Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

launched a contest on Facebook. At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In December, Pepsi topped that amount with its Pepsi Refresh, a contest offering $20 million in prizes and also launching this week.) . For example.

Contest

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2011

Contests to encourage content sharing. About the CommBuild Chat: These monthly chats originated out of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. Using content to fuel community engagement.

Community

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests in order to build your email list and collect user generated content. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. iStock :: istock.com. ViralSweep :: viralsweep.com.

Mobile

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

Move offline activities online. Adding incentives like sweepstakes and contests help to engage zero dollar fundraisers, and create more fun and competition for everyone. There are so many traditional fundraising activities that are easy to bring online in order to get more engagement, reach, and clarity about your campaign. Promotions.

Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Here are three ways the foundations we work with has reached out ahead of their big days this week: Make-a-Meme Contest : The Centre Foundation in State College, Pa., launched a meme contest, encouraging their nonprofit partners to create one to promote their Giving Day campaign. Most, like this one , were full of humor.

Local

NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Online, offline, in social media, at the event, after the event and everywhere else – tell your heartfelt stories and explain how donations would/could be used. It’s possible your non-fundraisers or low-dollar fundraisers have lost sight of this somewhere along-the-way. Make sure your event is all about your cause.

Money

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. Here is a copy of the application narrative; you can read it and vote for me on the competition site here.

India

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Approach area businesses to donate items to an online or offline silent or live auction. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community. Find an expert on anything and turn that expertise into paid online or offline classes. Approach companies to help donate the above items or services. Canvas door-to-door.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests in order to build your email list and collect user generated content. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. ViralSweep :: viralsweep.com. WiseStamp :: wisestamp.com.

Mobile

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.

Washington

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I've had time offline, with family, and just relaxing. The Case Foundation has just launched the " Change Begins With Me " contest. This past week has been about the lightest blogging week ever. It's also that time of year when you think about setting personal goals or making resolutions for change. Need some motivation?

Contest

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

ViralSweep is an sweepstakes and contest platforms that easily allows you to launch and management online contests. MeetUp is service that focuses on helping people meet up offline and in-person. For multi-lingual surveys, it is a better service than SurveyMonkey. ViralSweep :: viralsweep.com. Event Management.

Resource

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report “ How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ,” sponsored by the Case Foundation and released today, Geoff Livingston analyzes the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington and the repercussions for other regions and nonprofit communities.

Community

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

To counter the drop in demand for offline events, we agreed to extend the contracts by six more months at no cost,” Jain said. Those were also the first to stop hosting in-person events. In February, “we knew that most, if not all, physical events were getting postponed or cancelled globally.

Virtual

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of my favorite moments was when Robert Egger, the founder of DC Central Kitchen and V3, came to visit us a while back and his advice to me was to “keep it local and make sure it translates offline.” I have my notes from that meeting on the bulletin board above my desk. There are very few things that are as empowering as the internet.

Colorado

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From

Web

Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Participated in our online contests such as photo competitions, etc. You can’t divorce offline influence from online influence. Looked to us as an authority on climate change across social media. Shared our advocacy actions with their friends and colleagues on social networks. It’s subjective.

Influence

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

This 6-page guide laid out specific steps for using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as advice for connecting offline events and media opportunities offered during Give to the Max Day. Youthprise, a youth-serving nonprofit and grantmaking organization put up $14,000 in prize grants for the contest.

Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? NWF - every program we have has an offline component, i try to integrate a social media strategy that leverages and encourages the offline part; like #nwf wildlife watch, raises your awareness offline if you can see something and tweet it, etc.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Looking to tap into this, we launched a photo contest where the prize would be featuring the winning images along side the photography that they have told us they like so much. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? Keep them engaged.

Flickr

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The magical kingdom in which offline and online worked together, where strategies that were proven in one place were re-imagined in new ones. In the social paradigm, we recognize the need for both online and offline to be part of our work. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community.

Nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them.

Charity

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Data from a recent Facebook contest we ran not show that we not only significantly increased our followers in a short amount of time, but we saw individuals then head over to our website to be engaged further. We tweak and readjust along the way. You’ve got to know and understand the tools, how to use them and what to leave behind.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The concept of empowering individuals to fundraise for a charity by asking their friends to donate has been around for years offline. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million.

National

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. All are captured here ). It’s a $235 they wouldn’t have had without this little experiment.

Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

Measure

Candid

JULY 16, 2024

Explore a diverse mix of online and offline channels to reach potential donors. Don’t be afraid to throttle spending in underperforming states, particularly those heavily contested in the election. Our research revealed that many donors are only hearing from nonprofits in a single channel (e.g.,

Fundraising

Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

Even these digital-savvy individuals need a screen break from time to time, and direct mail can provide the perfect opportunity for offline connections. . Online contests or challenges. Incorporate a few contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers.

Communication

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!) (The Pictured above is Mam Sary, our head English teacher, who is also a computer geek. The video blogging community also donated some video cameras for the school too.).

Conversation

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

You can present them with light-weight opportunities to show their support online by voting in a contest, participating in online and offline events, and taking part in volunteer and do-it-yourself actions.

Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

So they have contests. Ninety-two percent of word of mouth happens offline. So make sure the online supports the offline and vise versa. Is it so the CMO can point to it and say, ???Look! re part of Web 2.0, And then there???s s the numbers game. These companies want 10,000 people in the first week. Gimmicks out the wazoo.

Wiki

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Crowdsource content and give your members a reason to show off to one another by creating contests. How can an online community be moved offline? You can take the opposite tack and make offline events exclusive to increase interest and turnout. Provide content: Seed conversations to get others more comfortable speaking.

Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They run contests, but they are sure to follow Facebook Guidelines. ( Whether it is texting or promoting offline , they experiment with many ways to increase their fan base. Engagement conversations revolve around getting people to look and discuss the art or may encourage them to participate in a gallery activity inside the museum.

Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

[Resources “>here ] My training craft and what I have been teaching in train the trainer’s sessions around the world – how you blend content with engagement, both online and offline. I was challenged when I walked into the room and saw a podium, two large screens, and microphones set up in the middle of a sea of tables.

Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Using social media is an enhancement to your offline professional networking and relationship building. Getting Started: You Don't Have To Be Joey Chestnut The photo above is Joey Chestnut who won the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in 2008. It's a shift from a getting things done sort of productivity to social productivity.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

Beth has given alot to the Riders community over the years - online and offline mentoring, organizing the Day of Service, blogging about all our great work to help nonprofits make the most of technology. This is exactly the kind of example we want to give to our clients. Thank you for your support!

Nptech