Worth a Thousand Words: Photos, Photos, Photos!

Over at Katya's Nonprofit Marketing Blog, she's touched on an oft-repeated and even more often ignored topic of how to use pictures to tell your organization's stories. She's highlighted 4 tips that all nonprofits should heed to get the most out of using images online (and to protect themselves from a copyright infringement lawsuit!)

Beth Kanter, guru of all great nonprofit social media topics, penned an article for TechSoup a while back about how nonprofits can get the most out of using Flickr. It's worth a read if you're wanting to beef up your use of images — both owned by your organization and contributed from your constituents. The Wild Apricot folks added more to the mix with a review of 10 easy photo sharing and slideshow tools, which leaves all of us with NO EXCUSE not to be getting more visual in our communication tactics with our audiences.

And my cyber-love at GeekSugar provided a great list of free online photo editing sites if you need to crop out that ugly something-or-another in the background of your otherwise perfect photo before it can be sharing your story. You can also check out the variety of donated and discounted photo manipulation software available to many nonprofit organizations and libraries through our very own TechSoup Stock.