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How to Hype Homecoming Using Social Media

Connection Cafe

Here’s how to get started: Before: Build Hype. Run contests to encourage people to share pictures or publish posts. If homecoming attendees donated to your annual fund, make sure you thank them. During, when you’re engaging and delighting. After, when you’re reinforcing memories and sustaining the relationship.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. and volcom sector adoption. I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" apps risk free?

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Event Fundraising Contests That Will Blow Your Mind!!

NetWits

We’ve touched on task-based event fundraising contest here before, but because this way of motivating your supporters is so effective we thought it was time to0 revisit the topic in more details. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue. Belong to a team.

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Spring Fundraising Events: How to Plan a Fresh, Exciting Event

Qgiv

They combine putting and chipping contests with silent and live auctions, dinner, an open bar, and the opportunity to win a ton of fun prizes, all while raising money for their mission. Step 3: Engage the Hype Machine. And, when I say “hype machine,” I mean it. May the 4th Be With You Costume Contest. Garden Party.