AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Gamification takes the traditional elements of games, gaming, and competition and applies them to non-gaming, non-competitive applications, and scenarios. They would likely be happy to donate a gift of some sort or furnish additional funds to you for the right to put their name on the contest. Choose Incentives.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

"A recent Reuter’s article: Top Ten Trends in Sustainable Business, focuses on the best trends in “green business,&# I’m struck by how many of the points are applicable to sustainable social media. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Kate was selected from over 1500 applicants based on a one-minute video, an essay, and an application form. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Gamification takes the traditional elements of games, gaming, and competition and applies them to non-gaming, non-competitive applications and scenarios. It is likely that they would be happy to donate a gift of some sort or furnish additional funds to you for the rights to put their name on the contest. Choose Incentives.

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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. " I agree.

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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

APRIL 17, 2009

" Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!) open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. " Share Actions | Social Actions - Check out all of the great Social Actions Change the Web Challenge applications!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

Change the Web Challenge: Finalists Announced - I'm really excited about the 24 Finalists in the Change the Web Challenge - this Challenge called for new applications that use Social Actions' API which aggregates and surfaces all kinds of actionable opportunities from around the web. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Check them out!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans. Then we switched topics to Twitter.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Gamification takes the traditional elements of games, gaming, and competition and applies them to non-gaming, non-competitive applications, and scenarios. It is likely that they would be happy to donate a gift of some sort or furnish additional funds to you for the rights to put their name on the contest. Choose Incentives.

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Virtual Poll Game Sponsor 59

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Here is a copy of the application narrative; you can read it and vote for me on the competition site here. Leave a comment on the application here. Please support me by voting and commenting here. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. For others, the concept of ???public public information???

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" > Learn more about the contest at [link]. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. " Duh: the NTEN community!

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

US Agency for International Development has run an interesting contest to identify innovative ideas in mobile computing for international development. Tags: Technology. They got some interesting nominations and have identified the top three winners : * Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Third, we're participating in the Apps for America Contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The goal of the contest is to create new applications using data from Sunlight and its partners to make Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent. Tags: Events. Wish us luck! Let us know in the comments.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

If you are eligible and willing to provide the required information, start your application here. If you use a slightly different name on your bank account, Facebook will kick your application out. Share the campaign to your personal Facebook profile and tag a few friends to make sure they see the posts. Ask me how I know!).

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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. Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Because data is powerful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

” So, I immediately jumped to Chapter 6, “Enhancing Your Facebook Page with Applications.” Sweepstakes Applet: If you considering running a contest, GOSO’s Sweepstakes applet makes it easy to manage. When I asked my fans for suggestion, this app was frequently suggested.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I can't think of a story that better illustrates this concept than that of the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati, one of the winners of our Microsoft Show Your Impact contest. An organization that's ready for a disaster is also ready for a new opportunity to expand its impact when a need arises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

There are a couple of useful business applications such as airplane boarding passes. For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. Nonprofit Tech2.0

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South Carolina San Francisco Chad Museum 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Foundation application? Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. It isn??????t How-To Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

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. After all ideas are in, MMT will use them to craft a Request for Proposals, inviting applications to make a case for funding from the $1 million.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

We will also name the winner of the webinar series storytelling contest. Once again, your organization faces a short deadline and needs to come up with an application or campaign in record time. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. Level: Beginner. Lead: Michaela Hackner and Roger Burks. Do You Want Fries With That?:

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest recognizes software developers who create open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use. Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge. Tags: 09NTC awards NPTech NTEN.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This is a huge opportunity that will help make it even easier for third parties to create valuable applications to aggregate, organize, and visualize government data. Tags: Government. But that is a topic for another day, and another post. Stay tuned.

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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. ET, participants can compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. and Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

According to Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery who forwarded the trailer link to me, the selection process for contestants looks at how many people view the applicants' trailers. Tags: privatization rights water. I encourage you to watch and pass on the link to this important film, not only to help K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Second, start a cause by clicking "Start a Cause" under "Find Causes" when you're in the Causes application. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. If someone has already started a cause benefiting your organization, get in touch with them and build a relationship.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. To participate in this contest, you need to submit your idea on JustMeans and fill out the full grant proposal from Green Mountain Coffee. Learn more and get started now! March 28th – April 3rd: Public comments on ideas.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. They even created a Facebook application. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest.

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