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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The room was mostly filled with people from nonprofit organizations, some of whom had entered contests and others wanting to learn best practices. I did a quick icebreaker asking folks in the room to share two words — what comes to mind when you think about these online contests for nonprofits?

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How Arts Organizations Are Engaging Community Online

Tech Soup

Severn spearheaded a new marketing initiative for the San Francisco Ballet that used social media to grow audiences through a series of contests. Using Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Facebook, and WordPress, she cross-promoted The Nutcracker by offering special seats to contest winners.

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Getting Closer to a Brand New Blogging Feeling - Thanks to Liz Strauss, Blog Design Studio, and Chris Brogan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I submitted it as an entry in Liz Strauss's Brand New Blogging Feeling Contest. But, I was one of the 50 lucky contest winners -- so now I have a copy of Liz???s s excellent eBook and a premium WordPress theme from Blog Design Studio. But I haven't done anything.

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. The key here is that collaboration between nonprofit needs and application developers that's for all applications not just Facebook. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Win Cash Monies for Changing the World

NTEN

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). The " Change the Web Challenge " will give away more than $10,000 in prizes.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. .&# Um, Matt, Sourceforge has been basically irrelevant for years, since people started moving their projects off of that platform, and onto their own platforms. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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