Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits!

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AUGUST 21, 2009

" GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes. They provided social media tools to the vying nonprofits and provided $9000 in prizes to the organization that raised the most money.

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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. … Read More

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. .&# Um, Matt, Sourceforge has been basically irrelevant for years, since people started moving their projects off of that platform, and onto their own platforms. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Roadmap for Creating Successful Flash Video where Colin Carpenter and Lori Pottinger of International Rivers talk about using Adobe digital video tools to tell stories and get messages across. Evergreen and International Rivers were runners-up in the 2008 Show Your Impact contest.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney. Submit your success stories for our next Show Your Impact contest. From the TechSoup vault: Eight Tools to Keep Your Team Connected and A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. Anna praises Skype's capacity as a telecommuting tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool.

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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. What’s new? What works?

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Forum One

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. Online contests are not completely new, to be sure. Tags: Influence Collaboration Online Community Tools & Software.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. In April 2009, the Washington Post published a critique of Facebook Causes on the basis that it wasn't an effective tool for raising money. and Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

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. Crowdrise was a good tool, but certainly not perfect: it didn’t allow for $1 donations, as I had wished.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day. 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. It was an amazing day of giving for our state—$16.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 Linux has made huge usability strides in the past few years, as has open source software in general, so I think the future is still bright. { at 7:18 pm { 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 jack 06.24.08

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Here's how the Red Cross handbook states it: Step 1: Get Social Media Savvy Initiate personal social media use: Explore the tools you’d like to adopt by using them in your personal life first. It’s easier to understand the culture behind tools like Facebook and Twitter when you spend some time posting your own pictures and experiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. But, in the scheme of things, the latter topic is far more important in the long run to the more than 1 million nonprofits out there than how to use a web tool.

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

There was an AIM chat program, a sales-force automation tool, and so on, all good-looking and natural-feeling on the touch screen. recorded first by johngibbs on 2009-01-09→ iPhone 2.0 – Bigger Than Sliced Tomatoes [.] 17 Jan 2009 See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why I Use Twitter [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2009. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Joe, what you are missing are the contest platforms,” said Michael. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People. Disruptor: Kickstarter. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Even ArtPrize , the "radically open" art festival that was judged last year by public vote alone, will incorporate a juried contest as well this year. What tools do we use? And now, at the Walker Art Center, there's 50/50 , an upcoming print show in which half the prints will be chosen by the public, half by curators.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" March 27, 2008 | Michael Hoffman There are so many suggestions online for valuing email addresses.

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MARCH 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" March 27, 2008 | Michael Hoffman There are so many suggestions online for valuing email addresses.

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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. I remember around the beginning of 2009, when I started working on Lend4Health full-time, some of my Twitter followers made loans on Lend4Health.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

So if you have different initiatives going on, you can’t create different applications for each using this tool. Unfortunately, you can only run one Facebook app at a time using the Convio tool. [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Your points: 1. Convio is an ASP.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Mark Rovner’s Best Tips To Boost Your Online Fundraising Program in 2009 Don’t stop asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. picked tools. picked tools. WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS. Social media tools made it easy. CHOOSE the TOOLS. What are my tools? How Do You Measure Success: Dollars or Doggie Treats? set goals: decrease number of incoming media calls. set audience. set audience.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2009

Alan’s message is simple - having a strategy, using the right tools and focusing on the fundamentals can make all the difference. 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.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2009

Alan’s message is simple - having a strategy, using the right tools and focusing on the fundamentals can make all the difference. 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.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD), which provided specific guidance on fulfilling the vision set forth in the January memorandum. Interactive Rich Media Learning Tool for Historical Benefit Info.

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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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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

A more recent text message campaign, called Hookup , was launched in April 2009 with the State of California and the California Family Health Council , said ISIS executive director Deb Levine. " In the first 25 weeks, the service had 4,500 inquiries, 2,500 of which led to more information and referrals.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" May 23, 2009 | Francesco Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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MAY 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" All great questions! Consider it like an interactive 24-hour news cycle.

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Forum One

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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