Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

You're looking at widget created by Lend4Health as part their participation in the Ideablob contest to win $10,000 for new small business ideas.   Then I looked at the other projects and noticed Nate Ritter  - whose used Twitter during the San Diego fires also had an idea.  

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Earlier this year, we hosted the first Microsoft-TechSoup Show Your Impact Story Contest and I wandted to take a moment to highlight one of the winners. One such resource, is a project of the Pangea Foundation , one of the winners of that contest I mentioned earlier. Elliot blogged about another one of the winners last week.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Check out the winners of SlideRocket's Nonprofit Presentation Contest for great examples. With GIS tools, nonprofits have been able to identify homeless populations in San Diego, plan public utilities in small, underserved communities in Ohio, and track food bank services to low-income neighborhoods in Texas and California.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

By using social media museums like the San Diego Zoo are able to help people around the world enjoy their incredible exhibits. How the San Diego Zoo Uses Social Media to Bring Their Exhibits to Life. Creating interesting contest. Here are three things the San Diego Zoo does well on YouTube: Announce new programs.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals. Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge was a contest to create innovative web applications and widgets, using Social Action's API, that promote opportunities to take action all over the web -- with $10,000 in prizes!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Last week I hosted a little contest to win a copy of Darius Graham's book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World. Since he started S4K in San Diego, it has grown to over 30 programs in over 20 states, powered by over 2,500 volunteers.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

By using social media museums like the San Diego Zoo are able to help people around the world enjoy their incredible exhibits. How the San Diego Zoo uses social media to bring their exhibits to life. Creating interesting contest. Here are 3 things the San Diego Zoo does well on YouTube: Announce new programs.

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