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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Staff the organization’s social media accounts by monitoring follower activity (shares, likes, and comments) and ping those individuals with a way to volunteer or donate (or some other call to action). Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. So, what’s different about this contest than other online contests?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. There's the guy who proposes to his girlfriend.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! video contest and earn the chance to win money for your cause! If your idea is selected as a finalist, you’ll be invited to submit a grant proposal for up to $100,000 to get your project off the ground. Share your links in the comments! Have more news to share?

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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. If the foundation likes your idea, and you become a semifinalist, foundation staff members will help you refine and develop the proposal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

All content of the forum will be public, with comments and feedback on ideas welcomed, Forbes said. “We While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. We want Oregonians to get engaged with us.”.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment Shai Gluskin Wow, that Beery piece was long. 31 Jan 2008 Maya Norton (The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy) Dear Michael, Thanks for linking to Ariel Beery’s proposal on my website. I too was thinking of it when reading these proposals. I can’t summarize what he said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. The proposed call agenda is here. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Have an opinion on any of these topics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A few comments over at Kikono too. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks!

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What we at See3 would like to propose to Google is an addition to their nonprofit program that could greatly enhance the value to organizations. Like with comments, the system could tell a non-registered user that they needed to register.) Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

What we at See3 would like to propose to Google is an addition to their nonprofit program that could greatly enhance the value to organizations. Like with comments, the system could tell a non-registered user that they needed to register.) Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. Is there such a place?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like. the comments.

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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. Change Climage Change: Grant Proposals Open. To participate in this contest, you need to submit your idea on JustMeans and fill out the full grant proposal from Green Mountain Coffee.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. It also focused the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. For any project, you can "love it" (which is like giving it a thumbs-up), "add it to your favorites" (which is a private collecting function), "flag it as inappropriate," and write comments about it. The 174, 425 registered members are all joiners.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. I had over 60 comments and boy was it hard to choose only one winner - so I didn't. Brian Reich author of Media Rules left a comment offering to include a copy of his book.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. NPTech Contests and Awards. If you’d like to comment or add any of your own NPTech news, please log in and make our day. This 25 th. The Internet was created nearly 30 years earlier by the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. Well, less than 24 hours after the camera of was in the hands of the activists from Common Knowledge, I received this comment on the Flickr photo of my camera from Karen Apricot.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. Vote for this Idea ]. and Foreigners. Department of State.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. It was an incredible testament to the commitment and dedication of the nonprofit sector to put words to action - identifying needs and proposing concrete solutions. Interested in any of these ideas?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The whole contest infrastructure is online - submission, discussion, refining, and sharing. Project idea submissions: people can view, comment, discuss project ideas - and the project owners can modify their submissions in reaction to the collaboration (i.e. modify to better meet a need or to compliment another effort.).

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