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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Dot Voting Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. This process isn’t a popularity contest or a way to force a decision. A simple way to take dot voting on online would be to use a combination of Zoom and Google documents. For the voting part, you would use a google document.

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Guest Post by Anne Mai Bertelsen: Contests for Good - An Insider's View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Spend two hours googling “creative fundraising ideas” to get inspired. Sort through online organizational data (Google analytics, email open rates) to see if there are insights, trends, and patterns that could be used to improve operations. Help the organization apply for, qualify for, and manage its Google for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. " pleas. I'd love to see some data a year from now.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. " pleas. I'd love to see some data a year from now.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Contest: User Generated Crap, er… Content

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One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. A common form of contest among companies is the “create a commercial&# contest. Among organizations, contests may seem like a short-cut to get compelling content, and cheaply. The current Heinz contest is a great example.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Just when you thought the election couldn’t get more fun…

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Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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