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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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5 Reasons Tech is a Must-Have for Marketing Your Nonprofit’s Golf Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You’ll want to be sure to keep the site up-to-date with any new details or information like the event itinerary, any add-ons or contests , food and beverage, raffle prizes or auction items, and player gifts. Leverage both organic and paid social media channels to help spread the word about the tournament. Email campaigns.

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Why old-school SMS is still a powerful mobile marketing tool

The Next Web

Dig deeper and that seemingly one-dimensional SMS becomes a truly interactive medium of push and pull to deliver information, tips, coupons, alerts and rewards, or engross consumers with karaoke, contests, surveys, and trivia. Indeed, SMS engagement offers an endless list of consumer touch points that clearly states what the user needs to do.

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Does your nonprofit, like this meat, need some help?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. It's interesting that they are targeting bloggers as part of their publicity strategy.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And they challenged me and my colleagues to prove the value of our web strategy through constant testing and the presentation of hard-core data. Tell me about some of the strategies you've used to integrate social media into your communications campaigns -- and tell me how you measure success? Our Flickr photo contest.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 It followed up on that success by creating the Petition Site the following year.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.