Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. Four bloggers wrote a post; one blogger used the banner.

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JULY 5, 2007

for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in New Media. Chris Penn one of the founders just let us know that they're running a contest. PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style community UnConference. I learned so much and the networking was awesome. I don't even podcast!

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Rich Leigh , co-founder of blogger outreach database Bloggabase , has a split audience and uses email to reach both effectively. Bloggers can expect more regarding blog news and tips of how to build better blogs and marketers can expect content related to working with bloggers more successfully,” says Leigh.

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MARCH 4, 2006

On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). I know I read about it in someone's blog this week, but now I've forgotten whose so my apologies for not giving a blogger out there credit for the find). The project will continue through the spring and into early summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Okay, with all these contests perhaps you're worried about Cause Fatigue. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. Projects working in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Participated in our online contests such as photo competitions, etc. Were comprised of a mix of people including activists, people who were interested in learning more about climate change, people who were on the fence, reporters and bloggers who covered climate change, volunteers, donors, board members, etc. It’s subjective.

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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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JULY 6, 2011

The editor/blogger can also email individually and thank them for reading—and why not throw in a few questions about what content they’d like to see and what other blogs they read? It’s along the lines of a weekly caption contest, but there’s an educational component to it. Public shout-outs go far to keep readers coming back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! With my compressed schedule for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign , I shouldn't be promoting the t-shirt option, let alone making a donation to something else but I really want a Creative Commons t-shirt for the suitcase campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. They use fun conversation starters. How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. Flickr photo contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ???

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Our very own Elliot Harmon , talented writer , blogger , forum host , poet , and all-around-good-guy was notified last week that he's won Ashoka's "Blog Your Way to Hyderabad" contest. We're pleased as punch. Check out Elliot's winning blog post here. Here's more about the event: read more.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. It's interesting that they are targeting bloggers as part of their publicity strategy. Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam.

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JANUARY 26, 2008

Joseph Jaffe offered bloggers a review copy of his boo, Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership. Congratulations to Chas Offutt, Social Media Evangelist for American Rivers. Since I had already had purchased a copy, I did a book giveaway.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

See3 is a proud media sponsor of this event which will engage websites, programmers, bloggers and nonprofits around the world interested in using their skills and networks for social change. See the slideshow below for details about the contest (hint: there are exciting prizes!). Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What was the LOLseals Photo Caption Contest ? It was a photo caption contest based on the popular LOLcats site where users share photos of Cute Cats with funny captions. We learned from a previous photo contest that flopped that if you make it hard for people to figure out how to participate and time consuming, they won't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! Thanks again to Adam and Mark. I really appreciate it!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Blogger's Choice Award: Lastly, there will be a Blogger's Choice Award of $1,000 (USD). The CTK Foundation will choose a blogger (hopefully me) who will hand-pick one winner from any category. Applications for all Heroes with a Heart grant awards close Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at midnight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Perhaps inspired by his recent Second Life Photography Award , my favorite edtech blogger, CogDog (aka Alan Levine in RL and CDC Barkely (woof, woof) announced a NMC photo contest. (Be I also wanted to mention that New Media Consortium is having fab event called "Impact of Digital Media Sympoisum."

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. We also asked the community to vote and rate the examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0, That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

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. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? It’s a dumb question because I know you can. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did ! in honor of his late mother.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. For example, I entered "social media" and "blogging" on my profile, and Sparked.com paired me with a challenge from an organization asking for bloggers to write about diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? This conversation was started by. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I've heard that there will be more screencasting or at least one as this blogger notes. And, if you are so inclined, you can vote a thumbs up as I entered it into the contest. If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It was a one-day event packed full of panels and breakout sessions with leaders from prominent women’s organizations such as Feminist Majority , NOW and NARAL as well as feminist bloggers, artists and activists. What I liked most about the conference was the diversity of people that attended.

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OCTOBER 30, 2010

Geoff Livingston wrote a provocative blog post about “how we are in the midst of a new media revolution where norms and “best practices&# have been dictated by an echo chamber, mostly by top tier bloggers, that don’t necessarily understand the medium or deserve the ability to dictate best practices. Give me a break!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. When I heard about this story, I was curious about Drew's tatoos. Steve's been a huge supporter of the Sharing Foundation. Thank you Steve!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Advertising Article: Video blogger Steve Garfield recently shared an article with me called " Ten Lessons for Marketers About Viral Video. There was also a follow up post here. This week there are two more articles with advice that isn't sleezy, one from a for-profit perspective and the other an nonprofit perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Which one worked best? And if you???re

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