Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. View more presentations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest. Here are the top 10. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Institute for Social Ecology : "A ten-day program for artists, performers, activists, and media makers who wish to create and examine socially engaged art and media projects."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 15) Brand design contests. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1,

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can up the ante by building your party around a costume contest and encouraging attendees to get sponsorships for their participation. Dance-a-Thon You and your staff work tirelessly to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space.

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JUNE 9, 2021

As life is turning somewhat back to normal, what will fundraising events look like in a post-COVID world? For instance, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity hosted a wildly successful Gingerbread Home Build contest, bringing in 132% over their goal. Leverage this feeling with a holiday-themed peer-to-peer campaign.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Would you like to change a life in 2016? Your year-end gift helps others find life after cancer. 3 days left to change a life. Still a Little Time for a Life-Saving, Tax-Deductible Gift. VIDEO: ‘Life of Pi’ Tiger Owner Caught Viciously Whipping Young Tiger. As you requested. Countdown for our children.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

But the issues raised and the ideal presented are still highly contested today. I'm enamored of the superstar as well, and wrote about it at length in this post about exhibitions that change your life.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Internet and the Web are changing every institution and impacting every aspect of life. In San Diego, they're throwing a dance party and featuring a VJ/video performance artist who will mash up the OneWebDay logo with compelling imagery. Unfortunately, these issues rarely break through the noise barrier.

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