Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Lately there's lots of buzz about innovative ways that government can use new technologies share data, increase citizen visibility, and promote participation. Our staff and clients are excited by the Obama administration's pledge to promote transparency in government, as well as the DC government's recent innovations with public data.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

We were also humbled by this laudatory blog post on whitehouse.gov by Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The contest is open to anyone — including journalists, local election officials, civic technologists, academics, businesses, nonprofits, governments, and individuals. Go to newschallenge.org during the submissions phase and click the "add your entry" button anywhere on the site.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

When someone posts a positive comment on your blog, can you use it in your fundraising materials? Can you edit the videos your supporters created for your video contest into something entirely new? The world of technology is changing so quickly, the laws that govern intellectual property can barely keep up.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! The Federal government has recently launched Challenge.gov to enlist the public in helping to solve difficult problems. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences. Foundation application?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This contemporary public-privatepartnership gives NOAA access to 8 million targeted activists who canwork with the government for common objectives. 1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Misc. Social Networking Reader Comments (1) Thanks for the compliment! 1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Misc.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Make your online content more interactive and engaging using these content ideas: Blog posts with comments sections. Online contests or challenges. Incorporate contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers. News & World Report.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

Their video was a runner up in the See3 – NTEN video contest this year. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment James Gardner The debate over the legality of Mountaintop Mining (MTM) has now raged for many years and some have attempted to turn it into a morality play. How are you showing your issue?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Livingston - HHS, wanted evaluation of pandemic flu conversation online, point was to understand what they were saying about the government and so on to really know what to address as an organization to that community. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A few comments over at Kikono too. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. social marketing,???

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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. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. To participate in this contest, you need to submit your idea on JustMeans and fill out the full grant proposal from Green Mountain Coffee. February 16th – March 21st: Public comments on ideas.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment » Why do people give charity? [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Please share your own in the comments section. Rewards can come in many different forms, but most sites have had success with rewarding participation through recognition and acknowledgement, as well as through more overt measures like contests and prizes. allowing users to add documents, comments, blog or discussion posts, etc.)

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Data theft, cyberattacks, and government surveillance are a growing fact of digital life, and it looks like 2015 will only be more of the same. There you can find projects to fund gas money for someone to attend a music event, buy a new set of roller skates, win a bodybuilding contest, and take a much-needed vacation. Just unconnect.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

NPTech Contests and Awards. So much broadcast ink and time has been devoted to government spying and intrusion in to our digital lives, I was glad to see a CBS News 60 Minutes segment on a significant digital privacy threat that is almost never covered: data brokers. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations. Just Plain Crazy. TechCrunch.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2009

The District of Columbia, for example, boasts one of the highest insurance rates in the country, but two thirds of its residents rely on Medicaid and finding and getting an appointment with a doctor who takes Medicaid can seem more difficult than winning a radio contest. The systems are complex, and the information is inadequate.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As for tactics, well, we mostly relied on “proven” or “successful” efforts; lessons learned from other organizations working in an analog paradigm like government, unions, and churches. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community. Analog Tactics. The Evolution of NPTech. Resources & Links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign. In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. We had links to the Visible Government website, and generated enquiries there.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Comment below! Receive monthly updates 4 Comments | by Share Article in Online Fundraising Reader Comments (4) Great post. The ability to create contests and pass out kudos enables the non profit to help the members to change their shopping and benefit the charity. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

They’ve also shared thousands of pages, videos, social media comments, blog posts, and white papers discussing relief efforts and their own initiatives. Building Authenticity with Social Media People trust individuals they know more than they trust the government, journalists, or business leaders.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

The event convened almost 300 passionate people, all coming together for a common goal: to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent, accountable and meaningfully accessible to the public. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people interested or involved in local open government projects.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

However, lack of data never stopped me from commenting, so here are a couple of thoughts: First of all, I suspect nonprofits play a different role in many countries. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. Second, the US is the significantly wealthier than most nations.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

However, lack of data never stopped me from commenting, so here are a couple of thoughts: First of all, I suspect nonprofits play a different role in many countries. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. Second, the US is the significantly wealthier than most nations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Did I think it had anything to do with minorities being more trusting of the government during the Obama era? I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! Not only can visitors create their own indicators - they can comments on others indicators, share indicators on various social media sites, and "rate" their favorite indicators! by September 7th.

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