Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I put the call out for some case studies and Carie Lewis, the HSUS, Social Media Rock Star, took the time to share her story about the success and challenges of LOLseal s. What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? Last week, the WeAreMedia project discussed and built Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

For me, the two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. Case Studies. For the case studies, use the slides above and scroll through.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks. You can download the paper directly here.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2010

It was done through a series of blog posts called AGC Conversational Case Studies and encouraged the public to weigh in via comments to the blog posts, live CaseSoup video discussions, and Twitter. You find the report, blog posts, and archived videos over at the Case Foundation site here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The authors based the book on their decades of combined experience working with nonprofits, and on in-depth case studies of eleven visionary organizations. In doing so, a nonprofit can rise above the competitive fray to more effectively reach stakeholders and make a significant impact on the communities they serve.

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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 ??? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. Also helps for communicating with UGC contestants and winners. s choice award.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech events case studies training crowdsourcing.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Not the ones with the fake contests and contrived conflicts, but the ones that pit you against the weather, the wildlife, and the natural environment. It’s just the contestants against the hard, cruel world, and it either brings out the best or the worst in people. Check out this case study on grant management best practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

—– I’ve recently shared a couple interviews exploring two case studies of really successful online fundraising campaigns: SXSW4Japan Raises Over $120,000 and $100,000 in Three Days with #TeamAutism. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider devoting a specific part of the event to the VIP, such as a hole-in-one contest hosted by them or a signed raffle prize or auction item donated by them. Perhaps in exchange for promoting your tournament on their socials and appearing at the event, they receive a complimentary team registration or two. Tap into your networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2011

There is also a detailed section about adding an online component. Joe has been blogging about this topic for a long time, so book is filled with case studies from the nonprofit and for-profit sector about lessons learned from partnerships. It also covers how to use sites like Quora and Online Contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed! And they have done it using $25 and $50 donors. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. The Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Instagram Contests and Hashtags. As part of my plenary session, I did a “living case study” where I called a member of the audience, The Native Fish Society to share their story about how they used an Instagram to help save fish by taking a strategic approach and applying “POST” framework.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

This interactive panel will showcase nonprofit case studies about advanced social media campaigns with multi-channel marketing strategies linked to CRM services. We need you thumbs UP vote. Here’s a few session to get you started. Let the voting begin … Making Social Media Measurement Sexy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

They’ve increased their fan base by 4 times or over 400 now – and the odds are good that there will be a truckload of food delivered to the Food Bank on October 4th. What’s nice about this approach is that it isn’t a contest and the only “winners&# are the people who are served by the Food Bank.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Authors Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak-Leonard pack a lot into 40 pages--an argument for the rise of active arts engagement, a framework for thinking about ways to actively involve audiences, and lots of case studies. Excellent case studies, especially from the performing arts sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

It was fun to feature local participants as living case studies. Here’s an example from the Food Bank of Monterey County , a Lucile and David Packard Grantee that I’m coaching this year. The second session, a month later, was focused on social media strategy to support the overall communications strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The frameworks and tips we outlined were field tested in real-time as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation with 60 of their grantees who participated in a peer learning/focuss group and contributed many of the case studies. The book also has a social good purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Next, Danielle Brigida gave a case study about how NWF uses Twitter. Judy Chang presented an overview of PayPal’s contests, including its Regift the Fruitcake. ( I also learned about their giving app ). We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

" Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!) The report was commissioned by the Vodafone Foundation and is packed with useful case studies and supporting data. open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. See the case-study here. Voting's open till Monday!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Art and Social Media: Case Studies. Severn spearheaded a new marketing initiative for the San Francisco Ballet that used social media to grow audiences through a series of contests. Dan Meager, director of marketing at Diablo Ballet in Walnut Creek, CA. Knowing who the audience was for each platform proved to be effective.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Hold a contest per reposting or re-tweeting your event. Give them access to the presentation slides and any whitepapers or case studies referenced in the webinar. Finish the webinar with a case study verses a pitch; it is softer and more effective.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Their recent experiments with the exhibition Road Trip provides a useful case study of a mid-sized institution, a simple project, and some surprising results. After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest. Here's what they did. Projects.

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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. Andrew Cohen (@ andrewjcohen ) will be among the many attendees.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine have documented some of the small organizations who used social media exceedingly well during the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. It only enters one social media contest a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

Chad Norman shares a post of some interesting nonprofit examples , including one from the South Carolina Aquarium that created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing. Nonprofit Tech2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study. Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

I asked him afterwards if he knew of any case studies or saw any potential for using LinkedIn for Good, which launched last year with much buzz but seems like nothing but tumbleweeds rolling by since. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross gave her case study on Project Listen. Makes sense. Now here is my criticism of all Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2012

Through our multigenerational research and case studies with clients, and other testing, we have pretty definitive proof that individuals expect us to speak to them in a coordinated fashion in each of the channels they prefer. The other transmedia session told a similar story of whatBravo did with the Top Chef series and contest.

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

This case study will explore how the AGS translated this simple question into a campaign for celebrating enthusiasm, spotlighting AGS leadership, and raising funds for our foundation (all with little-to-no budget). The questions will test the knowledge and educate both contestants and audience members alike.

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