Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Second, we're co-sponsoring and helping plan the eDemocracy2 Camp in DC on Sunday, April 19 (one day before the 2009 Politics Online Conference). Third, we're participating in the Apps for America Contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The most interesting and useful application will be selected as the winner.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Environmental Impact. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Environmental Impact. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Get help designing an API.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

This helps you to plan a the event, and to ensure success. Hacking Autism was launched in June 2011 to seek new ideas for technology applications beneficial to people with autism. This will help everyone to work efficiently up to and through the execution of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Here’s a great example from Teach for America sharing a funny visual about goofy year-book photos.

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

America’s Giving Challenge is an amazing program from The Case Foundation that See3 had the opportunity to support this year. They make this happen through a competition that rewards nonprofits daily during the contest period and overall at the end. Check it out right now at America’s Giving Challenge. and Canada.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This is a huge opportunity that will help make it even easier for third parties to create valuable applications to aggregate, organize, and visualize government data. Pushing federal agencies to do more of the legwork up front will help third parties focus on creating value with the data rather than just burning hours to transorm it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

There's an unfortunate consensus emerging in the nonprofit sector that social media is only helpful for communicating with young people. Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Sure, he raised over $20 million for Haiti and an impressive array of non-profit organizations including American Red Cross , Oxfam America , Salvation Army , Habitat for Humanity , International Rescue Committee , and the United Nations Foundation used his services. I heard them talking (I couldn’t help it, they were loud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. for NGOs there.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application. HSUS ran a video contest during the outcry over the Michael Vick story that received 22 submissions, over 43,000 views of the contest intro video (featuring Hulk Hogan) , and garnered 2,000 new list members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To help us learn more about how to apply Lean Start Up ideas to nonprofit causes and organizations, Meg Rulli is the Social Media Director for Lean Impact and her colleagues will be contributing a regular blog post covering different aspects of the Lean Impact practices. They created a fake ATM, then used an iPad to create the ATM “program”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Main | Care2 Launches Americas Favorite Animal Shelter Contest » Monday Oct 13 2008 Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) Monday, October 13, 2008 at 01:21PM | by James OMalley Nonprofits take note: Google Analytics software application has shattered previous barriers to analyzing and optimizing websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

I spoke about creating a culture of authentic generosity in your network, Stacey Monk talked about her organization, Epic Change, and Tweetsgiving Campaign, and David Armano talked about how social media is strengthening weak ties and how he leveraged his network to help a woman named Daniella.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Inviting those people and giving them opportunities to engage with your organization and helping to further your mission. we were going to help each other get out of the ice. And the how millennials want to help. Surprisingly and excitingly, 47% want to help fundraise. Sarah: Yeah, definitely. It’s been years.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

A number of applications have been developed to organize causes on Facebook. " Obama's Organizing for America Page reposted it too. In the online context, it also helps leverage the wisdom of crowds to generate original ideas. In this case, a site is running a contest to caption this poster opposing Obama's plan.

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