Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. That will come later.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Right now, they're using the big, round number to try to reach even more folks: They have a custom landing tab on Facebook for the campaign, tied to a contest: they're asking their fans to share their pets' stories and photos. Their CEO shot a video and blogged about the milestone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Press mentions. How to lists.

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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. Looking forward to exploring all these topics in the session today and in future blog posts!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

By now, most of you have probably heard that our DataMasher application won Apps for America 2 via our press release or our celebratory tweets. But the real winners are the American people who thanks to these contest entrants, have better access and understanding of these valuable data. Apparently, we won by only 12 votes!

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

This person told me that the behind-the-scenes phone calls and pressures, public meetings and traditional press were still how they did their work — and quite successfully. And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. Unfortunately, you can't read the press release I saw; it isn't on their website anymore. They have a MySpace page , complete with music from the Talking Heads, and a blog (though it's not RSS-friendly). And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest.

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See3

MAY 21, 2007

For those of you who are blogging, one key is longevity. I recently passed my one-year blogging anniversary. As I look at many interesting blogs I realize that it’s never too late to start. Thanks for your comments about Guy’s keynoting and the link to his blog! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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See3

JANUARY 7, 2008

From the press release : The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced today that it has made a significant investment in a four-part documentary series about religion in the U.S. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Much of that engagement will happen online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. 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. Please blog amoung yourselves." Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? Media coverage - Tv, blogs, newspapers Was it worth it? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. s choice award.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Instead of multiple phone calls back and forth, they can just enter their information on your online form and press “submit.” This is a type of event where donors pay a fee to be a part of a contest where the “last person standing” receives some sort of prize. Leverages common tools. Host a virtual endurance event! Bingo Night.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

In case you hadn't heard , Convio is sponsoring 50 NTEN memberships to nonprofits nominated in their NPHero contest. Peter Campbell writes a compelling post on the Idealware blog about the updated metrics that GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and other organizations recently announced. Jordan Viator explains. Thanks, Convio!

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Step 2: Write a pitch or a press release. Convert your press release to a PDF. Create a media list of people to send your pitch or press release. See what types of stories they cover.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

You can pick up a button or badge (like the one above) on the Peace Primary site to promote the contest on your blog, web site or email. Brown-eyed Girl voted and posted an, "I Voted for Peace" badge on her blog. Wendy is spreading the word for people to vote for the Genocide Intervention Network through her MySpace blog.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

It is good to give the group time to flesh out its most pressing issues—ideally, before those issues become too urgent. Some boards create team-based contests to see who can bring the most guests to the annual event, while others are lucky enough to have recruited a candidate who keeps the group laughing regularly. Decision points.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2007

I get LOTS of emails and press release from people asking me to write about the good work their doing. Their campaign is one of 10 finalists in Toyota's Engines of Change Power of Sport contest. Along the way we documented our journey on our blog: www.tritoendhomelessness.blogspot.com The campaign has been a great success!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Always Be Commenting – This wisdom comes from Guy Kawasaki and while it isn’t hot off the press, it still holds true as we noticed in the examples above. It does have a Star Wars theme, but he created a fun caption contest. Here are some tips for games and giveaway contests on Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

GivingTuesday.org also has comprehensive toolkits that include tools such as press release templates and mayoral proclamations. Resources: Blackbaud’s Giving Tuesday site has a whole host of resources to help you be successful such as the toolkit, a webinar series, podcasts, blog articles and giving trends data.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Press Play Partner with local media outlets, radio stations, or community newspapers to spread the word. Press releases, interviews, and event listings can be your winning strokes. Engage your audience with eye-catching graphics, behind-the-scenes peeks, and contests to generate excitement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The listening as a first step is familiar - it's free market research, it's brand monitoring, it's an analysis of press mentions. Getting Started: You Don't Have To Be Joey Chestnut The photo above is Joey Chestnut who won the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in 2008. I needed to do that for myself!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. it.org.uk ???real???

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Taking time to map out how your email marketing fits in with these other methods, such as blog posts or social media, makes for a more robust communications plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I've always wondered whether or not when someone makes a gazillion dollars on one of my photos or my blog posts, will I be sorry? Nancy White picked up on it and blogged it.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. We also utilized our blog to get more people informed about Facebook Causes. Sometimes more! How many approx.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. We also utilized our blog to get more people informed about Facebook Causes. Sometimes more! How many approx.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

19 Oct 2007 Non-Profit Tech Blog » Convio Facebook App not recommended for use right now [.] 20 Oct 2007 Allan Benamer Michael, The difference in my approach is that I speak for IT directors on my blog. It’s disappointing and the App certainly needs more press. Read the rest of this great post here [.]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ve heard my various sagas around using Linux on the desktop. at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 I migrated to making it my primary desktop about a year ago. at 9:04 pm I agree with your assessment.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

They combine putting and chipping contests with silent and live auctions, dinner, an open bar, and the opportunity to win a ton of fun prizes, all while raising money for their mission. May the 4th Be With You Costume Contest. A May the 4th Be With You Costume Contest is perfect for a completely virtual, social media-focused campaign.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The secret of reality TV’s success is the viewer’s involvement with the ‘journey’ of the contestants. We also sent out a weekly press release about the new countdown and announced the new number one on Twitter. Philippa will be checking in to answer any questions you might have in the comments here on the blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Ensure that an e-newsletter opt-in form is prominently featured on your homepage, on every page of your website, on your blog home page, and in every blog post. Create sidebar graphics for your blog and call-to-action images to promote your crowdfunding campaigns on mobile and social media. Chapter 5: Online Fundaising.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Competition: This is an event where you gather participants to compete against each other in some sort of contest. It could be a charity 5k, a pie-eating contest, or a battle of the bands. You may also want to add your press release to the media kit section of your nonprofit’s websit e. Let people know! Let people know.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. Even creating press releases about data may be useful. Events are press-worthy and should have a press release to go with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. The results for this week’s GivingTuesday 2018 have been reported. Why did they release $7 million match all at once?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

A website that is dated and contains old news and blog posts signals to supporters that your organization doesn’t have the time to keep up with your supporters online— or even worse, that your nonprofit is no longer running. One of our favorite ways to create and share content regularly is blogging. Update your website.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

They both use the MySpace blog, which reminds us again to speak to the community where they are, don’t try and drag them over to your main blog. Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. Carie opened with an intro to social media. Oxfam now has a very nice custom page.

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