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Guest Post by Anne Mai Bertelsen: Contests for Good - An Insider's View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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Fundraising Roundup

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billion (almost 5%) according the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined.

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Using Super-Short Videos to Reach New Audiences

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Melissa Thompson is an activist filmmaker, documentarian, and senior video producer for Greenpeace USA , which recently ran a global contest to encourage its activist community to submit Vine videos in honor of Earth Day. This very simple video won an honorable mention in The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Six-Second Appeal Challenge.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. The contest was a success in that judges had a hard time selecting the winners because of the quality and usefulness of the apps. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Qui Diaz:Livingston, recently did research for the Philanthropy 2.0 industry benchmarks. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. The contest was a success in that judges had a hard time selecting the winners because of the quality and usefulness of the apps. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Online Fundraising in a Bad Economy - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)