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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

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The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. We only allowed 1 vote per e-mail address.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

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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. Public voting process. This is something that the 350.org

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Social Media ROI Case Study Slam Panel at 08NTC: Carie Lewis, Human Society

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I run the org???s ABOUT THE ORG The HSUS is the nation???s Knock Out Animal Fighting YouTube Contest??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? High engagement contest ??? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. s choice award.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards

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Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The theme of this year’s contest is From the Ground Up: Using Technology to Engage Constituents and Make the World a Better Place. The finalists will be shown on www.DoGooder.tv

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It

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Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » America’s Giving Challenge – Beth Wins Again

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But I wonder about all the orgs who went down this road because of the publicity but were so less equipped than you to be successful. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

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Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies? Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 tools in their web sites.

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