NetWits

AUGUST 31, 2012

billion raised in 2011 (with an expected growth of 10% in 2012). Kickstart Your Supporters with 5 NEW Fundraising Contest Ideas. According to the Run Walk Ride fundraising council “The top thirty “thon” event fundraising programs generated $1.69 billion in gross revenue for charity last year, up $40.8 That’s right, $1.69

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The Technology for Good Contest sought to highlight the stories of how these groups use Microsoft software to help them create real community impact in Washington State. We're proud to announce the winners of this contest (in alphabetical order): read more. Microsoft believes technology can do amazing things.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

Here’s a snapshot of some of the top giving days from 2011: Let’s take a closer look at the impact and strategies behind Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Fundraising Results: Close to 18,000 people participated in this online fundraising contest resulting in over $2 million dollars being given to 1,200 participating nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2011

Our Digital Storytelling Event will begin January 13 and includes webinars, discussions, and a contest to show your work and win prizes. To enter the contest, create a digital story (60 seconds or less video or 5-panel picture story) that conveys your library's mission and work in a compelling and creative way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Leave a comment on this post explaining what your organization’s singular, most important activity will be in 2011 that will at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Note from Beth: Carol Cone was kind enough to offer several copies of her a book as a giveaway. Deadline: December 23rd.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

The 2011 Millennial Donor report , the second in an annual series, focuses on engaging Millennials in fundraising. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give. The data says we should move on. It’s an interesting and valuable report with a lot of great insights.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2011

The competition starts today - March 1 and ends March 28, 2011.( If you can write an original 4-8 line poem that reflects your non-profit's mission, your organization may be eligible for a Heart & Soul Grant of $10,000 or $5,000 USD! read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. My latest post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog is now up. You can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the copy below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Data from a recent Facebook contest we ran not show that we not only significantly increased our followers in a short amount of time, but we saw individuals then head over to our website to be engaged further. What is on your To Do List for 2011? We tweak and readjust along the way. Finally, you’ve got to love it!

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

In 2011, Blackbaud and the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council conducted an online survey of individuals who have participated in at least one run, walk or ride event in the last two years. Include a sample email and talk about the impact of gifts ( Did you know just raising $25 can provide sick kids with a toy this holiday?).

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Tableau

MAY 13, 2022

Three worthy contestants take center stage in front of a global audience and have 20 minutes to deliver a compelling and awe-inspiring story using the same data set. Based on the world-renowned Iron Chef cooking show, Iron Viz started as a Tableau Conference 2011 breakout session with a mere 300 people in attendance. How it began.

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Tableau

MAY 13, 2022

Three worthy contestants take center stage in front of a global audience and have 20 minutes to deliver a compelling and awe-inspiring story using the same data set. Based on the world-renowned Iron Chef cooking show, Iron Viz started as a Tableau Conference 2011 breakout session with a mere 300 people in attendance. How it began.

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Contest Storytelling Skills Global 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. I said that I wished contest designers would take a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to nonprofits! Designate a cheer leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

TechSoup Global, the leading technology place for nonprofits, just announced it will kick off their annual Online Digital Storytelling Challenge January 13, 2011. Last year, over 100 organizations participated, with top submissions earning prizes from Flip Video, Adobe, Flickr, and GoldMail.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! Did your organization create impactful videos in 2011? The 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is taking submissions starting February 1st. Are you a nonprofit? So what do the winning nonprofits get for participating?

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest. This session focuses on how to successfully get started with mobile technology, with Tonia Zampieri from Smart Online presenting. SMS/Text Most every device can send a text message.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The NTEN staff are great at posting the latest updates about sessions, coffee replenishment and fun contests. If you don’t want to follow everyone, at least enable SMS updates for @NTENorg , @ntenhross , @annaliese_h , @annanten and @brett_meyer. Bonus tip: the hashtag for the conference is #11ntc.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Nonprofit Videos Win Big In Tufts Contest- The NonProfit Times Feb 16, 2011: "Nonprofit Videos Win Big In Tufts ContestSix nonprofit video took honors in the Tufts University contest 501c3: Capturing Change on Camera inaugural video competition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

San Francisco-based Talkdesk now has $498 million in total funding since its inception in 2011. It was a Startup Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in 2012. “When you think about ordering things online, call, chat and email interactions became more important, and contact centers became core in every company.”.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2011

Enter the Tech for Good Contest for Nonprofits and Libraries in Washington State! That's where the 2011 Tech for Good Contest comes in. It can help others in the sector be inspired and learn from your examples, and can help demonstrate to funders and stakeholders the social return on technology investment. read more.

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Care2

MARCH 1, 2011

The contest is open to all nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Winners prizes can also win: The 2011 Bloggers Choice Award, where a blogger writing about the H&S Grant Award Program will choose a nonprofit applicant to receive a $1,000 cash grant.

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See3

JANUARY 19, 2012

Change the world, one video at a time.Bus to Us – P4A | 4:12 Waukegan Public Library This short documentary on the Waukegan Elementary School Bus to Us program was made for the Project for Awesome 2011 video contest.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival. Film Festival for Nonprofits – "Lights. Exclusively dedicated to cause-driven films, the festival and it's cash prizes for winning films gives nonprofits a new forum for promoting their causes.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 9, 2011

Nonprofit Offers Twitter Account to Contest Winner - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : "Nonprofit Offers Twitter Account to Contest Winner. August 8, 2011, 7:55 pm. By Derek Lieu.

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AFP Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Public voting begins for Toyota contest | MNN - Mother Nature Network : "he public voting round began yesterday when Toyota featured the first five finalists on the company’s official Facebook page. Each day through August 16, 2011 five new nonprofits will be featured.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

R , also provided by the contest organizers) achieves noticeable lower AUC of 0.81 (not shown in Figure 1). I use the topics.csv , kindly prepared by the contest organizers, to map a R package to one of the 25 LDA topics (See topic_models.R for details on running LDA, provided by the contest organizer).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

In April 2011, he was the lead developer on a project that won the Large Organization award in the World Bank's "Apps for Development" contest. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

From time to time I try to compete in data mining contests (Netflix, competitions on Kaggle and tunedit.org) — from my perspective it is a very good way to get real data mining experience. What tools I used My solution is written as Java application with Weka linked as library (as always when I try to compete in data mining contests).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. Internet platforms make it is easy for crowds to vote, rate, and provide feedback. Think Yelp , eBay , or Amazon.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The difference, like with communications, is that when you launch a crowd-sourcing contest or campaign, you are trying to get ideas or submissions from the network, the crowd – from people or organizations you don’t know. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community. Resources & Links.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2009 and 2010, I participated the UCSD/FICO data mining contests. Also, on the information page of the contest, it states that “In Australia, success rates have fallen to 20–25 per cent…”. Originally published at b log.kaggle.com on February 22, 2011. I’m also a part-time software developer for 11ants analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

NTCwinning 7: Musical Entertainment Photo by Trav Williams After the 2011 NTC, we decided that we needed to incorporate some music and local culture into the NTC. #NTCwinning 6: Ignite We're not sure exactly what it was this year but something clicked; this year’s Ignite presentations were well-attended and the presentations were amazing.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Veterans Hackday 2011 , kicked off a couple of weeks ago, and alotted their participants four days to create something that will benefits our veterans. Hacking Autism was launched in June 2011 to seek new ideas for technology applications beneficial to people with autism. This helps you to plan a the event, and to ensure success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Helping those companies to earn that honor are the perks they give their employees, some of which you might want to consider for 2011.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. The contest was a success in that judges had a hard time selecting the winners because of the quality and usefulness of the apps. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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