AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

We highly recommend digital scavenger hunts and photo contests to up the ante in the online format! Gamification Techniques for In-Person Events. In-person events are very familiar with gamification techniques. Consider photo contests from both in-person and online attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Enter online fundraising contests. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

As an added bonus, he also shared some thoughts at the end about video blogging techniques. ( I'm introducing the the Green Charity Donation Contest! This Harry's Green Geek Tip #3 is about washing your cloths in cold water and was inspired by this post from Crunchy Goddess.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

With the right mindset and techniques, fundraisers can transform what feels like a burden into a rewarding experience of community, purpose, and achievement. Report progress – Broadcast achievements to build momentum and prompt peers to give. Give first – Lead by example and get the ball rolling with your own contribution.

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See3

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Using stop motion technique more common with animation, it is a nice way to get people to pay attention to something pretty mundane. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Sure they do, but so does an engaging story. I was thinking about this when I saw this video, Pancake Man.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

Share Your #npfail story by April 30th and you will have a chance to win a Microsoft Surface or other schwag from the Case Foundation that is sponsoring the contest. Now you have some practical techniques for learning from failure and a reward! What’s your #npfail story?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

." AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. So, what’s different about this contest than other online contests?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? How have you used social media to personalize your interactions with potential supporters?

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OneCause

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Test your golfers’ skills on a par 3 with a contest called “Closest to the Pin.” In order to show the current leader, use a creative contest marker that ties into your organization or theme. To keep track of your sponsorship offerings, manage sponsorships with event fundraising software by OneCause.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Come prepared with a couple of different proposed partnership ideas, like a social media contest or an event sponsorship. It’s essential to discuss data collection techniques when reviewing any and all sponsorship opportunities. If the organization seems interested in working together, make it even easier for them to say yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It leverages peer-to-peer style fundraising techniques leading up to events like galas and auctions to call on your nonprofits’ top supporters to get more involved than ever before. Incorporate Text-to-Give in Ambassador Fundraising Peer-to-peer ambassador fundraising is a way to take social fundraising to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. It does have a Star Wars theme, but he created a fun caption contest.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

this is one of the best fundraising techniques to use. But instead of asking for a monetary sponsorship, enhance your relationship by adding a fun twist to the collaboration, such as a friendly competition or contest. Sponsorships with businesses and corporations in your community are a superb way to connect and expand your network.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

by both the contestants and the survey respondents. Others yet are capable of either or both techniques. The premise of the game, as you may recall, was a competition between the members of two families to see which family could more quickly and accurately guess the results of survey questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. This can be put practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. Let me explain. One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

You can apply the technique to blogs, too. It’s along the lines of a weekly caption contest, but there’s an educational component to it. More Clicks, Less Filling Also why a weekly caption contest or Wordless Wednesday-type column works so well: When you update it, you can repost it on your organization’s Facebook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. More Advanced Techniques.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2012

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Techniques for More Engagement. “ This produced a rich conversation on techniques. This was the first time I noticed people posting on the wall taking to one another, not me. The thread also includes some great nuggets about streamlining the content strategy as well as streamlining interactions with fans.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. Have I left anything out?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

In this session -- a continuation of last year's "Better Online Storytelling" panel -- we'll explore successful, specific techniques to get your organization started finding and telling its best stories. Storytelling Techniques in Practice. We will also name the winner of the webinar series storytelling contest. Level: Beginner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm the moderator for the Flickr for Nonprofits Online Affinity Group over at NTEN and during a recent exchange about nonprofits using online photo and (video) contests to call attention to the causes, Cordellia and Susanne caught my attention. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

But, if you're doing a contest and you wanted to make a little easy to get contact information - required registration before your edit can be useful. Techniques like this can help build momentum. Instant Gratification and Surprise! Instant Gratification and Surprise! What are some other ways to offer incentives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

And, there was a protest against Target using that technique (holding signs) although it was not on flickr: [link]. I'm reminded of the March of Dimes - flickr contest - that asked people to photograph where they kept their change because a handful of change is what preemie weighs at birth. Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers. Come learn the ups and downs of these contests from brands that sponsor them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

There are contests to push filmmakers to “ tell the story behind the still ” and television producers are turning to this compact video recording technology. There are tons of lens options and you can use advanced film techniques like shallow depth of field and pulling focus. The HD DSLR video revolution is here. Rent or Buy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

We haven’t launched a major social media campaign since our brainstorming session but are planning to develop a measurement pilot the next time we execute our semi-annual cartoon caption contest or a Facebook campaign involving one of our legal cases. What advice would you give to others?

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See3

JANUARY 23, 2008

They have had video contests, and have made lots of 30-second spots. At See3 we’ve been exploring this direct response video technique for a while. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? They are no strangers to using video either. Today I saw something different from MoveOn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

How could I efficiently use movement, interaction with peers, and report outs without wandering around Oprah style? [I improvised a technique in the moment that worked for the layout of the room that I will share in another post]. First start off with who is everyone using these tools outside of the organization and is interested.

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See3

JANUARY 25, 2007

Workman used to work in traditional collage techniques but has now moved to digital imaging. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? The women are in varying states of dress and emotions – some engage us eye to eye, others avert their gaze. Opens tonight, 6-8pm, at Lennon, Weinberg, 514 W.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

With the passage of this law, it is also an opportune time to showcase a few online tools, techniques, and communications strategies that some pretty cool nonprofits (some of them our clients) are using to amplify the voice of the healthy kids movement. PreventObesity.net : This site was developed by my Forum One comrades. " campaign.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

I get their emails — like I do with many other organizations — so I can see what they’re up to and learn from a variety of techniques about best practices in online advocacy and fundraising. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. I needed to do that for myself! The thought of consuming 68 hot dogs makes me feel a little uncomfortable.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. By then, recorded music was no longer just the document of a performance—it was a composite of style, hooks, and production techniques, an extension of a popular personality’s image within a current sound. It can be a big mess, or a quiet surprise.

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