Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2010

World’s Best Presentation Contest 2010. Slideshare has run a regular contest, “The World’s Best Presentation,&# and this year is adding a nonprofit category. The contest is sponsored by 3M and there are some great prizes, including the 3M pocket projector and Macbook.

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2010

This year, See3, NTEN and YouTube received over 750 submissions for the contest - a record! Head over to YouTube and: The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation , plus custom designed Flip Video cameras to all finalists. In just that short time period, the use of video by nonprofits has exploded.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2010

Taglines are incredibly powerful, which is why I'm always so excited when our fantastic board member Nancy Schwartz launches her tagline contest, and now she's back for round three! . All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late fall. This could be your organization in 2010!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Submissions close January 22, 2010." " 1 vote can equal $1 million « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog – "Today is the first day people can vote in the final round of the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook.

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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. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

millions PCs in Q4 2010. 79% of respondents volunteered in 2010, and they prefer to do it in groups. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest. No such thing as un-connected: you have to be relevant wherever they are, when they want. Why mobile? million smartphones and 92.1 most over 45. Smartphone Apps.

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See3

APRIL 22, 2010

We recently announced the winners of the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards, but the contests don’t end there. Our friends at the American Constitution Society have just announced a contest of their own. The deadline is May 15, 2010, so get your camera out and act fast! Tags: Video youtube contest video camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Tags: contest crowdsourcing. Photo: Jim Harrison.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Consequently, I was pretty excited when the Alliance for Biking and Walking asked me to spread the word about their People Powered Movement Photo Contest. In response, the Alliance is holding a People Powered Movement Photo Contest. The winning images will be published in the 2010 March/April issue of Momentum Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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See3

JUNE 24, 2010

Tags: Nonprofits contest messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In this edition of our 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference podcast, I chat with Laura Efurd from Zero Divide. Here's a preview: If you work up an appetite during Laura's session, she reminded me that there were a couple of contestants from the ATL on the last season of Top Chef. Her session, " Got Gov? Eno by Zara.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. .&# Um, Matt, Sourceforge has been basically irrelevant for years, since people started moving their projects off of that platform, and onto their own platforms. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Journeys for Change is offering the chance to win a fully-paid nine-day tour of leading Social Entrepreneurs in India.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2010

The submission period for the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest ends at midnight tonight (Pacific time). This is it. We're down the wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

This session will be the culmination of a webinar series leading up to the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. We will also name the winner of the webinar series storytelling contest. Leads: Roger Burks and Michaela Hackner. Vote for "Culture of Storytelling" now ! Storytelling Techniques in Practice. Level: Beginner.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. A common form of contest among companies is the “create a commercial&# contest. Among organizations, contests may seem like a short-cut to get compelling content, and cheaply. The current Heinz contest is a great example.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 18, 2010

The public-domain mobius loop universal recycling symbol with three arrows in the triangle that we've adapted for our GreenTech logo was designed by Gary Anderson in 1970 as part of a contest sponsored by the Container Corporation of America for the original Earth Day in 1970.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

We’re launching an ad contest: “Obama in 30 Seconds.&# Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. Ideas can be submitted and commented on until July 13, 2010. “We want Oregonians to get engaged with us.”.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Submissions are open until March 12, 2010, so get in on this contest if you can! The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards is looking for the best nonprofit videos of the year, with a chance for great public exposure, $2500 for your organization, and other great prizes. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. Corporations use these contests to engage potential customers. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2010

between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined. What’s the ROI of Online Voting and Fundraising Contests? This decline was driven by a drop in the average gift size.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2010

the host of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival for July 2010, I want to tap your collective wisdom to explore the theme of: How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog You’re invited to submit your best blog posts for consideration any time before Tuesday, July 27th. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Thing is, they don't have to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In addition to three video public service announcements we produced featuring Minnesota Vikings Defensive End Brian Robison, Minnesota Twins Pitcher Glen Perkins and Minnesota R&B artists Stokley Williams (of Mint Condition) & OSO, we also partnered with Youthprise to sponsor a video contest.

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See3

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

We know nonprofits, we know video, and know that nonprofits made some amazing video in 2010. See3, in partnership with YouTube, is excited to announce that this year’s DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards will be accepting entries starting today February 4th. It’s time to let those videos shine and win some awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We're at it again in 2010, this time with more YouTube -y goodness! The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions.

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See3

JANUARY 25, 2007

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? No contest. Speaker: Mark Rovner, Sea Change Strategies. He cares.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2010

We just ran our Adobe Show Your Impact Design Contest for 2010 at TechSoup, and while there are some great and deserving winners of the contest which will each get a $1,000 cash grant plus a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Premium for their organization, there are also some other great entries worth mentioning.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2010

The Paperless Choice Challenge submission period ends August 16th, 2010, so get your entries in today. Four prizes totalling $20,000 will be awarded to organizations demonstrating innovation and results in paperless fundraising. Paperless Choice is a program of Catalog Choice funded by the Overbrook Foundation.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

In case you hadn't heard , Convio is sponsoring 50 NTEN memberships to nonprofits nominated in their NPHero contest. Georgia Center for Nonprofits press release about our collaboration for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta. Jordan Viator explains. the idea behind the drive and how you can participate. Thanks, Convio!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

NTEN set up an event area on Slideshare for the NTC 2010. Some events have set up branded channels, like the Bar Camp Channel. (5) National Wildlife Federation uses Slideshare for its presentations, but also to promote the winners of their photo contests. 5) Tool For Networked Nonprofits To Share Draft Documents and Get Feedback.

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