Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Having built nine chapters and a community of over 300 committed designers in just over a year, Project H Design has already launched over 20 projects in 6 countries – water transport solutions, a playground for active math education, designs for foster care therapy and more, all aimed at having a quick and real impact on people’s lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest.

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CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2021

If you have a similar event or tradition that is a part of your chapter, consider adding a fundraising component. If you need to update your chapter house, fund scholarships, or complete a particular project, a fundraiser that’s dedicated to raising those funds will be quite effective. Competition. Information Is Power. Spirit Wear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

” So, I immediately jumped to Chapter 6, “Enhancing Your Facebook Page with Applications.” Sweepstakes Applet: If you considering running a contest, GOSO’s Sweepstakes applet makes it easy to manage. If you use survey monkey, they also have a Facebook App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 8, 2011

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists and List Numbers As Popularity Contests. Will Twitter lists become an graveyard of outdated lists? Maybe we'll see some tools to automate list maintenance, widgets , and clients. The problem with lists is that there is always someone left off the list and that can lead to hurt feelings as Chris Brogan suggested in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

All 700+ chapters are participating in the campaign. Since the great wall fell, we've been able to promote initiatives like the Western Union Foundation contest to all of our chapters and blood regions. In order to keep the fund healthy, we set a goal of raising $100 million back in September.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. In addition, I'm sending the winner my review copy of Mitch Joel's Six Pixels of Separation because I think she can learn a lot from Chapter 14 on Participation 2.0. and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. asked our chapters if it was valuable to them in telling their story and getting info out, made adjustments based on their feedback. . We asked our chapters if it helped them get info out. Our own chapters learned the newsroom address. offer reliable situational awareness. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I scan the table of contents and the index and jump to the parts that I'm most interested in. For this book, I was like a moth to flame to Chapter 18: A New Guide for Metrics. The chapter is a great overview for the C-Level suite. I wrote an entire chapter about this for the new NTEN book " Technology to Meet Your Mission.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals. The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do''s. (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do''s. (..)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. ARC - we are set up similarly, Robin Parker does Oregon Trail chapter for example. Fail formally - protesting Wendy’s with a photo sharing with a protest sign but only got a few people doing it, heard so much about how hard it was for people to participate, etc.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Feeling disrespected was cited by 57% of those who left as the reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

This one was very creative, dubbed " Trick or Tweet " focused on retweeting, incorporated a contested, and was cooked up by the good folks at FutureNow. I'm sure there will be a lively chapter about nonprofits and twitter. October, 2008 We see one of our first examples of using Twitter to fundraise in connection with a holiday.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Feeling disrespected was cited by 57% of those who left as the reason.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And it was everywhere with the inaugural class of the Find Your Pajamas Nonprofit Business Intensive & Pitch Contest. After spending the day together, I could barely find the words to say when I was wrapping up the day and announcing the winner of our pitch contest. Almost 20 years ago, a little girl asked me what pajamas were.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do's.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 28, 2015

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

If you're curious, there's a whole chapter about it in this book " Geeks for Good." I just want everyone to know that I plan to continue to share what I am learning and after this contest ends on January 31st - minus the ask for the money. MediaJumpStart, 2002). " This is a wonderful community.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do''s. (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Use Facebook to ask your folks for ideas for fundraisers, should we pick a day and everyone does their own thing like Red Nose Day , or should we have one event in person, maybe a lower key breakfast this year instead of a fancy dinner, or maybe a virtual event or contest? Don’t prescribe, listen and learn.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Additionally, we reach out to people on our social networks or through our network of chapters and support groups. Thanks to a brainstorming session, we came up with our highly successful “Sclerodoodle” artwork contest, an opportunity for supporters to create artwork around a theme (I.AM.SCLERODERMA.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Heather Carpenter from AspirationTech points us to two nonprofit studies -- one about employment trends in the sector and the other nonprofit effectiveness.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 22, 2006

What we'd rather do is include our boiler-plate chapters whenever possible, and in your grid just point you to the page that explains our methodology, or our tools, or how much liability we carry. A focus on requirements that you suspect might not be available from all the contestants. This saves us time. Why should you care?

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AFP Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Conference Participants Crowd Source for a Good Cause - Resource Center - AFP : "n Sunday afternoon of the AFP International Fundraising Conference, BJ Bischoff (consultant and AFP Master Trainer) and Nathan Hand (director of advancement at The Oaks Academy and president of the AFP Indiana Chapter) presented a session about winning crowd-sourced charity (..)

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See3

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral. Feeling disrespected was cited by 57% of those who left as the reason.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

The story is not about misleading ads or about consumer product sales or about local chapters run amok. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? The Red Cross is an example of an organization that needs to get back to their authentic story. The authentic story is about helping people.

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

Lambert , CAE, Executive Director, New York Chapter, American College of Physicians , Lynda Layer , CAE, Massachusetts Medical Society and Donna Seawards , CAE CNAP, Executive Director, Arizona Geriatrics Society, American College of Physicians IL & IN Chapters. Association Management Challenge.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Their most recent books include Going Places, a picture book about creativity and engineering, and a STEM-meets-Arts (STEAM) early chapter book series called Sydney & Simon: Full STEAM Ahead! He is a TEDx speaker and has previously won the Toastmasters UK & Ireland International Speech Contest. Simon Scriver.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral.

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