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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

so we had a particularly interesting angle for him on the story and I contacted him and was interviewed for the news that night. At Wellstone Action, its a running gag in our trainings that we say "Lawn signs dont vote!", This article was written by Deanna Zandt , a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. In the survey and interviews process, that is the primary way to reach everyone.