Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Leave a comment with a url!

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

” So, I immediately jumped to Chapter 6, “Enhancing Your Facebook Page with Applications.” Sweepstakes Applet: If you considering running a contest, GOSO’s Sweepstakes applet makes it easy to manage. Please share in the comments and you could win a copy of John’s book.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. These applications, and others, add a powerful philanthropic layer to Facebook.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! Foundation application? Use online tools to gather data from across sectors. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences. Foundation application? Foundation application?

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And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. Bafoussam, Cameroon: Adobe Spark: A Great Tool for Digital Story Makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! 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. is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Before you get started, you need to make sure your organization (and organizational leadership) understands that Facebook, like Twitter and all the rest, are just tools. Hold contests. And by all means, when people comment on your Page's posts, respond! Let us know in the comments if you've seen others.). Set the Stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Measuring Input. Measuring Input can be a little more nebulous. Is different better?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. it.org.uk ???real???

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He made an engaging presentation, the highlight of which was his demo of their Facebook application. They have also built connections to Flickr, a Plaxo tool for importing contacts and Salesforce. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. A few comments over at Kikono too. For me, the web and 2.0

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How many people were involved with LWB on the contest? That went to several thousand supporters.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How many people were involved with LWB on the contest? That went to several thousand supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Leave a comment on a post. Is my perspective already shared in the comments?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. They even created a Facebook application. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. A recording of your , the image on your screen, and some additional elements, screencasts are perfect for explaining how-to's for your applications and other specific, tactical uses. Overview of the tools needed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like. the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 at 7:18 pm { 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 jack 06.24.08 Linux has made huge usability strides in the past few years, as has open source software in general, so I think the future is still bright. { 8 Pete 06.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that. My email signature (which I use when posting personal questions and comments on autism-related Yahoo groups) includes all of these channels as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. applications have changed the rules of online community. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. Our Flickr photo contest. but wouldn???t

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Interactive Rich Media Learning Tool for Historical Benefit Info. Vote for this Idea]. Social Security Administration. income, age, etc.). Vote for this Idea].

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. And they opened up their own development tools to the developers. Forbes, Twitter, Washington Post… are among the 70 companies that developed applications in time for the announcement.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « See3 Releases Their Guide to Online Video.as

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Clicky is essential for short-term campaigns because it provides minute-by-minute visitor information, whereas most analytics tools only show traffic daily. We used bit.ly (to track viral spread), Google Analytics (for goal conversions), Paypal audit accounts (to see donation amounts) and Clicky (for real-time web analytics.)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Personalized Healing and Support Plan - Elaine Walters Online research-informed health and wellness assessment and planning tool for people who have experienced adversity and trauma. Want to learn more?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " The new JustGiving Facebook app is here « JustGiving blog – JustGiving has a new facebook application out! I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

James Young talked about how nonprofits are using these tools for campaigns , Randi Zuckerberg gave an overview of Facebook and nonprofit activity and Scott Goodstein shared his experience from the Obama Campaign. Twitter comments included: @Katrinskaya : #socialgood panel. The panel format was conversational. Unicef's Rapid SMS.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

So it's a good time to take a look at how people are using online tools and tactics to influence the reform discussion. A number of applications have been developed to organize causes on Facebook. In this case, a site is running a contest to caption this poster opposing Obama's plan. Share them in the comments!

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