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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

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. The crowd decides and creates everything that it is.

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September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

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Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans. No, not trapper keeper.)

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Transmedia Storytelling at SXSW Interactive

Connection Cafe

While an official definition may be arguable, I would define transmedia story telling as a technique in telling a story where multiple platforms or channels are necessary to tell the whole story. The other transmedia session told a similar story of whatBravo did with the Top Chef series and contest.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards

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Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The theme of this year’s contest is From the Ground Up: Using Technology to Engage Constituents and Make the World a Better Place. The finalists will be shown on www.DoGooder.tv

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Social media platforms come and go, but emails belong to you! These need not look like a commercial.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

How do you involve the org? but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Have you seen examples of your org changing? Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. Discussion: What is your learning process from social media?

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

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When planning content for your social media platforms, think first about your audience. In creating a social media plan, every single post you make on any social media platform should serve one of the following purposes: Informational articles showing the impact of your work and why there is a need. What’s Your Audience Interested in?