Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. young people???

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

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. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

US Agency for International Development has run an interesting contest to identify innovative ideas in mobile computing for international development. Tags: Technology. They got some interesting nominations and have identified the top three winners : * Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. The forum asks visitors to identify what they think is the most pressing issue facing Oregon and to share their best ideas to address it. Tags: challenge collaboration competition foundation innovation oregon philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2009

If you're scrambling to get your submission in for this year's Adobe and TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest , you've got just a handful of hours left to get yours in. Here's more info from a previous post : Adobe and TechSoup are delighted to announce that we are now taking submissions for the Show Your Impact Design Contest !

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . In case you hadn't heard , Convio is sponsoring 50 NTEN memberships to nonprofits nominated in their NPHero contest. Tags: community buzz nten members. Members are in bold. Thanks, Peter!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. Unfortunately, you can't read the press release I saw; it isn't on their website anymore. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. Why wasn't this a huge success like the Oreo Jingle contest ? follow-through. What happened? Which leads to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The listening as a first step is familiar - it's free market research, it's brand monitoring, it's an analysis of press mentions. Getting Started: You Don't Have To Be Joey Chestnut The photo above is Joey Chestnut who won the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in 2008. Tags: change management listening. Has it been valuable?

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Here’s the press release: W.K. Tags: Uncategorized fundraising. Today they just announced that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation added another $75,000 to the pot to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Making me think of March Dimes Flickr Contest ) Epilepsy Action in MySpace 1. Here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. The press release describes it as: A free service allowing bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the Web. Tags: creativecommons. It provides a huge return on investment.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest. Technorati Tags: wes08sep. The model for disseminating web content is evolving.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The secret of reality TV’s success is the viewer’s involvement with the ‘journey’ of the contestants. We also sent out a weekly press release about the new countdown and announced the new number one on Twitter. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 The following week it shot up the chart from number 40 to number 14!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

And while they may receive less press, the more typical path for skunkworks is grassroots. A few years ago, I worked at a museum that held a $1000 contest to come up with a great new advertising idea. Tags: professional development. But again, the "from the top" model requires something that few museum staff have: authority.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Also covered: News Articles and Press Releases, Blogs, Images and Infographics, Videos, Online Petitions, Online Contests, Online Stores, Ebooks and Digital Reports, Event Invitations, Webinars, and Smartphone and Tablet Apps. Maximize your YouTube SEO using video tags and video titles. Chapter 9: Facebook. Chapter 12: LinkedIn.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We got a lovely bit of press on the first four exhibit selections, and I'm thrilled by the diversity of participants and novel creations that have been submitted thus far. They aren't commissioned to create exhibits; they're invited to take part in a contest. It's as practical as it is philosophical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. set audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

It’s a catch-22: If you do something quick and spontaneous, you’ll build excitement and mystery, but you won’t have the time to inform bloggers and the press about what you’re doing far enough in advance for them to provide details and perspectives. We also have several conversations with the press underway as a result of the campaign.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

But remember don’t treat it as a one way communication tool to just blast out your latest press releases and action alerts. Nonprofits can start a Facebook Group, Cause Page to raise a bit of money, or Fan Page to post recent news, videos, photos, events, launch contests, and talk to your members via discussion boards.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is one of very few online museum projects that has truly "gone viral," enjoying press attention and growing participation from people all over the world. The project has not had any heavy marketing campaigns or contests associated with it. Tags: web2.0 What makes the World Beach Project so successful?

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