Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

What started in 2012 has exploded into the biggest giving day of the year, inspiring hundreds of millions of people worldwide to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. million people worldwide participated in Giving Tuesday and $2.47 Consider offering volunteer opportunities and other ways people can get involved with your cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Most of the perils that big cats face are the result of exploiters banking on the fact that people are mesmerized by tigers and want to touch them. Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? The site currently has 1.6

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

What started in 2012 has exploded into the biggest giving day of the year, inspiring hundreds of millions of people worldwide to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. million people worldwide participated in Giving Tuesday and $2.47 Have a clear call-to-action with an inspiring ask. Last year approximately 34.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The Case Foundation has just launched the " Change Begins With Me " contest. It won't help if people "over-think" this or make too much of this, but we are asking for real commitments. Tags: promotion. how might you make a change in your community, neighborhood, or the world. Need some motivation? What's your idea?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What a passionate, amazing group of people who are running these small and mid-sized nonprofits, many in remote and rural wilderness locations in the US. I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. Instagram Contests and Hashtags. The Hold A Sign Meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. The value of the tool grows as people value the tool and add more content.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

" Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!) " Help seeking behaviour in young adults - NFPSynergy Report - nfSynergy's "newest free report takes an in-depth look at what young people's needs are and how they seek help. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. young people???,

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See3

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is a one-of-a-kind online competition that aims to inspire third-party developers to build innovative tools that make it easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. See the slideshow below for details about the contest (hint: there are exciting prizes!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

92% of donors were “strong ties” people I knew and had a relationship with online/offline – most were professional colleagues and some friends from high school — all Facebook friends. 8% of donors were “weak ties” or people that I know online only who may read my blog, follow me on Twitter or Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. Details are here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A greater focus on campaign core priorities: the story, the message, the call to action. The people who work inside non-profits are some of the funniest people I know, but the non-profits they work for are, um, not funny. No contest. He’s a muppet of action. Right now we all suck at it. He cares.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Give shoutouts to your top donors from the virtual event across your social media accounts, and be sure to tag them as you go. People want to be recognized. Keep the momentum going and host a surprise giveaway across social media with your sponsor by encouraging your community to engage in photo contests. Fundraiser results.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Enter our contest! Read this post , take two simple actions, and complete a quick survey! Part 1 of this series listed the five actions we recommend that you take to reduce the power use of your computer. Part 2 and Part 3 explained in more detail how you could easily complete four cost-saving actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Crowdsourcing consists of principles, processes and platforms to get things done and usually involves an open call to a group of people online – the “crowd.” There are three main types of crowdsourcing: Work, Input and Action. Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. The videos would be submitted into a contest, and the winning submission would be posted on their MySpace page and featured in a film festival. Why wasn't this a huge success like the Oreo Jingle contest ?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). social actions mashup. Tags: NPTech change the web NTEN web2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

So many people responded, like Michelle Moon of the Tenement and Bruce Wyman of USD-Mach Design Consulting. Can we make a giant linked thread of people in this field? I’m not talking about a popularity contest. We’re in a position, largely due to social, where we can make collective action happen every day on social media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

We're having a contest to encourage you to reduce your computer's energy comsumption. Read this post, take two simple actions, complete a quick survey, and you'll be eligible to win! It's not always easy to get a significant number of individuals to take these easy actions, but we can reach more people with your help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. First, it felt like we were going to do battle.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. Need some inspiration?

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Care2

MARCH 31, 2010

Or to vote for you in a contest? Care2 is social action network of more than 12 million civically engaged people who want to make a difference by supporting the issues and causes they care about. Tags: Care2 Webinars. Drive a ton of “do-gooders&# to your website? Care2 101 Webinar Presentation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Both services are heavily used by people under 35, so if your organization wants to connect with younger audiences, these apps are a great way to do it. You can add hashtags and location tags to make your photos even more searchable. Aaron Bramley: Teeny Tiny Stop Action Video. Vine is the other popular short video tool.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

When Giving Tuesday started six years ago, it was about sparking a movement—giving people and organizations a day specifically dedicated to giving back. People are motivated. Is your campaign simply about raising money, or are there actions you want your supporters to take like donate clothing, sign a petition, or make a pledge?

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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. In the past, the government might have hired and managed people to try to find solutions the these problems. Since 2004 (or earlier!),

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector. at ARC, listening has been the core value of our last three year’s of social media (mentioned online over 400 times a day), learn what people want and expect from us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful! Because data is powerful!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

While we know foundation resources alone are by no means sufficient to solve our region’s significant challenges, we believe that opportunities exist for MMT to jumpstart actions that will lead us to a brighter future,” Forbes said. “We Tags: challenge collaboration competition foundation innovation oregon philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV. Christian Canter is doing this work as a staff person with an established nonprofit that is using social media. .&# Mark is an expert at using social media to connect his work on the ground with a broader network of people and organizations who share his goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Its true impact has yet to be measured, but Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and every other social media platform have already caused a revelation in how people want to communicate. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers.

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