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Guest Post by Katherine Hutt: A Small Nonprofit's Strategy for Pepsi Refresh Contest

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Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Tags: contest crowdsourcing. Photo: Jim Harrison.

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Deconstructing An Angry Crowd: What Can We Learn?

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Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

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Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How networked nonprofits use twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Fundraising Roundup

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billion (almost 5%) according the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined.

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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

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While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. Ideas can be submitted and commented on until July 13, 2010. Meyer’s personal philanthropy and is not affiliated with Fred Meyer Inc.,

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

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A spreadsheet with all of the websites, Facebook page URLs and Twitter handles of all our partners was useful whenever we wanted to mention them in a message, and for our social media volunteers at SocialNicole.com and Minnesota Philanthropy Partners who were pre-formatting sponsorship and partner thank you posts for the day of the event.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment restr » Blog Archiv » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories [.] Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?