Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I’ve been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. Tags: Training Design. The first session, facilitated by colleague Daniel Cohen, focused on creating a communications strategy.

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JUNE 5, 2010

What’s the ROI of Online Voting and Fundraising Contests? Beth Kanter has a terrific post about evaluating nonprofit commitment and investment in sponsored fundraising contests. Tags: Online Fundraising. Is it really worth all that time and energy for a slim chance to win $50K? Do we have a relationship?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Not in San Francisco?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Not in San Francisco?

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

US Agency for International Development has run an interesting contest to identify innovative ideas in mobile computing for international development. ClickDiagnostics: A Micro-Entrepreneurship Based Model to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Mobile Telemedicine. Tags: Technology. Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting. .

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! I hope that I can extend my personal community-driven model of development to aid both the colleagues on the trip as well as those we meet. Tags: challenge socialchange competition entrepreneurship india justmeans social entrepreneurs.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences. Predictive Markets: The Iowa Electronic Markets uses an online wagering model to accurately predict political elections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said. While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. We want Oregonians to get engaged with us.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

21% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag included an personal story, photograph, or link about the ocean. 25% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channels that used the hash tag were a reply to @kanter. These were collected using storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But if we look at for-profit companies using the sponsored tweet model (e.g. Tags: contest fundraising2.0 I know it is a different animal - a campaign implemented by a charity without a for-profit marketing motive lurking beneath. retweet this message and our company will donate $x to charity), there is a better a benchmark.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model. Technorati Tags: wes08sep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community. This is not new for nonprofit folks - looks like some of the items we track in our logic models - at least short-term outcomes for efficiency and effectiveness.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them. This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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JULY 14, 2008

Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them. This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. I think we are going to see many more nonprofits launching interactive video campaigns and contests.

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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. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c They think of each other as gamers. When they find out you are an American, there is a moment of cognitive disonance, but then they come to: "You're not so bad as an American."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

There's a third way, a way modeled in huge tech companies trying to compete with young start-ups. There's more attention these days on the "from the top" model. But again, the "from the top" model requires something that few museum staff have: authority. Tags: professional development. It will not be nimble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 They just finished a YouTube video contest. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. to support programs and exhibits. Is there such a place?

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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

MAY 25, 2010

The Sitings contest invites students to propose an installation and the two proposals that win each year are awarded grants and displayed in the Museum. I don't think that all art museums need to be like this model I suggest. Tags: design guestpost comfort. It relies entirely on the collection and the atmosphere of the space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. Other in-world possibilities include things like virtual one-on-one counseling, conferences, protests, benefit concerts, education centers, contests ???

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I think this is an excellent project that can be a model for small museums and limited budgets, a not-so-scary way to wade into online/onsite connections and visitor participation. After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest. Would my enthusiasm have been different?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

Hold contests for the funniest submissions and put them on display at special events, or, if you're brave, alongside the objects themselves. One of the reasons I advocate strongly for games in museums is that games present compelling, addictive models for engagement with content. Tags: usercontent game. How about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. They run contests, but they are sure to follow Facebook Guidelines. ( So, I shared with participants how I discovered relevant examples. They use fun conversation starters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. 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. Have a brief over that lays out the definition and concept models.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. We’ll spend the least time here, since these are the people who are presumably being served well by the co-creation models at hand. First, the newcomer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

They aren't commissioned to create exhibits; they're invited to take part in a contest. Tags: exhibition virtual worlds Tech Virtual professional development usercontent inclusion. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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MAY 27, 2008

Instead, it uses hundreds of tags, signifiers assigned to each song by a team of musicians, to find correlated songs that may be of interest. Pandora is a model for an alternative. The extraordinary thing about Pandora is the complexity of its filtering. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Tags: Influence Government. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. Vote for This Idea].

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2007

to look askance at contests. They modeled the competition after the British NPG’s well-established competition. Tags: exhibition interview usercontent. I don’t know about you, but when I think “portrait competition,” I imagine refrigerator drawings and cell-phone snapshots. How good could it be? It closes on 17 February, 2007.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Many staff react against this, saying that curation is the museum's job and shouldn't be reduced to a popularity contest. Tags: evaluation Book Discussion: Groundswell participatory museum usercontent. But if the content is laying fallow, reviewed by NO ONE, why not let visitors take up the mantle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Corporate Social Responsibility Programs: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program. Take for example contests. Contests have been a marketing tactic for years.

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APRIL 2, 2010

Model Projects, Grouped by Type. Contests: Portland's Civic App Challenge and Massachusetts' MassDot Developers Real-Time Challenge. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations Government. Colorado Smart Community – online community focused on transforming the Colorado government.

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