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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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Learning Contest Lesson Philanthropy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Technology.

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Nashville Twitter Blogger Contest 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

public information??? Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 era websites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Here is a copy of the application narrative; you can read it and vote for me on the competition site here. Tags: challenge socialchange competition entrepreneurship india justmeans social entrepreneurs. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!" Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. We have long known that our members were passionate about photography, and one of their strongest ties to the organization was through the photography that we use on our web site and in our publications. Keep them engaged. Any gotchas?

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Conservancy Flickr Group Interview 56

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. Between now and September 7, the public will vote for their favorite app. Tags: Communication Government Transparency Strategy Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

95% of donations were made online through the Razoo site, with 5% via mobile app. 84% of the Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, or other social channel that used the hashtag included a link – the most shared link was my blog post tribute , fundraiser link , the memorial site , and Mashable article. Online Memorial Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Their goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Our latest Web Executive Seminar, “ Web Sites without Walls ,” featured four speakers who are helping change the landscape for content sharing. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. It recently overtook Yahoo.com to become the United States' second-most visited site. You should put buttons on your organization's main site pointing to your page. Hold contests.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217.

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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

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Where's the conference tag?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They just finished a YouTube video contest. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. Using existing tools to run your site allows for plug-ins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

The Sitings contest invites students to propose an installation and the two proposals that win each year are awarded grants and displayed in the Museum. The Siskind Center gives students and the public the opportunity to pore over the photography in the Museum's large collection of works on paper.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

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. And the higher the stakes, the fewer qualified contestants exist (qualified either in expertise or fearlessness). Tags: game.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

If you've clicked on a link to the site from this post, congratulations--you are a ScratchR spectator. I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. ScratchR is not 100% safe, as I'll explain, but they have created a site that is fully functional for both kids and adults. I'm one of them.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Or a baking contest? If your town is famous for its strawberries, for example, you could consider having a contest where cooks’ recipes must feature that ingredient. Contestants in the cook-off can make a donation as an “entry fee,” and people who want to sample the entries can buy tasters’ tickets. A 50/50 raffle.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

One of the requirements set forth in the OGD was for executive departments and agencies to create a public feedback mechanism to solicit citizen feedback during the development of each department's or agency's Open Government Plan. Awards would be provided to students as publications of their ideas and USAID leadership recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Even though this comment was made on digg.com and not on our nature.org web site, I???d What were the concerns?

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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?). On the social sites that are intuitively fantastic for good rapport. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. Make the site interactive.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2007

Reopened to the public in July 2006, the NPG features a stunning building and a solid collection. to look askance at contests. Some of these artists, regardless of the status of their submission, continued contributing to the site for a year. Tags: exhibition interview usercontent. How good could it be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Molson reaches out to the community to find ways to spread the responsible drinking message, including supporting the TaxiGuy program and covering the cost of free public transit on New Year's eve. Molson launched a campaign to replace the public funding with private sector donations, starting with its own $20K donation.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

The event convened almost 300 passionate people, all coming together for a common goal: to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent, accountable and meaningfully accessible to the public. Contests: Portland's Civic App Challenge and Massachusetts' MassDot Developers Real-Time Challenge.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

OneWebDay provides an opportunity for communities to celebrate the power of the Web for positive change, to take action to protect what they value most about it, and to educate the public and policy-makers on the social, economic, and political impact of the Web. Please check out our Web site, send me an email, and follow us on Twitter @OWD.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Health care reformers very much wish to put a face on the problem, and dozens of groups have set up sites for people to read and publish their health care horror stories. A group of anti-reformers called the "Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance" has set up a petition-centric site called " Hands Off My Health."

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