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Online Fundraising Contests: Effective or Digital Litter?

Care2

world, cause marketing contests such as Pepsi Refresh and Chase Community Giving have caused a different kind of ruckus. Because in cause marketing contests, charities and ordinary citizens are encouraged to reach out to their online networks and ask people to vote for their favorite charities. In the Web 2.0 What do you think?

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10 Simple Nonprofit Twitter Tips

TechImpact

Try using hashtags.org to discover what hashtags are trending for your nonprofit. People around this time are taking a load off and are relaxing with some social networking over the lunch table. If you’re interested in reading more you can check out the original article by Julia Claire Campbell of JC Social Marketing.

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

Amy Sample Ward

"This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy. "This contest was the culmination of a two-part "vote for me" cause marketing strategy that started in November and has been rife with controversy.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Big Cat Rescue

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. The site currently has 1.6

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Infographic: 10 Things To Consider In Your Social Media Strategy

Care2

Remember the early days of social media when you did not have to cut through all of the noise and things felt more like a community rather than a popularity contest? Some of this clustering can also be applied to other networks like Facebook. 3) Brand Clusters - These focus on brands (including nonprofits), events, and trends.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Contest: User Generated Crap, er… Content

See3

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. The current Heinz contest is a great example. It might not be money.

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Three Strategies to Plan Campaigns and Engage Supporters

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For example, signing petitions, pledges, sharing your petitions or content on social networks and with their friends, family, and colleagues. You can also plan photo and caption contests on Facebook, Pinit contests on Pinterest, organize protests, and house parties, Fundraising appeals. Volunteer opportunities.