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Be A Better Inspiration: Vote For Beth's Blog Readers on Yahoo

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I just entered you, dear readers, in the Be A Better Inspiration Contest over at Yahoo. The contest is about telling a story about someone's good deed on behalf of an nonprofit organizations. GO TO THE CONTEST PAGE [link] 2. And thank you. And Leng Sopharath says thank you too! Here's how to vote.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

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Sharing Foundation Very Brief Update: 600 Uniforms Delivered!

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I did want to report on how we're beginning to put the generous dollars you all contributed (matched by Yahoo) to work. As many of you know, the Sharing Foundation won the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest at the end of 2006. The blog campaign raised $49,000 which was matched by Yahoo.

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Wired Wealthy, Budha and Freud.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We The connection between these two items are two people, Mark Rovner and Katya Andresen. The Wired Wealthy. We raised $53,000, plus we got a $50,000 prize).

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Social Media Monitoring in 30 Minutes or Less

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Get the Social Media Fire Hose (using Yahoo Pipes). The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. You can always add more, but start here and learn to master them for your needs. Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Nonprofits Using Flickr for Good

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You can see the Humane Society Seal Photo caption contest here. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits. And all of the entries can be seen here.

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Social Media ROI Case Study Slam Panel at 08NTC: Carie Lewis, Human Society

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Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. Also helps for communicating with UGC contestants and winners. s choice award.