Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. You can add hashtags and location tags to make your photos even more searchable. Vine is the other popular short video tool. Storymakers 2014.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re gearing up to host a fundraiser, you might be scrambling to find the right marketing tactics to engage your audience. Review additional social media materials: Go over all social media guidelines, including hashtags they should use, accounts they should tag, links to include, and any other relevant details. Let’s begin.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: Gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform. Will your gamification highlight your event sponsors?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Before I show you some easy ways to generate QR codes, here are some examples of how nonprofits are using them: Be Rare Contest, South Carolina Aquarium. They created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. Happy scanning! Is your nonprofit already using QR codes?

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform. Know Your Goals.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Social media can be an extremely effective way to reach new audiences for your nonprofit and secure more donations for your cause. Incentivize engagement by hosting a giveaway or other fun contest just for new followers on your platform of choice. But what about cultivating relationships with existing donors? online donor engagement.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

Aside from increasing engagement from your virtual audience, gamification can: Increase sponsor engagement: gamification creates more naming opportunities for sponsors. Increase data collection: Event gamification requires the audience to interact with the event app or platform. Know Your Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Instagram Contests and Hashtags. As part of my plenary session, I did a “living case study” where I called a member of the audience, The Native Fish Society to share their story about how they used an Instagram to help save fish by taking a strategic approach and applying “POST” framework.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

While waiting for approval, go ahead and work on building up your Facebook audience. Choose the amount for your fundraiser that makes sense given the size of your Facebook audience, and then choose a compelling need that fits that amount. Do what works best for your audience, but shorter is better. Ask me how I know!).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Even ArtPrize , the "radically open" art festival that was judged last year by public vote alone, will incorporate a juried contest as well this year. This isn't a direct "audience versus expert" comparison. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 There's a sexiness to the perception of divergence between expert and public opinion.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

Next, think about businesses that have a particularly vested interest in your event’s audience. Give sponsor shoutouts (be sure to tag their accounts) on all your social channels for additional sponsor visibility and engagement. This could be a standalone package or built into your title or presenting sponsorship. Use social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The content we presented went from high level overview to on the ground practice, with each chunk punctuated with an interactive exercise with the audience that allowed them to share insights with another people in the room. We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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CauseVox

MAY 3, 2021

You can provide this for them by knowing your audience, having sponsor perks that get their logo and name out there, and details about the reach of your event. Organizations interested in your audience: this is where you’re likely to find new sponsors. Think about the type of audience you have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When I was in Alaska, I asked Mary D Barber what nonprofit did the best job of engaging its audience on Facebook consistently? When I examined their page, I noticed they engage with audience before, during, and after shows. . Tags: Case Studies Engagement Facebook. She pointed to the Anchorage Concert Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

What’s nice about this approach is that it isn’t a contest and the only “winners” are the people who are served by the Food Bank. Tags: Training Design. Community Foundation of Monterey. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a [.].

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. Nonprofit Tech2.0 blog offers a laundry list of possible ways to use this new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. factor right with their target audiences. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. For others, the concept of ???public

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Volunteer t-shirts are also a great way to promote your volunteer program to a larger audience. You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. You can make individual mason jars for each volunteer and tag the jars with their names to personalize them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

A big time-saver, but may be boring for your audience if use Twitter a lot, or if your Twitter content is different from your FB page focus. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So it's important to give your audience a heads up that you'll be participating in #GivingTuesday, so you can share your goals and get them on board. Are you offering rewards or hosting a sweeps or contest? Here are five easy ways to make that happen: 1. Give a Sneak Peek. Head to the Water Cooler.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" Take for example the webinar I did recently for TechSoup's audience on the best assignments for online volunteers. And the numbers always change. The results: Yes: 32% No: 68%.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

That it’s better to offend one person and electrify your core audience than to bore everyone to tears – which is what most non-profits do. No contest. Tags: 10NTC E-mail mark rovner NPTech Social Media Web Sites Communications. What's the one thing you want attendees to remember from your session? He’s a muppet of action.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

There’s been an exciting development in online collaboration this month with GSA’s launch of Challenge.gov – a platform for Federal agencies to conduct challenges and contests. Online contests are not completely new, to be sure. Tags: Influence Collaboration Online Community Tools & Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. They are different depending on the audience and goals. And remember, Objective, audience, strategy and link to your metric. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals. But do me a favor, please.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Flickr photo contest. Tags: askbritt.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. Check out the winners of SlideRocket's Nonprofit Presentation Contest for great examples. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

A major theme that came out of the conference was bridging the gap between old and new activists and using technology to engage the younger audience. It was great to hear because See3 created the FreeWillPower campaign specifically to appeal to a younger audience and give them ways to opt-in based on their own interests.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful! Enhances your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

21% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag included an personal story, photograph, or link about the ocean. 25% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag were a reply to @kanter. These were collected using storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan? As one participant said during her presentation, “The rest of the staff at our organization is like our audience in some ways. What were some tactics that you tried?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Using a flickr group for contest was a good strategy because as the admin, you can easily add and remove photos and dups. You can also tags. As many of you know, I celebrated a milestone birthday this month. The winner would receive $50 to their favorite cause or charity. (It

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are some post-gala strategies to spark engagement : Relive the Memories, Fuel Excitement: Photo & Video Power Unleash the Photo Power: Tag, Share, & Contest Your Way to Engagement Capture the night’s essence through captivating photos and videos. Offer exciting prizes to incentivize participation.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

For most rock bands, the signature moment of audience participation is when the singer shouts “HELLO, CLEVELAND!” If the band happens to be in Cleveland that night, the audience feels included…”He’s talking to US!” We’ve always been a band that engages in play, whether that means wearing crazy costumes or interacting with the audience.

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