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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Federighi, who oversees Apple’s iOS and macOS software divisions, was specifically protesting the European Commission’s proposed Digital Markets Act , which, if passed, would require Apple to let users install apps outside of the iOS App Store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. So, what’s different about this contest than other online contests?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. 12/17: The Dark Side of Online Contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Here's my contest. The way you do it is to start with the intervention - in this case - social media - and trace it backwards to your proposed social outcome, behavior change, or action as a result of communication. Tags: contest. They asked me to participate along with several colleagues. Fine Blog . My Dirty Life & Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But the GivingTuesday spirit still continues until the end of the month with #MyGivingStory , a contest where your nonprofit organization could receive a grant up to $10,000. MyGivingStory, in its second year, is a nationwide campaign and social media storytelling contest to inspire public discussion about the reasons people give.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

To celebrate their beta launch, they are offering a $10,000 Change Your World Contest Prize to the social change group or organization (this includes non-profits, student groups, volunteer networks, fundraising groups, or other networks organized around social issues) that starts a group on Razoo, and recruits at least 100 members by September 15th.

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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 Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Workhorse filed the protest in the US Court of Federal Claims in mid-June, nearly four months after the USPS announced that it had awarded the contract to build the next-generation mail truck to defense contractor Oshkosh, ending a contest that started in 2015. “We Oral arguments on the USPS’s motion to dismiss were scheduled for Wednesday.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

indicated that a method proposed by the plaintiffs’ expert had not shown how class members would be determined. In paying the fine, Blackbaud officials neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s findings, but agreed not to contest them. District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division. Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community. For example, could people who donate every year be cultivated for a larger or monthly gift? Is the donor renewal rate low? Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew? Canvas door-to-door.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Digital tax proposals have become increasingly common as tech giants have grown more profitable and less popular — but the taxes remained hotly contested by the tech industry. The tax is set to go into effect 30 days after passage unless the lawsuit’s injunction is successful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. After all ideas are in, MMT will use them to craft a Request for Proposals, inviting applications to make a case for funding from the $1 million.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Inspire ” video contest. Raise your glass for the RFP drinking game if you’re frustrated by proposal guidelines. Speaking of remakes, we at NTEN HQ have been recently enthralled with Puddles the Clown’s video remake of Lorde’s “Royals.” Enthrall others with your own video via PM & Co.’s Shoot an awesome video, get a brand makeover.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. There's the guy who proposes to his girlfriend.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

(It is important to remember that there are ways to meet the objectives of an RFP without actually doing an RFP -- such as through contests, conducting small, sole-source trial projects or periodically using incumbents.). Most propose an outline which includes the following: * Summary / Key Information. WHAT MAKES A GOOD RFP?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. More from Stephanie McAuliffe's blog and SocialBrite.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2008

As part of the workshop, there was a contest to giveaway a video camera. Organizations were asked to submit a brief proposal on how they would use the camera to enhance their work in New Orleans. The final event of the day was a video blogging workshop for local nonprofits given by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. 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.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Start Your Grant Proposal with a Story. So, why would we not want to use this powerful communication tool when writing grant proposals? When I began writing proposals, storytelling was the only way I knew to convey the problems my organization faced and what we were doing to overcome those problems. Some Winning Stories.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The whole contest infrastructure is online - submission, discussion, refining, and sharing. Ashoka's Changemakers Project is similar in some ways - running collaborative online contests to identify and reward social entrepreneurs. AMEX gave away $2.5m modify to better meet a need or to compliment another effort.).

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 16, 2024

Blackbaud released a statement acknowledging what was termed “an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., Blackbaud also announced a $500 million stock buyback this past January and its CEO, Michael Gianoni, was arrested in February for suspicion of driving under the influence, which he is contesting in court.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

I tried ChatGPT and can tell you it writes wonderful haikus, crafted a pretty decent Valentine’s Day message for my sweetheart, and correctly predicted many of the matchups in my colleagues’ Holiday Movie bracket contest. This could help grantmakers identify the most promising proposals and allocate funding more effectively.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In that email, a Pfizer employee proposed using Theranos’ Walgreens centers as clinical trial sites. The thing about today’s presentation, though, is that Theranos’ early work isn’t contested. As for Pfizer, the defense produced emails that showed Holmes had continued talking to the company about a partnership as late as 2015.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

video contest and earn the chance to win money for your cause! If your idea is selected as a finalist, you’ll be invited to submit a grant proposal for up to $100,000 to get your project off the ground. Did your nonprofit make an astounding video this year? Submit it to the 2012 Lights. Click here to learn more - via video of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. I "met" Mark Grimes ( Ned.com ) virtually on Omidyar Network and he was part of a group that proposed community support for the Sharing Foundation.

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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. The runner up winner was Maureen Dowd from Open Museum What I propose to do with the library you are offering is read it, try it, share it, and let you know how it works for me, my colleagues and the people we influence.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2009 and 2010, I participated the UCSD/FICO data mining contests. Also, on the information page of the contest, it states that “In Australia, success rates have fallen to 20–25 per cent…”. I’m also a part-time software developer for 11ants analytics. My PhD research focuses on meta-learning and the full model selection problem.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

He’s proposed systems to automatically detect various types of bugs in open source, using the Linux kernel as a test case. Kroah-Hartman, of the Linux Foundation, contests this — he told The Verge that one patch from the study did make it into repositories, though he notes it didn’t end up causing any harm. “In Dolan made four demands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. The proposed call agenda is here. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Our list of proposed panels is below. We will also name the winner of the webinar series storytelling contest. This year, we have nominated a number of great new sessions. But they won't get selected unless people score them highly. Voting ends this Friday, October 16, so time is short. Voting is easy and doesn't require registration.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2011

In April, they took advantage of national press about an Egyptian Cobra that went missing at their reptile house (and was later recovered) by holding a naming contest for her. Unfortunately, almost every year WCS has to defend themselves against proposed budget cuts in NYC and Albany, so they are at it again right now.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 22, 2006

Today I'm thinking about RFPs - Requests for Proposal. Give your potential vendors time to think about you and your mission and you'll get proposals that seem much more on the mark. A focus on requirements that you suspect might not be available from all the contestants. I'm certainly not going to complain about that.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Influencers’ time is valuable, so you need to make your proposal worthwhile. Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. Ensure the influencer knows ahead of time what’s expected of them and how you’ll use their likeness. Offer value to the influencer.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Influencers’ time is valuable, so you need to make your proposal worthwhile. Submission contest. Take both of these ideas to the next level by gamifying them with a contest. Ensure the influencer knows ahead of time what’s expected of them and how you’ll use their likeness. Offer value to the influencer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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