NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). The winners will be anounced at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 8, 2009

If you win, you get: two tickets to the Inaugural Ceremony & the Hawaii Inaugural Ball three-nights hotel stay airfare for you and a guest to the Nation’s Capitol a Flip video camera The last day to apply is 3pm EST on January 12, 2009. The contest is open to people who reside in one of the 50 U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. They want to connect.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

Most people are willing to spend $1.99 A DV (Domestic Violence) Awareness app provided by People Against a Violent Environment , that says that the organization receives all of the profits from the sale of the application. A number of people wrote in just to say that they'd like a list of iPhone apps for nonprofits.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

There’s been an exciting development in online collaboration this month with GSA’s launch of Challenge.gov – a platform for Federal agencies to conduct challenges and contests. In the past, the government might have hired and managed people to try to find solutions the these problems. Since 2004 (or earlier!),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. billion users, who are very engaged, take actions based on recommendations from friends,” he added. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People. More than 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow. Youthprise, a youth-serving nonprofit and grantmaking organization put up $14,000 in prize grants for the contest. Since the promoted post was a video and had a strong call to action (today is the day to donate) we feel it was a great use of promoted posts.

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APRIL 1, 2016

Both NCAA basketball and the PGA tour are dedicated to making a difference by using their money, people and clout to make a lasting impact. The initiative is also an effort to enable more people to sign up for the national bone marrow registry. Mickelson’s wife and mother were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. The PGA Tour.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 14, 2009

You can also search for volunteer opportunities on VolunteerMatch , Idealist , Social Actions , Network for Good , 1-800 Volunteer.org , MLK.gov , servenet.org , Volunteer Solutions , and GuideStar. Vicki of Zazengo shared more ways to spread the word in her Social Actions blog post, Help Promote MLK Day on Facebook + Zazengo.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Peter Deitz, Social Actions. Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. For organizations that stick to a more traditional managerial and communications structure between now and then, however, raising money is going to be tougher in 2012 than in the darkest days of 2009.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

It is a program that encourages nonprofits, large and small, to use the web to engage people in their work, and to encourage small donations. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Today they just announced that the W.K. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. Private, personalized messages, not mass emails.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Ahern was surprised that basic skills he took for granted as a sales copywriter – like the deft use of emotional triggers to prompt action, for instance; or reverence for the customer – were often missing in the donor communications he saw. He began working with nonprofits full-time about 15 years ago. And he saw a lot. He loves clubs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). I had no idea what Twitter was or what it was for, but I had heard of it in the traditional media channels.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

"This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. There really are no golden rules here - were continually surprised by the content we see from people on YouTube and it spans a very wide variety of form and formats.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

"This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. There really are no golden rules here - were continually surprised by the content we see from people on YouTube and it spans a very wide variety of form and formats.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It doesn’t allow people to take your organizational actions or sign-up for your newsletters the way Convio’s application does. So it might not be so easy to deliver specific messages to specific people within Facebook the way you might elsewhere. They have also made it easy to build. Interactivity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Below are a few examples and resources to help you start, or join a social action book group: 1. Each month they'll focus on a different area of social injustice, encourage participants to read about the issues, and take action. Are you part of a social action book club? The Kittredge W.I.S.H. How did you organize it?

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JULY 5, 2011

(This was originally written in June 2009. No Call to Action. Email is not where the action is. The action only happens on your website. Never send an email message or enewsletter without a call to action. That action doesn’t always have to be a financial transaction or advocacy alert. No Follow-Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. Social networks like Twitter connect us with people online who share our interests or passions about making the world a better place.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Katie Harbath of DCI who joined me on the panel “Every Question I Was too Embarrassed to Ask about Technology” said that this is one of the best resources of data when you begin to search for people to build your social media community. It’s where people go to gather news, resources and discuss issues.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009. NEW People’s Choice: Mission in Action Award: Every cause has a story. There will be major announcements, reveals, deep-dives, contests, beat poetry, and more.

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