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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here’s a Thing We Love: Ash Shepherd is NTEN''s new Education Director ! We’d welcome him to the party, but he’s been rocking the NTEN party for a good long while already. Makers of the world united digitally this summer to host 2,513 events in 86 countries. Inspire ” video contest. Read more posts on our blog.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio , a weekly online radio show that Tony hosts, is Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%. I’ve donated a bunch of NTEN books and swag, and Tony’ll give away his book and free consulting hours, in Planned Giving and Charity Registration. We’ll also give out prizes to live and archive listeners.

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See3

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation , to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. ? We are thrilled to partner with YouTube for the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions. You can register here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2012

poetryslam At NTEN, we love all the various tools and technologies that help us communicate and connect with our community, ensure that all of our work and cat videos are backed up, and our data is both useable and safe. NTEN is hosting the Nonprofit Technology Poetry Slam at SXSW. But, we don't think we're alone.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

It was amazing to see so many NTEN members at the NTC last week! The good folks of the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center are hosting a 26-stop Disaster Preparedness Roadshow beginning April 23. video contest and earn the chance to win money for your cause! Have more news to share? Submit it to the 2012 Lights.

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The grand prize winner will be announced at NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans on March 21. The finalists will be shown on www.DoGooder.tv

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Have a nice meal, hold a long conversation for the first time all day and venture away from the hotel to get to know our host city. The NTEN staff are great at posting the latest updates about sessions, coffee replenishment and fun contests. Bonus tip: bring cash. Follow on twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. I'm reminded of the March of Dimes - flickr contest - that asked people to photograph where they kept their change because a handful of change is what preemie weighs at birth.

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See3

MAY 1, 2007

Unfortunately, Katrin neglected to mention DoGooderTV, but we know that next time she will give DoGooderTV, which hosted the NTEN – See3 Nonprofit Video Contest , a big plug. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? You can watch the video here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" " Duh: the NTEN community! > Learn more about the contest at [link]. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Another resource roundup comes from Kivi Leroux Miller , who hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, themed, ''Getting Along with Others'' in the nonprofit world. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! There are even a few international reports.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Many of you know Annaliese as a great resource for any questions regarding all aspects of NTEN’s resources and nonprofit technology in general. Last year she changed her focus at NTEN to became our Research and Publications Director, and she’s already receiving huge honors for her work. Or, are you planning to?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2008

Arial Goldberg, Common Knowledge, winner of video camera I am in New Orleans this week because the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN is taking place. As part of the workshop, there was a contest to giveaway a video camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Another resource roundup comes from Kivi Leroux Miller , who hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, themed, ''Getting Along with Others'' in the nonprofit world. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! There are even a few international reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

The contest is hosted by YouTube, NTEN , and the marketing firm See3. Four winners will receive $3,500 in cash prizes donated by by Cisco, and also free registrations to the upcoming NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis in April. Winners will also be featured on You Tube's Spotlight Channel on April 12.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I have just returned from a week in New Orleans where I participated in the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

They are planning a fun panel in Washington, DC to showcase a diverse range of these bold ideas, and OneWebDay, with some help from our sponsors at Democracy in Action , will host an action tool on our Web site to help people communicate their own bold ideas to their representatives. Happy OneWebDay!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online. 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

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

Along with balloons and birthday treats, CDS Global will be hosting an online game to be played via on tablets at our booth. Come learn why so many rely on Sage’s fund accounting and fundraising solutions, hosted services, and donation processing tools and enter for your chance to win an iPad. CDS Global. Salsa Labs.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." Hold contests. Previously, we've discussed our approaches to Twitter , Scribd , and SlideShare. Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. Forum One's Facebook Page.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Come learn why so many rely on Sage’s fund accounting and fundraising solutions, hosted services, and donation processing tools and enter for your chance to win an iPad. Here’s a great opportunity to participate in SmartOnline’s ‘Invent Your Mobile App’ Contest, and explore these possibilities! Is Your Brand Mobile?

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Storytelling is our focus for May, but every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 50 cities. Victoria, British Columbia: Branding As a Nonprofit: Putting Your Brand to Work for You.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff. Rather, it makes sense to start with listening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Offering free webinars, gated content (such as research reports or infographics), online contests, and online petitions have the ability to grow your email list quickly by hundreds or thousands, but require an ongoing time and financial investment to create the content. Nonprofit Tech for Good recommends ILLUSIO and NTEN.

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