Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge. Video submissions are being accepted for the 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards, co-sponsored by See3 Communications and NTEN. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Competitions, Awards, and Recognition. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Which one worked best? Hurry voting ends August 5th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

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. If your nonprofit is based in the DC area, NpowerDC reminds us that the deadline for their annual Technology Innovation Award is two weeks away. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). To participate in this contest, you need to submit your idea on JustMeans and fill out the full grant proposal from Green Mountain Coffee. I’d love to hear it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns. My experiment with user-generated content is here. Who Is Sick?

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