TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. Hosting a caption contest is a great way to drive interaction. People are often very inclined to leave a comment offering their suggestion.This is a great way to create a huge amount of viral reach.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Organic posting, running contests, and incorporating social media marketing in emails are all great ways to get started on your branding journey. Run interesting Twitter polls. You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. Run a contest!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Follow Frank on Twitter. Her second book, exploring how causes can excel using Twitter, comes out in the summer of 2011.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If someone was scrolling through their social media account and came across a post from your nonprofit, would they like, comment, or share it? For instance, if you find a post sparks lots of comments and conversations, capitalize on that opportunity and consider live streaming with a Q&A.

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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. We look forward to more lively discussions and sharing of ideas about online contests.

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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

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. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Twitter - Please submit in reply to @ZeroDivideorg, with #haiku. ZD Blog - Comment on this blog post. Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. Chris then spends about 8 hours per week responding to comments an building relationships with our viewers. In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. Name: Carol Baskin. Title: CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

I have an icebreaker for workshop coming up that is Twitter on Paper. I just discovered this excellent primer to using Twitter called Tweeting for Companies 101 by Tara Hunt. My favorite section is about what to talk about on Twitter, a terrific list of what you should Tweet about. Contests (???The Type OH: ???well,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Follow them on Twitter to receive Create Change and HP Direct updates. Here's my contest. Leave a comment sharing your "Theory of Change". Be sure that you fill in your email address in the comments. Tags: contest. They also implemented a bloggers outreach campaign to do a product giveaway. Fine Blog .

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2009

Thanks to my friend Sherry Truhler at Red Apple Auctions , I found out about a cool contest for nonprofits this morning. 3banana is sponsoring the contest. Basically, you try out their online product then ask people to comment on Twitter on why your cause should win. The contest is called Share to Win.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Last April, 1Sky decided to invest a significant amount of time, energy, and resources into Twitter. We actually recognized Twitter’s potential for live blogging events, commenting on relevant issues surrounding climate legislation, and creating conversations with like-minded supporters to build a groundswell of support for our issues.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Last April, 1Sky decided to invest a significant amount of time, energy, and resources into Twitter. We actually recognized Twitter’s potential for live blogging events, commenting on relevant issues surrounding climate legislation, and creating conversations with like-minded supporters to build a groundswell of support for our issues.

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Classy

JULY 26, 2021

High engagement signals to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn that your post is quality, which means your content is pushed higher up on supporters’ newsfeeds. . Craft a powerful caption with descriptive language, and consider asking donors to leave a comment with a few reasons why they support your organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

We have to look at what the result overall is – it is not just views for the sake of views or comments and likes for the sake of comments and likes. In advance of convening on Social Media Metrics hosted by RWJF, there will be a Twitter chat on Thursday, April 18, 3-4 p.m. Join RWJF online Thursday, April 18, at 3 p.m.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Share the contest with your peers and increase your odds of winning each time you use the hashtag #nphero on Twitter. Leave a comment at www.convio.com/nphero and give a shout out to your hero for everyone to see. So what are you waiting for? Get your nomination and recognition on over at the Nonprofit Holiday Heroes page!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Twitter: There are two different apps to integrate Twitter. Twitter App automatically re-posts your tweets in your Facebook Page status. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”. Mari Smith, The Big List of Apps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The free Instagram and Vine mobile apps let you record, post, view, and comment on short videos from your mobile device. Since both apps allow you to share your video creations on other sites (such as Twitter and Facebook), Instagram and Vine videos are a low-cost and low-tech way to create and share short videos with any audience.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. TweetBeep is a good backup to capture mentions of your brand on Twitter. Backtype allows you to watch what’s being said in blog comments around the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Share the contest with your peers and increase your odds of winning each time you use the hashtag #nphero on Twitter. Leave a comment at www.convio.com/nphero and give a shout out to your hero for everyone to see. So what are you waiting for? Get your nomination and recognition on over at the Nonprofit Holiday Heroes page!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To facilitate the use of that data, the city hosted a contest to motivate the development community to make use of more than 100 types of datasets it had released — everything from aerial photographs and business licenses to parking meter information, liquor license applications, and street-sweeping routes. Have you done it yourself?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2009

Thanks to my friend Sherry Truhler at Red Apple Auctions , I found out about a cool contest for nonprofits this morning. 3banana is sponsoring the contest. Basically, you try out their online product then ask people to comment on Twitter on why your cause should win. The contest is called Share to Win.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2009

Thanks to my friend Sherry Truhler at Red Apple Auctions , I found out about a cool contest for nonprofits this morning. 3banana is sponsoring the contest. Basically, you try out their online product then ask people to comment on Twitter on why your cause should win. The contest is called Share to Win.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

And fundraisers who use Twitter along raise 10x more than those who don’t. According to our research, people who use social media increased their fundraising by up to 40%.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I’m sure there are plenty of other folks suggesting sessions … make sure to let us know in the comments. Have you ever been frightened knowing that on Friday nights the intern still has the keys to your Twitter account? We’ve even got a few more on tap … More by Blackbaud … Epic Fail!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 27, 2012

Comment on this blog post or on Tony’s , use the LinkedIn group or Facebook page or Twitter. I told Tony that I’ll take on all social media questions for listeners’ charities. What’s your question? We’re up to it! We want your questions in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. The fundraising campaign added some extra buzz, a sponsor, Ice cream maker Häagen-Dazs, willing to pay for any Twitter user who tweets out the support for the cause.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

The Twitter-owned app lets you record six-second video clips and share them with your friends on various social media networks including Vine's own internal network. TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. YouTube Capture (iOS).

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