NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Thanks to everyone who came.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Flicker photo: mastermaq Every year at the NTC , we partner with See3 to bring you the DoGooder Nonprofit Video awards. Everything you need to know about the contest: This year's contest is a bit different than before, but the concept is still the same: we're celebrating and recognizing the best in nonprofit video!

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

As Holly wrote in the #NTCFail blog post outlining the things that didn’t go as planned at the event, we value being open and accountable at NTEN. NTCwinning 1: The Community Photo by Trav Williams You. We were also fortunate to have the San Francsico Gay Men’s Chorus (NTEN Members all) close up the event in a very classy way.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

more than 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. There was an overwhelming amount of talent and stories shared through the contest! This is a “red carpet” event!

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2012

poetryslam At NTEN, we love all the various tools and technologies that help us communicate and connect with our community, ensure that all of our work and cat videos are backed up, and our data is both useable and safe. NTEN is hosting the Nonprofit Technology Poetry Slam at SXSW. Photo credit (Flickr: [link] ). We can't wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. It isn??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Note: I've had this blog post in a draft for about a week and was reminded about it when I saw this post over at the NTEN blog asking Is Facebook A Bust or Is Obama's Model the Future ? But the denominations of the donations remain small, and it's not clear that one-off contests will lead to more. But, it not necessarily anything new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

NTEN has published a useful quick “What’s This? Chad Norman shares a post of some interesting nonprofit examples , including one from the South Carolina Aquarium that created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Photo by M. This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. Holly Ross, NTEN, Four Lessons Learned About Social Media in 2010. Schenekenberg. Other than benchmarking against yourself over time, are there sub-sector averages that we can look at?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. We Are Media Tactical Module 1: Listening by NTEN and Beth Kanter. Photo Credit: Customers Rock. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

NTEN set up an event area on Slideshare for the NTC 2010. Some events have set up branded channels, like the Bar Camp Channel. (5) NTEN’s WeAreMedia project has taken this a step further and uses Slideshare so trainers can remix each other’s decks. (7) 6) Training. 7) Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

15 groups held live events which helped drive video submissions to the contest and allowed TechSoup to reach more NGOs with educational opportunities. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. 9: Photo Trends and Evolution. Upcoming Events.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Photo: Pune Dracker Everything I know about the editorial process I learned from Teddy Bear Review. Each week we run a photo and ask an open-ended question about it, revealing the “official” answer the following week. It’s along the lines of a weekly caption contest, but there’s an educational component to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Photo by Thorny Pup. So, thanks to NTEN , we offered prizes for participation free copies of books - either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0. But, if you're doing a contest and you wanted to make a little easy to get contact information - required registration before your edit can be useful.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good. It's another thing for NTEN to lead in this area. Participatory. Collaborative. Good things will follow.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: licolnian Direct mail has been, and still is, the cornerstone of nonprofit fundraising. That's why we're excited to see a fantastic new contest out there: the Paperless Choice Challenge. . That's why we're excited to see a fantastic new contest out there: the Paperless Choice Challenge. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. The contest was a success in that judges had a hard time selecting the winners because of the quality and usefulness of the apps. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Fail formally - protesting Wendy’s with a photo sharing with a protest sign but only got a few people doing it, heard so much about how hard it was for people to participate, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. The youtube video is from Star Bucks Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

Photo by Rich Anderson. My thought was to blog about the cause (a stretch), but to share as much learning about personal/social fundraising or what I'm learning about social networks - that should be of interest some readers - and even those I'm competing with for the contest. The question is "when is enough enough? (in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. I read in the NTEN newsletter where there was call for Affinity Group Meetings. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. Where do I find more information?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

It will also allow you to store 12 hours of videos and photos in Space Saver format so you can take your favorite content wherever you go. Here’s a great opportunity to participate in SmartOnline’s ‘Invent Your Mobile App’ Contest, and explore these possibilities! Want to share it? Stop by booth 52 to register for your chance to win!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." Post photos and videos from your organization's latest events. Hold contests. Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. Forum One's Facebook Page. click to enlarge).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Details are here.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. Why the dog photo? Well, that’s my dog and he’s pretty cute, but Beth and Katie are also running a dog vs cat photo contest. Here’s a case study of my own! To Link or Not to Link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

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. I rely on photos sent to me by the filmmakers and some journalists on the field. Set up a small experiment: It doesn't have to an exhaustive experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As NTEN points out , the campaign include integrated tactics: They have a custom landing tab on Facebook for the campaign, tied to a contest: they’re asking their fans to share their pets’ stories and photos. Everybody who uploads a photo gets a discount coupon to their online store. That was key.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

Oh, and Causes is an NTEN member, too!). Wiley is donating books to Mashable's #Stories4Good contest , a social media for social good initiative. I saw this photo from NTEN member Marc Osten , and thought I'd include it as an "image of the week" for us: Tags: community buzz NPTech nten member.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

We launched a digital photo contest through Flickr in 2005, not because we thought it was going to raise a ton of money, but because we thought we could launch the whole effort in just a couple of days.

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