Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I personally really like any activism that includes individual expression like this (like www.sorryeverybody.com ) If someone gets out the crayons and makes a sign, they are definitely engaged in your cause. Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

This month's Net2ThinkTank question on NetSquared is, “What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?” Full disclosure: I know many of the people quoted in this post professional or personally. I predict that one of them will be iPhone apps for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Useful for you personally or organizationally? Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. What's your take on Twitter for Nonprofits? Not at all? Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes. It is a two-minute elevator speech by the founder of the organization, a warm and personal telling of the organization's programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Follow the links from here.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. " And then there's the personal causes funding service, Go Fund Me. How to be successful on either a personal or charity crowdfunding campaign? What they said may surprise you. Cheaper Consumer Electronics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. Set up a small experiment: It doesn't have to an exhaustive experiment.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: Should nonprofits have organizational Twitter accounts, or should employees keep their own personal accounts to tweet about the org & engage in conversation? Beth : You know, on Twitter, your organization should have a personality. Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. NEVER: Be sarcastic, rant prolifically, curse, or personally attack a person. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The difference, like with communications, is that when you launch a crowd-sourcing contest or campaign, you are trying to get ideas or submissions from the network, the crowd – from people or organizations you don’t know. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community. But we need new resources, too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. For multi-lingual surveys, it is a better service than SurveyMonkey. Event Management.

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