Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The content strategy was to reflect the same community focus on the blog onto our other channels, both highlighting community members’ content as well as creating a space where people could continue sharing on their platform of choice. Share what you’d like to try! Share what you’d like to try!

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JUNE 2, 2011

Groupon , Care2 , Zynga and the like are already using gaming elements to drive fundraising, engagement, word-of-mouth sharing and stickiness amongst other things. The UGA Relay for Life Chapter offered additional contests the week of the event, with prizes ranging from a Smartphone to airline tickets. Which begs the question.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

I had so much fun, in fact, that I shared screen shots and some thoughts around the way organizations could put a tool like this to use. (If You have to share what you learn! Share Your Questions to Win. If you’re interested in participating, please share: The name of your organization. That’s it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). They want to share in more than one medium. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

billion Likes and comments per day, Facebook is a mainstay in our world. Here are 5 things they do well on their Facebook page: Sharing interesting content. Creating interesting contest. Sharing pictures. Share in the comments below. Understandably so, with 845 million monthly active users and 2.7

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

. —– Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group? In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. If you have, you certainly aren’t alone. The ins and outs.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. To participate in this contest, you need to submit your idea on JustMeans and fill out the full grant proposal from Green Mountain Coffee. February 16th – March 21st: Public comments on ideas.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Hosting contests, sweepstakes, giveaways and other types of promotions is a common strategy for businesses looking to build their following on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media channels. Share links to premium content. Here are seven ways to use social media to improve the quality of your email list.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. By sharing, blogging, and Retweeting consistent topics, your feeds and posts will organically generate more traffic because people will know what to expect, and seek your feed out.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Read the post below or visit SSIR to read and comment with that community. Both campaigns created opportunity for people to participate and then share it with their networks and make personal recommendations. A compelling video won over 12% of donors, while fundraising contests only 42% inspired 5% to give.

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

And by all means, please share your secrets in the comments below. Create team-specific communications and contests. – OK, now that you’ve heard my 3 big tips it’s time to share yours with the readers here. Leave a comment. I think you’ll find some useful stuff here. Focus on team captains.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

This channel typically shares videos about video games and sports, perfectly matched with an audience interested in fast food. YouTube star Anthony Quintal was one of these attendees who shared his experiences in a video that saw over 500,000 views. Build an engaging contest around a star’s core audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Generous Blogger Poster So many of you enjoyed and shared my post, 20 Ways to Be a Generous Blogger , I asked the hubs to create a poster for us. To enter, you can either: Nominate your favorite generous blogger by leaving a comment on one of their posts telling them why you think they are a generous. Share Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2010

This year we took a more intercative approach to sharing the findings and learnings. It was done through a series of blog posts called AGC Conversational Case Studies and encouraged the public to weigh in via comments to the blog posts, live CaseSoup video discussions, and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Share the contest with your peers and increase your odds of winning each time you use the hashtag #nphero on Twitter. Leave a comment at www.convio.com/nphero and give a shout out to your hero for everyone to see. So what are you waiting for? Get your nomination and recognition on over at the Nonprofit Holiday Heroes page!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The social strategy includes the widget above that can be customized to show the charity and be shared on different social networking sites or blogs. They have created many social sharing opportunities, for example: Visit Create Change select a charity and share the widget with your network. Here's my contest.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The JustGiving team is always great about sharing stories, lessons, and insights – so I'll be watching to see how this new tool goes!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It's really interesting as far as mobile fundraising, but also just that the ARC are able to gather, analyze and share data like this in close to real time. Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You can even pull this off in multiple long-distance locations where several smaller groups gather in-person and combine to share their experience virtually with other group locations via livestream and watch party event software features. 15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Thank you to those who have already voted or commented! I’m so honored by your support and really look forward to a chance at sharing all the work from this network of changemakers with those on this journey! Like I said, I cannot wait!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Tags: roundup bookmarks casestudies community contest facebook fundraising list marketing nonprofits postalicious resources socialmedia strategy technology trends.

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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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2009

Thanks to my friend Sherry Truhler at Red Apple Auctions , I found out about a cool contest for nonprofits this morning. 3banana is sponsoring the contest. Basically, you try out their online product then ask people to comment on Twitter on why your cause should win. The contest is called Share to Win.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my own feelings: technology should be used to help, facilitate, and empower the change communities already want to be making. First are those I call the Ambassadors.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Share the contest with your peers and increase your odds of winning each time you use the hashtag #nphero on Twitter. Leave a comment at www.convio.com/nphero and give a shout out to your hero for everyone to see. So what are you waiting for? Get your nomination and recognition on over at the Nonprofit Holiday Heroes page!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Hoping someone can update the final results in the comments). This post is a quick round up of what I learned in Vegas and sharing it here because it’s too good to stay in Vegas! Danielle shared a story about making mistakes on Twitter. for every hashtag mention to cancer charities. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

With over 2 billion active monthly users , you can connect with a broader audience there by sharing engaging posts. Share compelling imagery. For instance, you might share photos from last year’s successful event or a behind-the-scenes look at your event setup. Host contests and giveaways to boost engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from April 17th. Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I’ve never run an ad for more fans, or done silly contests or anything else, you know? Checking in at a place. My first reaction was – what does that stupid number mean? His take: “It is a very shallow metric. And it does feel somewhat gratifying that I think we’ve been right all along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

I’m here to keynote Connecting Up Conference, While I am in OZ, I invited Jon Stahl to share this amazing case study. The Society has a large and vibrant online community, including a Facebook page with more than 300,000 fans, and many of their posts get thousands of likes and hundreds of clicks and shares.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. Backtype allows you to watch what’s being said in blog comments around the web. This way you can share it with others internally, access it on the go and get to it no matter what computer you’re using. Please start asking in the comments below. Pretty simple eh?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It was a really rich discussion – thank you to all those who joined in, shared, asked questions, and contributed! Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Leading nonprofits practitioners will share all about how they use measurement to improve strategy and prove results. I’m sure there are plenty of other folks suggesting sessions … make sure to let us know in the comments. VolunteerMatch has a few suggestions. SmallAct has some things to look forward to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Johnson & Johnson sponsored a contest where they donated $1 for each selfie photo donated through Donate a Photo. Share the link in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

We’re far more connected to stories and information than we have ever been, yet the noise and ubiquity of the digital world makes it harder to surface and share personal stories of change and impact. What role could digital medium-specific competitions or contests play in increasing demand? By Jay Geneske, 2014.

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