Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have joined forces to bring you a September full of social media learning! Coordinated Universal time Topic: Instagram photo contests. All month long, we're putting on events and publishing content to sharpen your social media skills. New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Noon Central time / 1:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. " The contest began November 5, 2012 and all entries are due by February 28, 2013.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The difference, like with communications, is that when you launch a crowd-sourcing contest or campaign, you are trying to get ideas or submissions from the network, the crowd – from people or organizations you don’t know. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community. But we need new resources, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. Paid media: Old advertising model

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in prizes. TechSoup's storytelling campaign will have four prizes: Best Nonprofit Video, Best Nonprofit Photo, an Audience Award, and a Stories of Tomorrow Award. March 22, 2016 — First NetSquared Storymakers 2016 meetup in DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. Finally an interesting question over at Netsquared from Cauzoo, " Bells and Whistles, Do They Help you Get Heard ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. see photo of Quintus Jett here ) Ethos Roundtable now has a blog where you can find summaries and links to resources from meetings. Cross posted at Netsquared

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. March 22, 2016 — First NetSquared Storymakers 2016 meetup in DC. April 4, 2016 — Storymakers contest opens and new educational curriculum on digital storytelling launches. May 31, 2016 — Contest closes.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I realized that I only thought about this in the context of project - for example capturing video (plus text, photos, etc) from a conference.). Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. I rely on photos sent to me by the filmmakers and some journalists on the field. Set up a small experiment: It doesn't have to an exhaustive experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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