most out of Flickr
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page8291.cfm
Steve Bridger has been the Flickr for Good Evangelist in the UK and might have some really cool stuff
http://www.stevebridger.com/
Capturing an evidence base
Hi Britt,
Flickr is all about sharing, and it's the best way I know for charities to learn to be generous, tag, and tell their stories... without freaking people out by mentioning "web 2.0". In the words of Charles Leadbeater, “In the past you were what you owned. Now we are what we share”
I've run out of time to blog about this topic, but here are a couple of quick pointers to good examples of Flickr use...
Joseph Kimojino is the head of tourism & anti-animal harassment for Mara Conservancy. He does a great job of using his Flickr account to capture photo evidence of poaching & then demonstrates the impact of supporter giving through his blog.
Sightsavers has a good collection of images on Flickr.
Personally, I think there is huge potential to use Flickr for training purposes - especially with the 'annotation' functionality.
Steve
Capturing an evidence base
Hi Britt,
Flickr is all about sharing, and it's the best way I know for charities to learn to be generous, tag, and tell their stories... without freaking people out by mentioning "web 2.0". In the words of Charles Leadbeater, “In the past you were what you owned. Now we are what we share”
I've run out of time to blog about this topic, but here are a couple of quick pointers to good examples of Flickr use...
Joseph Kimojino is the head of tourism & anti-animal harassment for Mara Conservancy. He does a great job of using his Flickr account to capture photo evidence of poaching & then demonstrates the impact of supporter giving through his blog.
Sightsavers has a good collection of images on Flickr.
Personally, I think there is huge potential to use Flickr for training purposes - especially with the 'annotation' functionality.
Steve
http://socialmedia4change.pbwiki.com/
Thanks, Joe. You have built an impressive wiki of examples!