Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

You can host a contest for your volunteers to come up with designs for their blankets. Letters from your nonprofit’s staff members or executive director A letter straight from your staff members or executive director will leave your volunteers feeling happy and satisfied, boosting volunteer engagement and retention.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The goal of the project is to not simply host a contest, but "to help nonprofits think creatively about using technology to fulfill their missions, without having a fear of technology and by learning a new skill with an element of fun," says Susan Tenby, Director, Online Community and Social Media Team, TechSoup Global.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

Give sponsor shoutouts (be sure to tag their accounts) on all your social channels for additional sponsor visibility and engagement. Include the sponsor’s name in certain event activities, such as a “Hole-in-One Contest Presented by Sponsor” or “Sponsor Photo Booth.” Use social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. for NGOs there. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 9, 2010

If you’re unfamiliar with Biggest Loser, it’s a reality show where contestants lose weight. Tonight showed the contestants each working an 8-hour day for a week at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Tags: Donor Acknowledgement nonprofit fundraising. I was so excited to see them there!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, organizations submitted their best creative works to the Show Your Impact 2010 design contest, sponsored by Adobe and TechSoup. Tags: Multimedia & Graphics Running Your Organization Software Spotlight Training Volunteers.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2010

If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation. Contest participants rated the following as most useful: Tags: Nonprofit Events Online Fundraising Volunteering. The challenge raised $2.1 The challenge raised $2.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

They’ve increased their fan base by 4 times or over 400 now – and the odds are good that there will be a truckload of food delivered to the Food Bank on October 4th. What’s nice about this approach is that it isn’t a contest and the only “winners&# are the people who are served by the Food Bank.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You can listen for mentions of your organization, products you sell, your executive director or a figurehead’s name, special events you are running, causes you support, campaigns you are managing, and so on. Your executive director or a figurehead’s name. The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. Products you sell.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

You can add hashtags and location tags to make your photos even more searchable. We had two super-short video veterans presenting at our webinar: Aaron Bramley is a filmmaker and the co-founder and interim executive director of Lights. Vine is the other popular short video tool. The service has around 100 million users each month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Mark said it all boils down to leadership and organizational culture – some he called “Executive Director’s Disease&# of needing control and concern about social media. Tags: Free Agent. The computer room in the First Steps for Families Shelter. He explains more in the brief video.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner." Tags: NPTech nten members. See more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Earthquake Aftermath in Jacmel Photos by Andrew Bigosinski, Director of Ciné Lekol. I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Tags: maps. Crisis Camps.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

In other news: Arif Mamdani is the new Executive Director of the Progressive Technology Project. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. Check out all the members, former and current, collaborating in this discussion about prioritorizing technology at nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Be Careful Not To Violate Facebook Promotional Guidelines With Contests. Tags: Experimentation Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design Facebook. This is a fairly small staff, with limited resources. Ten Cool Status Update Tricks. Four Proven Steps to Facebook Page Success. Top Six Social Media Mistakes and How To Fix Them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

According to Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery who forwarded the trailer link to me, the selection process for contestants looks at how many people view the applicants' trailers. Tags: privatization rights water. I encourage you to watch and pass on the link to this important film, not only to help K.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

guest posts from from Joe Solomon - Founder and Executive Director of Social Actions. For those new to Change the Web , it's a contest launching on Feb 16th to encourage a new wave of web applications that help you find, share, and take actions on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we visit online everyday.

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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. Dave King is the acting director of IT at the Kansas City public library. Tags: nptech , net2 It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Museum workers other than curators are gaining power, often rising to directors of major museums. John Russick of the Chicago History Center runs the annual label contest for the American Alliance of Museums , and those entries are always worth reading. And, yet, there is so much to do.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Approach #4: Personal Voice Blog (star example: Director's Blog at the Walters Art Museum ) Though this approach is the gold standard for personal blogs, it's incredibly unusual for institutional blogs. Hold a contest and select several bloggers from across the institution. Tags: web2.0 How to maximize this type?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

She said it happens in one of two ways: either the place is small and inconsequential enough that no one is watching, or there's a passionate, gutsy director willing to risk his or her job. A few years ago, I worked at a museum that held a $1000 contest to come up with a great new advertising idea. It will not be nimble.

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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. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

With 10-20 hours per week, become a community director. open collections databases like the Powerhouse Museum's tagging system , where visitors can add their own keyword tags to museum artifacts. If you want to get really fancy and go video, you can "vodcast" this way, too. But you want something bigger? Then sheesh!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2007

Nick Serota, the Tate's director, commented that "'the public display of four artists' work spurs people to reflect about art.'" Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 The short-listed artists are frequently working in different disciplines with very different motivations. Projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The difference, like with communications, is that when you launch a crowd-sourcing contest or campaign, you are trying to get ideas or submissions from the network, the crowd – from people or organizations you don’t know. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. set audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. I'd like to know how you convinced your executive directors/senior staff to go for it? What were the concerns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships. . - GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

"By being almost always with you, anytime you had a question or concern or surprise, the device was available for capturing those concerns," said Professor Elizabeth Mynatt, director of the GVU Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology , which does technology research. At any time, users can access clinic information as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have used crowdsourcing and social media to encourage innovative social change ideas or to raise money for nonprofits or shine attention on their do good work. From my son's kindergarten class.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

But the issues raised and the ideal presented are still highly contested today. She writes at length about Jeshajahu Weinberg, the founding director and visionary of the US Holocaust Museum, who in many ways defied museum convention to create extraordinary experiences. Where do you come down on the team approach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We have some great ideas for how to use the money, including the forthcoming Code for Canada contest and an initiative to get computer science students to develop transparency applications. Disclosure: Rednod’s Alistair Croll is on the board of directors of Visible Government]. Tags: socialmediametrics. What did we do wrong?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Just a little bit about who we are, I am the founder and principal of Sarah Willey, LLC, and as Steven alluded to, I’m also the interim co-executive director at the moment of Missouri Health Care for All. So we really encourage that. I’ve got my email address and my Twitter and LinkedIn information on the slide.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

” , Rob Pierson, Online Communications Director for Congressman Mike Honda and soon to be New Media Director for the House Democratic Caucus, said that sending enewsletters to your online list is the best bang for your buck when you have limited time and resources.

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