Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Their use as a recruitment tool will table; they'll reach a network threshold fairly quickly. Go vote here.

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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. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." Freecharity.org.uk Paul Lamb might.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? How do you think the web and technology change will impact identity? Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The whole contest infrastructure is online - submission, discussion, refining, and sharing. Ashoka's Changemakers Project is similar in some ways - running collaborative online contests to identify and reward social entrepreneurs. AMEX gave away $2.5m

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