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OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Add to the “Love, The Climate” Facebook Page with a note, a message, a photo, or a link to content that shows how fantastic the climate will be after senators have taken action by passing the Climate Bill. Live Earth will highlight the best voicemails on their website and forward the best ones to the senators to whom they’re addressed. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Social Media for Non Profits and Special Causes John Sheridan’s presentation at at Pod Camp Halifax 2009 gives an overview of social media and social networking, with plenty of non-profit examples. An Introduction to Facebook and Twitter for Nonprofits (Nathan Wright). ROI of Listening: America Red Cross Case Study (Beth Kanter).

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JULY 22, 2009

The Netroots community is built around progressive politics in America. In its first iteration, Vote Report India leveraged Co-creation by creating a platform for collectively tracking irregularities in the 2009 Indian elections. A vibrant community is built around a social object that is meaningful for its members. The Obama Girl.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . It's open to 501c3's serving U.S.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. Psychological underpinning: curiosity.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. The examples are there, too.

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MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing. Secondary: $ raised for Share Our Strength.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Ironically, this story broke right before I was going to hit the publish button on a guest post by Katherine Hutt who shared the details of their strategy for a small nonprofit, Generations of Hope, also competing for the $250,000 Pepsi prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009.

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