Tableau

JUNE 2, 2022

Bring the WOW Factor with Tableau Public Portfolios : Ghafar Shah and Chantilly Jaggernauth shared some amazing insights on how you can use Tableau Public to grow your skills, expand your network, and land that dream job. With that, enjoy Best of the Tableau Web with tips, tricks, inspiration and more produced by the Tableau community.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 27, 2014

Every dollar is tightly contested by other nonprofits whose missions are often equally as noble as your own. If it does not meet your standards after running this experiment several times, get your web design team on the job! Image courtesy of Fundraiser Help. Ask, and thank. Nothing reaffirms a donation like a genuine “thanks!”.

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Tech Fundraising Strategy Nonprofit 218

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Our videos enable us to educate the public while entertaining them. In the past year we have raised over $47,000 in an online Razoo contest and $25,000 as prize money in a Facebook contest sponsored by Chase. Have you been able to use these tools to raise money online?

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Social Media Interview Media Examples 275

Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2009

We have seen in recent years a growing prevalence of online contests. Here are three recent contest efforts that have impressed us. The final winner will soon be announced in a nail-biter end to the contest. The final winner will soon be announced in a nail-biter end to the contest.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

Their web-based professional-grade service for creating and sharing presentations online is available to eligible nonprofits and public libraries through TechSoup. Marnie Webb, one of TechSoup Global's CEOs was a judge for their contest, where winners are highlighted below. Presentation Contest! donation.

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Contest Nonprofit Cancer Music 66

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. Public voting process. Public’s favorites put to expert judges for final selection.

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Community Social Media Case Study Haiti 207

The Next Web

MAY 8, 2016

Just last month, Nathan Latka took a risk: A public, five million dollar, business-defining risk. Host of the number-one rated business podcast The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life, Nathan’s entrepreneurial journey began at the age of 19 when he founded Heyo, a Facebook contest and lead-generation app.

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Virginia Contest Podcast Hosting 107

Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2012

Using contests and challenges to engage communities was the topic of the July 17 edition of the weekly CommBuild chat. The chat, facilitated by by TechSoup online community manager, Michael DeLong, included helpful advice learned by participants who have run contests. Why hold a contest or challenge? Promote, promote, promote!

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Contest Challenge Community Active 55

Care2

JULY 23, 2010

In the good old Web 1.0 Some criticized corporations and said their cause marketing efforts were PR stunts designed to score brownie points with the public. In the Web 2.0 world, cause marketing contests such as Pepsi Refresh and Chase Community Giving have caused a different kind of ruckus. It's called digital litter.

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Contest Effective Digital Online 52

Tableau

MAY 13, 2022

Three worthy contestants take center stage in front of a global audience and have 20 minutes to deliver a compelling and awe-inspiring story using the same data set. Global qualifier contest. Each qualifier is centered around a different theme, and contestants are required to source their own data. The crowd during Iron Viz.

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Contest Storytelling Skills Global 98

Tableau

MAY 13, 2022

Three worthy contestants take center stage in front of a global audience and have 20 minutes to deliver a compelling and awe-inspiring story using the same data set. Global qualifier contest. Each qualifier is centered around a different theme, and contestants are required to source their own data. The crowd during Iron Viz.

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Contest Storytelling Skills Global 98

NTEN

JANUARY 31, 2014

The contest is presented by NTEN, YouTube , and See3 Communications , with generous sponsorship by Cisco and the National Alliance for Media and Culture and the National Youth Media Network. Innovations in web video are rapidly moving forward – so show off what you’ve done for your cause, and help other do-gooders see what they can do.

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Award Video Cisco Open 100

The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

The organisation’s lack of street cred is hardly a surprise given that it is in fact a “business-led executive non-departmental public body” (NDPB) sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). If you want to enter, you’ll need to be quick – the closing date for this particular contest is 12 June.

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Contest Mentoring Awareness Digital 120

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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Oregon Foundation Ideas Philanthropy 140

Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2013

It’s also a great time for nonprofits to host a contest or run a Halloween campaign focusing on one of your issues to enage your constituents before launching into the holiday season and the year-end fundraising. You can also host a themed pumpkin carving contest that is connected to one of the campaigns you are working on.

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Contest Action Social Network Nonprofit 71

Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2010

If you haven't heard the buzz, the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest is on. Contest winners will receive a $1,000 cash grant plus their choice of one of Adobe's CS5 Premium software packages. This could be your nonprofit organization or public library.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2009

Adobe and TechSoup are delighted to announce that we are now taking submissions for the Show Your Impact Design Contest ! Their campaign was to help improve the curb appeal of communities, move more homes from rentals to owner-occupied, and help improve the overall private and public investment in the communities in which they work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2009

Some of you may be familiar with the ongoing Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Contest from this year and the last. Well, now is your chance to tell us how Microsoft donations have helped your nonprofit or public library fulfill your mission and impact your communities. The key categories for submissions are: 1.

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Contest Story Impact Grant 43

Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The fundraiser—whether it’s an inspired event, online appeal or one-time contest—should of course be considered an important component of any non-profit’s campaigning effort. Create a timeline contest that encourages people to craft videos and photo sets boosting your fundraiser. Lean on your core supporters.

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Causes Share Support Social Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Back in the early 1990's, during my "gopher mistress" days, I could use this Internet protocol to create lists of lists of public files on servers on the Internet. It made it easy for me to navigate through public files available on the Internet in a linear way. Your lists can be public. Curation of Dynamic Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Meet the Fight Hunger Web Team From left: Anna Yl??-Kauttu, I'm the moderator for the Flickr for Nonprofits Online Affinity Group over at NTEN and during a recent exchange about nonprofits using online photo and (video) contests to call attention to the causes, Cordellia and Susanne caught my attention. Kauttu, Susanne Th??rnqvist,

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Hunger Web Team Interview 50

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media. I immediately opened it and started reading.

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Public Metrics Social Media ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve done this through social media, winning some of the early online fundraising contests. I also donated my share of the royalties from my first book, The Networked Nonprofit , to support the Sharing Foundation’s college education fund. October is book launch month with events taking place in across the country.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

They are inviting the public to make a spot and then the winner will get a national airing of their spot as well as $20,000 in video equipment. We’re launching an ad contest: “Obama in 30 Seconds.&# Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Contest Artist Video FAQ 40

See3

MAY 28, 2007

One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. A common form of contest among companies is the “create a commercial&# contest. Among organizations, contests may seem like a short-cut to get compelling content, and cheaply. The current Heinz contest is a great example.

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Contest Content Generation YouTube 40

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. In addition, I created Web banners for those bloggers to use. One donor was a friend of a friend. All are captured here ).

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Twitter Nashville Blogger Contest 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. The design might include a sequence of: - Open call for submissions, public vote/commenting and a group expertise select the finalists.

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Measure Impact Fund Social Media 96

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Staff felt that often the only way to try new tools, engage with the public who were already adopting and investing in online platforms, and stay on top of the fast-moving digital space was to go around rules or organizational policies. Community-sourcing is when you launch a contest or campaign to your community. Holistic Tools.

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Nptech Slides Community Strategy 213

NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions.

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Video Contest Nonprofit YouTube 56

Forum One

JULY 5, 2007

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

Social Media 52

Social Media Influence Internet Web 52

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. Because data is powerful!

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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. We have long known that our members were passionate about photography, and one of their strongest ties to the organization was through the photography that we use on our web site and in our publications. Keep them engaged.

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Flickr Conservancy Group Interview 56

Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

Social Media 52

Social Media Influence Internet Web 52

Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

Social Media 52

Social Media Influence Internet Web 52

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel featured Jonah Sachs, the creative director of Free Range Studios , which is a film studio that makes web videos for social and environmental change groups. Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Shapins said the company plans to open it up to the public soon.

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Storytelling Digital Conference Lesson 62

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. As we march into 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events?

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Social Media Trend Media Fundraising 109