Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

This case study explores how a small nonprofit, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) , a contest winner in the first and second America’s Giving Challenges, is using social media effectively. They also understand how to avoid donor fatigue, the potential downside to online contests. Come join the discussion !

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Organize a Pumpkin Carving Contest. Why not host a pumpkin carving contest? The easiest way to organize a pumpkin carving contest is to ask your school or a local business to host it. Encourage them to post on social media about your event and tag your organization so you can share their photos. Plan a Costume 5k.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Social media contests: Photo contests can drive tons of engagement for your nonprofit on social media.Choose a relevant task for the contest that also makes for a fun visual, then ask supporters to post a photo and tag your nonprofit’s account to enter. Thank donors and volunteers often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I've been following the PepsiFresh contest since the launch in December, the largest social media for social good cause marketing effort put forth to date. Jeremiah Owyang has shared his initial analysis of Pepsi's Contest, summarizing the opportunity, risks, strengths, weaknesses, metrics, and impact. Tags: contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've written a lot lately about contests ( Chase Community Giving and Pepsi Refresh ) here in the United States that are focused on "social media for social media." While Ennovent , a social enterprise, is very different from a major consumer brand in the US, I think we can learn a lot about the design of the contest. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Build excitement through your Instagram event promotion by posting teasers about your event line-up, contests, and ticket deals. Host contests and giveaways to boost engagement. Engage your followers even before your event by hosting Instagram contests and giveaways. Tag friends in a post or comment on one of your posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Congrats to Megha Bhagat , Winner of HP Laptop/Printer Bundle Contest that I ran on my blog last month. To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. Her blog is here. Tags: contest india. Megha Bhagat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

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See3

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Our tag line at See3 is “Empowering Nonprofits by Powering Their Media&# Nonprofits have tag lines also. Our tag line at See3 is “Empowering Nonprofits by Powering Their Media&# Nonprofits have tag lines also. It’s good to have a tag line that’s hard to argue with.

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TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

Be sure to cite the original poster, and tag it with the #regram. Encourage interaction on your feed by running contests, asking questions, ask for a #regram, and encourage people to share your message. The post 5 Tips For Improving Your Nonprofit’s Instagram appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

Alliance for Tompotika Conservation , Cacapon Institute , Project Kindle , and Project ABE take away the highest honors in the Adobe Show Your Impact 2009 Design Contest , co-sponsored by software company Adobe Systems Incorporated and TechSoup. We'll be profiling each of the winning orgs here on the TechSoup Blog over the coming weeks.

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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. link to see this as well ([link] is the QR code for this blog post).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2010

It was done through a series of blog posts called AGC Conversational Case Studies and encouraged the public to weigh in via comments to the blog posts, live CaseSoup video discussions, and Twitter. You find the report, blog posts, and archived videos over at the Case Foundation site here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Time will tell, but the contest has given us a jump start on our social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! If you're not familiar with this cool contest, check out last year's winners. We highlighted one of them here on the TechSoup Blog too.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Incentivize engagement by hosting a giveaway or other fun contest just for new followers on your platform of choice. Make sure to mention the contest in your regular emails and newsletters so your entire mailing list will know about it. New blog posts. Just like. a multi-channel approach to fundraising. Announcements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

Part of the campaign includes a photo context in Flickr using the tag freedomfromoil. Contest details are here: [link] Via Britt Bravo's blog at netsquared [link] [link] The JumpStart Ford ([link] is a campaign to convince the auto industry to improve fuel efficiency and eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2020.

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

In contest news, NTEN member organization ZeroDivide has launched a great contest that combines poetry, social media, and good causes: the ZD Technology Haiku Contest ! Finally, I love it when NTEN members pat each other on the back: Michelle Murrain gives ONE/Northwest a nice shout-out for having a helpful nptech blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

This past week has been about the lightest blogging week ever. I've been thinking a lot of those, mostly internal - personal improvement and professional goals for my work, blog, and professional learning. The Case Foundation has just launched the " Change Begins With Me " contest. Tags: promotion. Need some motivation?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Can’t wait!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 21, 2010

Contesting the Death of Traditional CRM: Social CRM is a Process and not a Technology – worth a read. gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Visual Force Email Templates 2. Tags: CRM Nonprofit Tech Web/Tech. Google Font Directory – directory of available fonts from Google. Small Business CRM | BatchBook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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NTEN

APRIL 14, 2009

We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! ZD Blog - Comment on this blog post. Tags: contest haiku NPTech social media zerodivide. Winners will be announced on Friday, May 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2010

Just a quick reminder that the deadline to submit your post about How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog to this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival is Tuesday, July 27th. Tags: nptech. Your post doesn't have to be long (100-200 words). For more information, see the original call for submissions.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

Our very own Elliot Harmon , talented writer , blogger , forum host , poet , and all-around-good-guy was notified last week that he's won Ashoka's "Blog Your Way to Hyderabad" contest. Check out Elliot's winning blog post here. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Grants for Technology Staff. We're pleased as punch.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Everyday Frogloop scours the web for the best blog posts that we think nonprofit campaigners must read. “People are losing faith in the follower counts, popularity contests, influence determinations (often based on bad formulas), and control your message dictates. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

They would likely be happy to donate a gift of some sort or furnish additional funds to you for the right to put their name on the contest. We’ve all seen the contests: “share this post, like this page, and tag a friend for your chance to win [insert prize].”. You can do a contest like the one above or do something different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Click to Flickr Photos Tagged with 07ntc in A Slide Show Presentation. Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. Alan Levine (cogdog blog) who submitted the winning entry left a comment in a post where I asked that same question. He pointed me to his blog entry about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. Fine Blog . Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Here's my contest. Tags: contest. They also implemented a bloggers outreach campaign to do a product giveaway.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Creative Commons is running a Flickr Contest encouraging people to use their photographic skills to support Creative Commons. Technorati Tags: nptech. Photo in flickr. The official rules are here. What a great idea!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. Jessica shares how she helped in the contest. . Tags: sxsw. Conclusion.

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