NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

It was amazing to see so many NTEN members at the NTC last week! video contest and earn the chance to win money for your cause! This week, it’s even nicer to highlight some of the ways they're using technology, doing good, and educating the community. Did your nonprofit make an astounding video this year? Submit it to the 2012 Lights.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Learn more about the contest guidelines and how to submit your video! And… wait for it: the winning videos will be announced at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN and featured on YouTube’s homepage in March. The YouTube part is sort of like having your nonprofit video seen during the Super Bowl.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

John didn't know he was making a promo for one of my NTC sessions! The NTC Conference is a little more than two months away and I'm really looking forward to conversations with colleagues and meeting others face-to-face for the first time. I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture. Where do I find more information?

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NTEN

APRIL 17, 2009

They're going to be at the NTC , so can meet them at the Science Fair ! In contest news, NTEN member organization ZeroDivide has launched a great contest that combines poetry, social media, and good causes: the ZD Technology Haiku Contest ! ") The winners will be announced at the NTC.

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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

MARCH 10, 2011

Visit the contest website here. See3 and YouTube will announce the winners live at the NTC and on the YouTube homepage on March 19th. For full contest details, visit: [link]. Along with the other partners, See3 Communications and YouTube hope you can vote now and vote often to help select the winners! Why Vote What?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Visit the contest site today and cast your vote! This year’s winners will be announced March 14th, 2014 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington D.C. We received a wide array of funny, moving and informative videos that embraced strong storytelling to communicate important messages. Individuals can vote once per day.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

We've run a video contest with See3 Communications for three years running now, and every year, we've more than doubled the number of entries. This is topic Michael Hoffman will tackle at his NTC session , " You Made a Video: Now What ?" At some point, somebody at your org will probably say, "I know what we'll do!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

Instead of running throughout the entire conference – and competing with everything else on the agenda – the Science Fair takes place only on the first day of the NTC; it's the sole focus of the conference at that time. In celebration of our 40th birthday on April 1, 2012, CDS Global is bringing the party to NTC 2012! CDS Global.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2013

The contest is presented by YouTube , See3 Communications , and NTEN with generous sponsorship by Cisco. But the awards are much more than a contest. Winners will also receive free registration for next year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). The DoGooder Video Awards are taking submissions starting March 4, 2013.

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See3

MARCH 16, 2008

If you are going to the NTC in New Orleans, let me know, would love to see you. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Sprout is a tool that lets you easily build your own widget. What I love about this widget is that it includes a link to video — using the See3 logo as the key.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

Contests to encourage content sharing. Some of the topics from the chat include: Engaging specific ethnic groups/communities. Using content to fuel community engagement. Engagement for advocacy vs non-advocacy organizations. Hyper-local communities. Social media in CRMs. You can read through the full archive here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! ABOUT THE #FIXMYPITCH CONTEST. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. The results of the Extreme Makeover will be revealed in a follow up post on this blog. Are your creepy pitches spooking your supporters? Guest post by Erica Mills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. The Online NTC takes place September 16-17th - get a special 25% discount here. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The photo above a recent NTC. A donation to the NTC scholarship fund will help professionals make it to the 2019 Nonprofit Technology in Portland. There is also a Giving Story Contest for donors to share why they give and win a cash prize for the organization of their choice. Can you spot me? Is your board participating?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Flicker photo: mastermaq Every year at the NTC , we partner with See3 to bring you the DoGooder Nonprofit Video awards. Everything you need to know about the contest: This year's contest is a bit different than before, but the concept is still the same: we're celebrating and recognizing the best in nonprofit video!

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See3

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Danny is a producer, director and editor whose films have aired on PBS, HBO and A&E and have been nominated for an Academy Award and national Emmy Awards. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here's a preview: If you work up an appetite during Laura's session, she reminded me that there were a couple of contestants from the ATL on the last season of Top Chef. We can go visit their restaurants and talk shop: Woodfire Grill. Eno by Zara.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Can you edit the videos your supporters created for your video contest into something entirely new? When someone posts a positive comment on your blog, can you use it in your fundraising materials? How much of the New York Times technology blog can you quote on your own site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We I had coffee with Gene Austin at NTC and he told me that the study is available for free but you have to register first to get your copy. The Wired Wealthy.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Although I hate the idea of talking over lunch, I'm glad that two years ago, under former ED Katrin Verclas, we added the awards ceremony to our closing lunch at the NTC. It's a great way to spend our last bit of time together while highlighting some of the individuals and organizations shaping our sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The photo above is from last year’s NTC. A donation to the NTC scholarship fund will help professionals make it to the 2018 Nonprofit Technology in New Orleans. There is also a Giving Story Contest for donors to share why they give and win a cash prize for the organization of their choice. Can you spot me?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

In case you hadn't heard , Convio is sponsoring 50 NTEN memberships to nonprofits nominated in their NPHero contest. We thank GCN for partnering with us to pull off the best NTC yet -- coming to Atalnta, April 8-10! Jordan Viator explains. the idea behind the drive and how you can participate. There's still time, but it's running out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

The framework also works well as a benchmarking tool so a group of similar organizations working together as a movement can learn from one another. This makes easier to embrace a key principle of movement building “sharing and documenting practices” that Rachel Weidinger shared during her session at NTC last week.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2012

They are exhibiting at this year’s NTC Science Fair! The Knight News Challenge , an international media innovation contest , is accepting submissions to their contest between Feb 27th and March 17th. Kell Partners hired some veteran nonprofit technologists (and NTEN members) Tompkins Spann, Julie Macalik, and Julie Loyd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). After thinking about this for a while, I boiled it down to two metaphors. A) The Hollywood Movie B) Home movies to document something important.

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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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See3

DECEMBER 19, 2007

So, register for the NTC today and meet us March 19-21 in New Orleans! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? This is the conference were more than one thousand nonprofit professionals gather to share and learn about how technology can advance the mission of nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

Submit your success stories for our next Show Your Impact contest. Kevin points out that presentations from NTC are now available online. It's been a busy week in the TechSoup universe. From TechSoup Stock : Don't miss next week's special two-day offer from GrantStation. Anna praises Skype's capacity as a telecommuting tool.

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MARCH 21, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in prizes. Our partner See3 will announces the winners of the 2016 GoDooder Video Awards at the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). Our campaign focus will include these key dates and will begin at NTC 2016: DoGooder campaign partners announce winners at NTC 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. And, if you are so inclined, you can vote a thumbs up as I entered it into the contest. If you didn't write down the wiki, it's here and if you didn't get a hard copy of the Idealware article, it's here. I hope to see more nonprofit technology presentations in there.

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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. . - GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) and externally (with all of your fine readers!). So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2007

I got asked this question several times during various presentations/panels at I was on at the NTC, including the Flickr Affnity Group session on Wednesday. Flickr Remix Photo Birthday Card Contest. The question, "How can I display photos in flickr on my web site?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. Internet platforms make it is easy for crowds to vote, rate, and provide feedback. Think Yelp , eBay , or Amazon.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. The $10,000 prize winner will be announced at the NTC ! The winner will be announced at the NTC !

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