Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

When I heard about this story, I was curious about Drew's tatoos. I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. Great work Drew! Photo by Steve Garfield.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. Kickstarter works best through story-telling, so find a way to make your project’s story personal and meaningful to each and every donor, no matter the size of his or her contribution.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? It’s a dumb question because I know you can. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Which one worked best?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

The site is a toolkit of free online services for child health advocates, including a map of the obesity prevention movement , customizable widgets, cell phone tools, and blogger outreach services. It’s a great example of how web technology and online tools are changing the game for childhood health advocates across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. This conversation was started by.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Share Your Story. It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? ways to tell a story. This month, all of the links are courtesy of We Are Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Gather the troops and start brainstorming ways that you can grab the attention of supporters, bloggers and media. 2: TELL A GREAT STORY. Your story should quickly grab the reader’s attention. The great thing about being a nonprofit is that you already have an advantage—your mission is all about stories. 1: GET CREATIVE.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). You need a strategy for your video and your call to action.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 The Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? A fun thing to do is to go to the Internet Archive’s “ Way Back Machine &# which has 85 billion web pages archived from 1996. Here’s what Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. Freecharity.org.uk Where's the conference tag?

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

It has the petition right on the home page, a URL that’s easy to remember and fits the content, the video as the center of attention right next to the form, only a few links on the page, clear and concise content, a push to get bloggers like me to host the video to get more views, and a coordinated strategy with multiple organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . It also refers to the reach of your content/story - the process of spreading word-of-mouth referrals or sparking new and related conversation threads.

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MAY 25, 2007

And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? One thing he mentioned was how the web was beginning to become a check on the lame political coverage of the mainstream media.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. The press release describes it as: A free service allowing bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the Web. It provides a huge return on investment. Here's why: A way to crowd source ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson (well known video bloggers and authors of books on the topic) have will be leading the session, along with Andy Carvin and Jonny Goldstein , also accomplished video bloggers. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back. Beth is a Cambridge, MA blogger and techy who has done a lot of work with arts and educational organizations. You can read the interview here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

They can serve as a “living” version of the museum collection, and are usually populated by short posts that link to other content sources for the full story. Hold a contest and select several bloggers from across the institution. This is the 2.0 How to maximize this type? Provide content that no one else does--and lots of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story. milllion blogs. Networking Insight Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede. It WILL get less traffic, though likely very important traffic from other bloggers and organizations who will pick up the idea (that would be called ‘organizing’).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews. We also asked the community to vote and rate the examples. A funny thing happened. What I do the same?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Participated in our online contests such as photo competitions, etc. Shared personal stories with us about how climate change was affecting their communities. Looked to us as an authority on climate change across social media. Shared our advocacy actions with their friends and colleagues on social networks. It’s subjective.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

All the news stories I saw on this urged us to not confuse the web with the Internet. Among the plethora of news stories on this, I recommend Der Spiegel’s frank interview with Berners-Lee. NPTech Contests and Awards. This 25 th. The Internet was created nearly 30 years earlier by the U.S. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Was there a recent news story related to dogs in your field? Giveaways and contests Contests and giveaways will drive action.

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See3

MAY 11, 2007

But your job in the nonprofit is to make it easy, to give them the tools to tell the story in the way you want it told, to have compelling photos and media materials that they can use, to easily provide links for others to donate. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. This young Cambodian blogger working in Singapore contributed $5 !

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

On the other side of the world, OneWebDay organizers in Manila are rocking out at their "OneWebDay Jam and Awards Ceremony," where they will host a battle of the bands and recognize the winners of contests for young bloggers, artists who submit pieces on the digital divide, and entrepreneurs.

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