Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 18, 2010
Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.
Tech Soup
JUNE 2, 2011
By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 It followed up on that success by creating the Petition Site the following year.
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Tech Soup
APRIL 4, 2017
The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. Don't email inactive subscribers: Only use quality email addresses; this means they should be permission based, validated, with no typo domains, with no spam traps, with no complainers, and a good fit for your target list. You can enter to win on this site.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 10, 2009
Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. nonprofit blog activism You'll build community and provide a useful information filtering service for your readers. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.
See3
JANUARY 30, 2008
They are thinking about the future and wanted to look seriously into how changes in technology will impact their activities in the future. They are thinking beyond fundraising to service delivery, health care, and many other segments of community activity for which they are responsible. Did it show up in your filter?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 12, 2006
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. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2008
Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos. This helps us be good community members and avoid issues of spamming. s annual digital photo contest. re happy to find them where they???re
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