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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. We’ve pledged to award more than $20 million to support innovative ideas that move communities forward.
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 15, 2010
I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2010
Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
In the past, more than 20 grants have been awarded for each challenge. The contest is open to anyone — including journalists, local election officials, civic technologists, academics, businesses, nonprofits, governments, and individuals. Just go to newschallenge.org to explain your idea during the application period.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 13, 2007
Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 6, 2008
Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. We awarded $5000 to each exhibit design that was translated to real life. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 16, 2010
The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst.
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