Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've written a lot lately about contests ( Chase Community Giving and Pepsi Refresh ) here in the United States that are focused on "social media for social media." While Ennovent , a social enterprise, is very different from a major consumer brand in the US, I think we can learn a lot about the design of the contest. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Internet is catering to the platform more so than any other hardware platform, so if your website is not responsive, and your content is not showing optimally on smart phone screens, you now know what your next project is. 23% of Twitter users make less than $30,000 per year.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The cast of characters from Duolingo’s Project World | Duolingo. The nine characters of Duolingo Project World all have unique personalities, and serve as guides to make a new language feel more familiar. So the company started a Fan Art Friday contest to encourage people to send in their art to be featured in Duolingo social posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

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. There are lots of examples of projects that use crowdsourcing, even this one!

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

To enter, artists have to upload their project to Sketchfab with the tag #RTJ4D. And even though it’s a Sketchfab-only contest, I have to include this incredible Instagram post from the legendary Beeple. The logo has always inspired reinterpretation by fans — but now, the group is looking to reward those fans directly.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The Gifted Learning Project: Whenever you plan a fundraising event, double check the calendar and dates in all your external communications. Energy Employees Claimant Assistance Project: If asking your community to generate content, make sure they know how to use the platform and tools. Internal Planning and Project Implementation.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

For me, the two most prominent reason to include crowdsourcing in your engagement strategies for campaigns or contests include: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. It isn’t right for every project or process and is often not right for every organization.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Contest Information. Project submissions: November 5 – February 28. Register the application project on the contest website. For the purposes of this contest, Microsoft Citizenship recommends the TechSoup Hacker Help Wiki. What Are the Prizes? Best Overall Windows 8 Phone App: $15,000. Important Dates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

That means we frequently run into cool projects (and mentally check the box: taken care of!). Zerofootprint supports the running of contests between schools (or whatever unit you want to pick). We have some new ideas for software Benetech could be developing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. The Pepsi Refresh Project launched on February 1st. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Here's my analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods." in cash for their organizations! ." in cash for their organizations! Check it out!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2009

contest in November, we asked everyone to take an online survey telling us some of the things they've done to reduce their IT energy use. We're happy to announce our three randomly-selected contest winners: read more. In our Unpower Yourself! We very much hope to continue to work closely with them.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

" Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right | Beth’s Blog – "The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. By integrating Google moderator, YouTube has brought real time engagement features into play and made it 100% more engaging."

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that 70 percen t of all new jobs across STEM fields during this decade – which includes everything from engineering to the social sciences – will be in computer science. Consider hosting an online contest that allows candidates to showcase their skills. Up the ante. Cater to diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Here's my contest. It refers to a fairly new way of evaluating the effectiveness of projects by drawing out the underlying assumptions about how they lead to social change. Write a theory of change for your project or organization's theory of change. Tags: contest. Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

You're looking at widget created by Lend4Health as part their participation in the Ideablob contest to win $10,000 for new small business ideas.   Then I looked at the other projects and noticed Nate Ritter  - whose used Twitter during the San Diego fires also had an idea.  

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

In partnering with the White House, National Lab Day, and videogame makers Sony and EA, the Digital media and Learning Competitions has prizes up to $200,000 and is open to all kinds of innovative projects (including games) that make use of digital media for education and social change. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

Sure, some people say the trip was a huge vanity project; a colossal p **g-contest between egotistical, morally blind billionaires whose pocket change could save countless human lives with just as much intrinsic value as their own, but to that I say: stop being such a bummer, dude!!

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 17, 2024

million for the church’s Advance Projects. In the past, the United Methodist Church created toolkits , graphics, and other assets for branches around the world to use in their individual campaigns. As a result, one year, they raised more than $6.5

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

Last spring, we successfully pitched our real time social TV analytics platform at the IC tomorrow ‘Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film’. One of IC tomorrow’s more recent ‘Digital Innovation Contests’ focuses on fashion and is set to complete with a panel of judges on 10 July. SecondSync Eurovision social tracking stats.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

N2Y4 Mobile Challenge: 15 Featured Projects Announced | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The 12 finalist charities for the fifth edition of the iA Financial Group philanthropic contest have been chosen! Each charity has the chance to win a major donation of $100,000 to support a project that promotes the health and wellness of children under 18. The public has until November 30 to go to donations-contest.ia.ca

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! I also work closely with our innovator community, those who have submitted Projects on our platform and participated in open innovation Challenges. An journey like this opens doors to new partnerships, relationships, and networks in a unique way.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The contest, announced Monday morning, will run for four years and is open to teams around the globe. Carbon removal technology is an expensive idea that’s still unproven at scale, with options ranging from funding reforestation projects to physically pulling the greenhouse gas out of the air. Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

Examples include text-to-give campaigns, merchandise fundraisers, and virtual contests. Another way to fundraise without the burden of organizing a venue is to create merchandise specific to the campaign or project for your fundraising. There are countless ways to implement contests into your fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year. Photo and Bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

Last month, TechSoup and Adobe announced the winners of the Show Your Impact Design Contest. This week, we are featuring the winner of the Social Change category in print and photo: Project Kindle's Book, I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle Share Their Stories of Living with HIV/AIDS.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The goal of the project is to not simply host a contest, but "to help nonprofits think creatively about using technology to fulfill their missions, without having a fear of technology and by learning a new skill with an element of fun," says Susan Tenby, Director, Online Community and Social Media Team, TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2009

That's where I ran into Emily Pilloton, a PopTech Fellow, and founder of Project H Design to mobilize product design ingenuity for social good. Earlier this week, I heard about a fundraising contest that PayPal was running called " Regift the Fruitcake, " where you could set up a fundraiser on behalf of a select few nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition. When he’s not managing a fundraising event you can find him at the gym or working on side projects at home in Palo Alto, CA. Offer a prize to the winner and ask everyone to pay a small entrance fee which will be donated to your charity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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