Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. In my small-scale “free agent” crowdfunding experiment for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, I ended up with $235 from 1,000 followers by the deadline. Here is what he learned. Guest Post by Marc van Bree.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have a second paid person, LaWanna Mitchell, who creates e-cards, games, screensavers, puzzles and a plethora of free downloads for our website. In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. Tags: Social Media The Book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

Click to Flickr Photos Tagged with 07ntc in A Slide Show Presentation. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?" Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. And, did I mention this little tool was free?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. for NGOs there.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. public information???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. " and tells exactly why. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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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. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link." It turns to surprise when they see what is there and it free for the using. I've used this license.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. It only enters one social media contest a year. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. What about you, small organizations?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. The Internet, especially the mobile web, encourages rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Really short.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

This is a free event. This is a free event. Third, we're participating in the Apps for America Contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Third, we're participating in the Apps for America Contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Tags: Events. Wish us luck! Let us know in the comments.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Everyday Frogloop scours the web for the best blog posts that we think nonprofit campaigners must read. Check them out and feel free to share your own picks of the week. “People are losing faith in the follower counts, popularity contests, influence determinations (often based on bad formulas), and control your message dictates.

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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. Thanks, Peter!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 I provided the Web 2.0 So in the interest of hers, yours, and everyone else’s time, here’s a rundown on what I see as the real time costs of a variety of Web 2.0 The time cost of Web 2.0

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. Because data is powerful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

We will also name the winner of the webinar series storytelling contest. We'll hear from several web managers who deployed a web site, internet application or interactive campaign in a few weeks from start to finish. Set Your Data Free: How to Let OTHERS use YOUR data to make an impact. Vote for "Set Your Data Free" now

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

BookTour.com is a free directory created by Kevin Smokler, Chris Anderson and Adam Goldstein that makes it easy for book lovers to find out what authors will be coming to their town. Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Flickr photo contest. Tags: askbritt.

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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. Washington DC, here we come!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The listening as a first step is familiar - it's free market research, it's brand monitoring, it's an analysis of press mentions. Getting Started: You Don't Have To Be Joey Chestnut The photo above is Joey Chestnut who won the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in 2008. Tags: change management listening. Has it been valuable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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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. Can cell phones ensure a free vote? Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

As I sit here avoiding the completion of the rest of the powerpoint slides for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK session I'm leading with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" Understand how web 2.0 apps risk free?

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

Not illicit, hacky apps like people have been writing so far, but authorized, tested, legitimate software, much of it free, that can tap into all the features of the iPhone. 18 Mar 2008 Recent URLs tagged Davidpogue – Urlrecorder [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts. Hold contests. Facebook apps come in three flavors: mobile apps, web-based tools, and downloadable applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I actually joined Twitter because I had just submitted my entry into the Ideablob contest and there were links to share your entry on "social media" so I clicked on Twitter and that was that. My business card (which I hand out in bulk at autism conferences) includes all the ways I can be found: web, email, Twitter, Facebook, and cell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They also understand how to leverage and work with free agents or groups that may create “unofficial pages.&#. They run contests, but they are sure to follow Facebook Guidelines. ( Tags: Engagement Experimentation Influencers Listening Measurement Networked Nonprofit cogdogblog Facebook midea museums.

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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. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. Tags: sxsw training materials. The maps are made by community members.

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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. His team includes writers, designers, and web producers. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social

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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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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Paste this code immediately before the tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This was originally published at the Rednod blog by Alistair Croll who among other things is the co-author along with Sean Power of Complete Web Monitoring recently published by O'Reilly. We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. Tags: socialmediametrics. Here‘s what worked: We built analytics into the process.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All great questions! Comment below!

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