Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. Tags: contest fundraising2.0 Here's how it is described : The Inbound Marketing Challenge. x (Total Retweets).

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JUNE 9, 2010

NTEN set up an event area on Slideshare for the NTC 2010. Some events have set up branded channels, like the Bar Camp Channel. (5) National Wildlife Federation uses Slideshare for its presentations, but also to promote the winners of their photo contests. 5) Tool For Networked Nonprofits To Share Draft Documents and Get Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Disruptive Model: Contest Crowdfunding. Joe, what you are missing are the contest platforms,” said Michael. A key driver of donations was Facebook, where users uploaded 2.4 million challenge videos. Co-Disruptor: Twitter. Disruptor: GoFundMe. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. Holly Ross, NTEN, Four Lessons Learned About Social Media in 2010. When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? Happy New Year!

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JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. A year later, I competed in the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Contest, coming in first place.

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MARCH 1, 2010

On Saturday, I was delighted to have an opportunity to attend and speak at the SexTech 2010 Conference. Geoff Livingston , my business partner at Zoetica , moderated the session which was called "Social Media Rockstars: Widgets, Apps, Contests, and More. Sex::Tech 2010 Presentation View more presentations from Skild.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2009

For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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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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APRIL 21, 2010

Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program. Take for example contests. Contests have been a marketing tactic for years. The Case Foundation's pioneering work in online challenges has been replicated by many in the philanthropic sector and now contests.

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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. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events? What is important to take into 2010?

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