Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

While I curate a lot of information online , I also still appreciate the printed word – either on paper or as an e-book. It is always good to have a place to start to read up on a topic before searching online. John’s book takes you through the technical and practical aspects of marketing on Facebook, particularly brand pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here. Okay, with all these contests perhaps you're worried about Cause Fatigue. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. Projects working in the U.S.

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MAY 4, 2009

Google Analytics: Google Analytics , a free and powerful website stats software, lets you dig into your website data so you can find out all sorts of useful info such as who your audience is and what keywords they are searching for to find your website. But again, you need to be at or near the top of Google when folks are searching for you.

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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. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful! Free your data, and your mind will follow.

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JULY 28, 2021

They would likely be happy to donate a gift of some sort or furnish additional funds to you for the right to put their name on the contest. We’ve all seen the contests: “share this post, like this page, and tag a friend for your chance to win [insert prize].”. You can do a contest like the one above or do something different.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Here are a few ideas: • A video book trailer, or video book review contest. Flickr photo contest. The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. Tags: askbritt. book online promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I searched flickr and found the above photo taken by video blogger Steve Garfield. Just over the weekend, he won a contest on Twitter and donated his prize money to the Sharing Foundation. Tags: fundraising2.0 Photo by Steve Garfield. When I heard about this story, I was curious about Drew's tatoos. Thank you Steve!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process.

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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.). There are many good, standard articles on "how to write an RFP" (found through a quick review of Google search results ).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

For example, participants can watch videos, get ringtones for their phones, submit a design to a t-shirt contest, take a quiz about reproductive rights and find information on an interactive map , among other things. Tags: social media see3 new media conference social networking Nonprofits Video nptech.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

The main point of the project is to convey to Americans that “what happens here, matters there&# or as the tag line of campaign says “Our Choices, Others’ Lives.&# Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Write titles with phrases that people are searching for (i.e. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Run a contest. Tags: askbritt. Blogs are a visual medium. Add your blog URL to your email signature. Tell Google you have a blog. Tell Technorati you have a blog. How to Bake a Cake). Write about current events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

If you are starting, you need to begin by manually across multiple networks and then automate the search using a listening/analytics tool. Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community. Tags: metrics ROI.

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Depending on which… Read the flooded place from See What’s Out There Tags: Video, YouTube via Blogdigger book wager for shape singles. [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? 23 Feb 2008 daniel seems you forgot the link to the YouTube Uploader.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They even show up in Google searches! Hold contests. Sometimes, it's easier to find the app you want by doing a Google search for the service name and "Facebook Pages." Tags: Influence Social Media. Pages are also publicly accessible to everyone -- even visitors who aren't logged into Facebook. Grow Your Fans.

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MARCH 17, 2008

18 Mar 2008 Recent URLs tagged Davidpogue – Urlrecorder [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment jackie Does this mean office iPhones will be required in the next year?? Vardenafil is presented in different dosage tablets.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Search for your institution on Yelp and TripAdvisor. Go to Technorati or Google Blog Search and put the name of your museum (or exhibit, or program, or.) in quotation marks and hit search. Search for people or institutions of interest to follow, and the followers will come. Check yourself out in the blogosphere.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them. This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. YouTube is for uploads, while Google Video is for searching videos.

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JULY 14, 2008

Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them. This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. YouTube is for uploads, while Google Video is for searching videos.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ideas are endless: bowling nights, trivia contests, cocktail hours, weekend barbeques, and more! Social media shoutouts Another way to show your appreciation for your volunteers is by tagging specific volunteers on social media. Volunteers’ night out Create a special event to show your volunteers how important they are!

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

60) Search « See3 Releases Their Guide to Online Video.as Paste this code immediately before the tag. Its easy to use andthe support staff is very helpful and responsive. Before we get too preachy about Google Analytics, there are some limitations to the tool - after all, its free. No Big Brother worries here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Run a quick search , and you'll find references to the project in over 1,400 blog posts, mostly from individuals around the world who love art, or beaches, and who share their discovery and delight in the project with their small networks of friends. The project has not had any heavy marketing campaigns or contests associated with it.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

For those new to Change the Web , it's a contest launching on Feb 16th to encourage a new wave of web applications that help you find, share, and take actions on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we visit online everyday. tags: change green ).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. The directory should provide intuitive navigation and enable users to discover sites based upon both text-based and faceted search. Vote for This Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We set up tracking with hashtags and keyword searches. We have some great ideas for how to use the money, including the forthcoming Code for Canada contest and an initiative to get computer science students to develop transparency applications. Tags: socialmediametrics. We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. This is the group who come as newcomers a few times, and then start searching for more. Tags: exhibition Core Museum 2.0 Next, the returners.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The contest should offer an incentive for your constituents to become fans. Then we switched topics to Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). Updates made by phones to twitter, are searched more easily than before -. Searched using Twitter Search with no URL to look for -. Hashtags: [link] "search #nwf" 3. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. set audience.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

The FEC also discounted several accidental views resulting from searches for “Hilary Duff,&# “Dennis the Menace,&# and “Daily Show Republican Debate.&# Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Original post by Michael Hoffman [.]

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