Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

In a summer-long contest by American Farmland Trust, nearly 30,000 Americans voted for their favorite local farmers market, and Williamsburg swept the medium category (31-55 vendors). About the Contest. According to Hoffman, the contest has been a great success and succeeded beyond their original expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement. Facebook Ladder of Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. Celebrating Birthdays is definitely part of Facebook culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. But consider the following: Networking.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disruptor: Facebook. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. Not convinced that Facebook has been a disruptor? More than 1.5

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MAY 14, 2009

Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney. Submit your success stories for our next Show Your Impact contest. Susan examines strategies for using Facebook as a part of your nonprofit's communications strategy. It's been a busy week in the TechSoup universe. Anna praises Skype's capacity as a telecommuting tool.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

You can follow Beth on Twitter at @fakeplasticfish , on the Fake Plastic Fish Facebook page , and on her personal Facebook page. Photo: My friend Eli and I at the 2009 Bay to Breakers. We won the costume contest. She is also an advisor to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and a contributing editor for BlogHer.com.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. Day 1. [.]

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

I sent out a request to my Twitter and Facebook pals for more iPhone apps for nonprofits: Paul Lamb of Man on a Mission Consulting said that Ustream recently launched an iPhone app. An iPhone app created by a company called Melodeo that streamed Christmas music for $2.99. $1 1 of the sale went to the Salvation Army (via Philanthropy.com ).

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Vicki of Zazengo shared more ways to spread the word in her Social Actions blog post, Help Promote MLK Day on Facebook + Zazengo. Enter the YouTube Contest Usaservice.org is also sponsoring a YouTube contest. Submissions are due by 11:59pm EST January 15th, 2009, so you don't have much time!

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. America’s Giving Challenge, presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications, launched on October 7, 2009. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that. This was interesting to me -- that people joined the Facebook social networking site specifically because I (Lend4Health) was there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

It’s easier to understand the culture behind tools like Facebook and Twitter when you spend some time posting your own pictures and experiences. Getting Started: You Don't Have To Be Joey Chestnut The photo above is Joey Chestnut who won the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in 2008. No downright sick in the stomach.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. And creative problem solving (from puzzles and caption contests to improve and every episode of MacGyver ever).

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Another approach — not as good for the nonprofits but maybe more acceptable to Google — would be more like the Facebook approach. Can anyone help me.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Another approach — not as good for the nonprofits but maybe more acceptable to Google — would be more like the Facebook approach. Can anyone help me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. It's open to 501c3's serving U.S. Projects working in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. Wiley is donating books to Mashable's #Stories4Good contest , a social media for social good initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. set audience. affected people.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Main | Friday Webinar: Best Practices for Email List-growth and Fundraising » Wednesday Jan 21 2009 Everything You Wanted to Know About Online Fundraising in a Bad Economy Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:06AM | by Allyson Kapin Lets be frank, daily doom and gloom reports about the economy are scary. more feasible.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2009

Alan’s presentation also highlighted MLF’s social media efforts, and how they are embracing tools like Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube to change people’s perception about homelessness. Here are a few details of the contest and read more about the campaign at www.mlfnow.org/twegg. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2009

Alan’s presentation also highlighted MLF’s social media efforts, and how they are embracing tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube to change people’s perception about homelessness. Here are a few details of the contest and read more about the campaign at www.mlfnow.org/twegg. The winner will get a Kindle 2!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work. From my son's kindergarten class.

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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. In May, 2009, Peter Dietz, founder of Social Actions , reflected on the future of online fundraising and wrote about a shift in donor expectations.

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MAY 4, 2009

Facebook As the fifth-most trafficked site in the United States, Facebook is a great social network for nonprofits to build a community and brand their campaigns. April 28, 2009 | Maureen Backman Thanks Allyson, this is a great focused list. April 28, 2009 | Joanna M. The Twitter community likes to be engaged.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The whole contest infrastructure is online - submission, discussion, refining, and sharing. Ashoka's Changemakers Project is similar in some ways - running collaborative online contests to identify and reward social entrepreneurs. AMEX writes that they have not yet planned if they will do the project in 2009.

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