Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. A common form of contest among companies is the “create a commercial&# contest. Among organizations, contests may seem like a short-cut to get compelling content, and cheaply. The current Heinz contest is a great example.

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JULY 5, 2017

Shepherd , Membership and Leadership Development Manager, Texas Medical Association and Babette Grey , Executive Director, New York State Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The questions will test the knowledge and educate both contestants and audience members alike. Attending AAMSE and want to know more about Web Courseworks?

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2008

If you are excited about GFW's work, take a moment to enter their raffle for a chance to win two free tickets to their 20th anniversay gala fundraiser in New York City on June 5th. The winners will be drawn on May 1, and a selection of stories will be published on the gala's web site.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. Buffalo, New York: What Are Realistic IT Goals for Our Nonprofits? Phoenix, Arizona: Website Building 101: Quick and Easy Web Presence for Nonprofits. Buffalo, New York: Essential Data Management.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. The company currently has three mobile and web-based games available: Fantasy Kingdoms, Music Festivals, and Parallel Kingdom. Gamify Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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See3

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I am very excited that David Pogue , my favorite New York Times technology columnist, is the keynote speaker. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? For those of you who read this blog you know that I am a big fan of David Pogue. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. New York City, New York: Don't Stop A/Believing: Using Testing to Improve Your Newsletter and Website. Wellington, New Zealand: Getting Stuff Done: Essential Online Tools for Good Causes. spanhidden.

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See3

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Columbia University “In the City of New York.&# Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Our tag line at See3 is “Empowering Nonprofits by Powering Their Media&# Nonprofits have tag lines also. CFED says “Expanding Economic Opportunity.&#

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Right now, AVODAH has houses in New York, Washington and Chicago. Starting next fall, AVODAH will be in New Orleans putting “boots on the ground&# to help the city recover. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

Their trouble is connected to the media fragmentation that I so frequently talk about and the rise of the web as a source for news. David Carr in the New York Times suggests that The Wire is placing too much of the blame for the failures in the newsroom on the management staff that has to make them.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Total number of press impressions (for online placements you can use a free resource like Similar Web to get the number of visitors to a website). This is a lot more enticing to journalists.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

While it is true that the younger generations tend to be early adopters of new technology, the internet has become a central part of communications and commerce for every demographic group. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? “Facebook with wrinkles&# they call it.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back. This week I discovered the blog of Ken Stein (no relation), a teacher in New York city. It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

You can read about it more in today’s New York Times. Their video was a runner up in the See3 – NTEN video contest this year. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Obvious isn’t it. The folks at I Love Mountains.Org have done just that.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 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) That went to several thousand supporters.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 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) That went to several thousand supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. tools in their web sites.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. Rosenberg says.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. Rosenberg says.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

fresh+new has had a couple great posts recently about the primacy of lurkers on web 2.0 I was in a bar recently and found myself captivated by “Deal or No Deal,” a show that features the simplest game in the world: a contestant opens suitcases with dollar amounts (up to $1M) behind them. She decides whether to stop or continue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

According to MarketWatch , the grassroots web-based global movement past $1 billion in total online donations since it was launched seven years ago by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. . People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The World Wide Web Turns 25. We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. NPTech Contests and Awards. This 25 th.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Widgets make the web mashable – meaning you create your own web with pieces of this and pieces of that. See the New York Times coverage here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Interactive, web-based ebooks are coming and will transform education and publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the text below in Word document. Experiment with online contests to build your email list. ? Integrate mobile and social media into online contests. ? LinkedIn. ?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right | Beth’s Blog – "The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. Experiment with online contests to build your email list. Offer contests that reward fundraisers who raise the most funds during the campaign. Create a budget.

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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) Do you have more tips to add to my top 10 list?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

It’s a continually evolving “next big thing” machine for the web. Other users do the same, and or check out these new “diggs” on the site via connections they have to other members, interest areas, or general browsing. You may have seen a symbol at the bottom of some news articles or blog posts on the web, enabling you to “digg this.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

is an exhibition of photos that were submitted by open call and judged by individuals over the Web in an experiment following the collective intelligence model set forth by James Surowiecki in his book The Wisdom of Crowds. To people like James and Jeff Howe, it’s a new data set in their work on crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence.

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