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September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

NTEN

Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans.

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Does your nonprofit, like this meat, need some help?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. All of the application information can be found here. Flickr photo by zen???

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Hold and participate in online contests, challenges, blog carnivals and memes. Place an AddThis or ShareThis button on the top of the blog.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

They just finished a YouTube video contest. They even created a Facebook application. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Rather than build our own photo-sharing application, why don???t This helps us be good community members and avoid issues of spamming.