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How Nonprofits Can Effectively Promote their Online Shop on Instagram and Facebook

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Shopify’s biggest selling points are that it is super mobile friendly and it easily plugs into the shop experience on Instagram and Facebook. Tag your products in Stories and Posts. Raise awareness for your Shop with a contest. Review the platform’s Promotions Guidelines so your contest is all buttoned up.

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Should We Just Blow Up Nonprofit "Vote for Me" Social Good Contests ?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I stumbled across another reason why I'd like to blow up online contests that use "vote for me" or popularity to make funding decisions. If a contest or program does not lead with social outcomes and if big money is thrown on the table, it encourages social innovation of another kind. I initially thought it was a good idea.

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Scanning for Good – How Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes

NetWits

Before I show you some easy ways to generate QR codes, here are some examples of how nonprofits are using them: Be Rare Contest, South Carolina Aquarium. They created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. This was an easy way to get people engaged and provided a simple way to take action.

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Nonprofits of the Month :: June 2010 :: Beyond Disasterous

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook: Mobile Baykeeper. BP Logo Redesign Contest. Tags: Nonprofits of the Month. Please follow, friend, subscribe and like: Twitter: International Bird Rescue Research Center. YouTube: Environmental Defense Fund. MySpace: Greenpeace. Flickr: SkyTruth. Wikipedia :: Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Big Cat Rescue

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e, a mobile website, texting, mobile Apps, text-to-give, etc.? Tags: Social Media The Book. Book Tour ? ?

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Great reads from around the web on January 15th

Amy Sample Ward

" » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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