Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0 You need to practice talking to people online about your cause; these aren’t skills that more traditional orgs have in their DNA.

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MARCH 14, 2010

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. org campaign has done really well. This is something that the 350.org

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APRIL 27, 2009

Qui Diaz:Livingston, recently did research for the Philanthropy 2.0 How do you involve the org? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Have you seen examples of your org changing? Panelists: Wendy Harmon: social media manager, philosophy is to use social media to execute mission.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

But I wonder about all the orgs who went down this road because of the publicity but were so less equipped than you to be successful. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? The whole giving competition thing is complicated and I am not sure it’s healthy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. We only allowed 1 vote per e-mail address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 Five Hot Conversations. NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? tools in their web sites.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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