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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. org campaign has done really well. This is something that the 350.org

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Mentions at different times and places during any festivals you host. Photo and Bio. It was super cool.

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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

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. We’re leading up to it providing webinars and chats, but will be hosting an awards mixed reality event in February.

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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Most Jewish nonprofits know that this is the best excuse to come up with punny costumes and read the Megillah, but even if you aren’t an org focused on Judaism, you could team up with a local JCC, synagogue, or Hillel: This is also a holiday where it’s tradition to give back. Buy an hour with Daylight Savings Time… (second Sunday in March).

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Guest Post: Networking Tips for the 2011 NTC from a Former Newbie

NTEN

Bring a pen to write down your twitter handle on your organization’s card, or to jot down a personal note about your org. 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. Bring business cards. Exchanging business cards is great! Bonus tip: bring cash.

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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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