Digital Trends

OCTOBER 29, 2020

An autonomous racing car got off to a terrible start in a recent contest when it veered off the track from a standing start and drove straight into a wall.

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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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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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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2013

Some call social media shares vanity metrics because they have turned into such a popularity contest. What video’s get the most views? What white papers are downloaded the most? Are people sharing your content? However, it’s still worth looking at these metrics to see how people are sharing your content.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

To ensure that our content stayed balanced, I made sure that our metrics tracking documents separated % of posts with a link from those without a link and set goals for the weekly post balance. Well, that’s my dog and he’s pretty cute, but Beth and Katie are also running a dog vs cat photo contest. Get your copy!

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Once imported, fundraisers can keep track of which contacts who have donated, not opened the email , forwarded the email, etc. Encourage them to start a team of fundraisers. After the initial excitement wears off, your fundraisers may need motivation. insert link}.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In other cases, you might want to have a contest, where anyone who renews before the due date is entered to win a prize. Features include client management, online payment processing, email tracking and marketing, ticketing, accounting, SMS, point-of-sale, and much more – with a flexible, affordable pricing structure.

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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. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Time will tell, but the contest has given us a jump start on our social media strategy.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

SecondSync Eurovision social tracking stats. 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.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2012

For example, when the Center for Reproductive Rights was supporting the case against Texas's mandatory ultrasound law (which was a big news story), they launched a New Yorker Style Cartoon Caption Contest and asked people to submit a caption for the cartoon they designed about the outrageous law.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Dupe: Our organization has literally just started tracking ROI for using these tools by way of campaigns. All the while, you’ve got to measure, track and re-adjust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Chris Penn one of the founders just let us know that they're running a contest. If you follow that link above, it is a customizable URL that lets event planners track which affiliates bring in the most clicks and "ticket sales" - well it's free, so sign ups.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Develop a mobile app to get people interacting with your organization and encourage, track and inspire volunteering. SmartOnline just wrapped up an Invent Your Mobile App contest. For example, a bike-a-thon in Texas has a Ride for Life app so that people can keep track of pledges and fundraising, see where others are, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Get creative in building your sponsorship packages—consider things beyond traditional presenting, banquet, and hole sponsorships and solicit sponsors for event technology, on-course contests, golf carts, beverage cart, player gifts, and more. 6) Live-Score the Tournament.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. We opened with a question about what we thought were the most innovative approaches in contests.

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CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

CauseVox allows you to easily set up your event page, offers built-in peer-to-peer fundraising features, and includes a CRM to track participants and donors, helping you maintain relationships long after the last putt. Plus, on the back-end you can track ticket inventory and view curated reports.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Doing either will likely get your domain blacklisted as a spammer and by not using an email marketing service , you won’t be able to track the success of your email campaigns. Email marketing services track opens by adding a tiny pixel image to your email campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

After taking one look at the syllabus, course faculty instructor Jennifer Aaker and invited guests , I couldn't resist designing a learning experience that integrated a social media birthday fundraising experiment aimed at helping support the work of the Sharing Foundation with "listen, learn, and adapt" and real-time tracking and reflection.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When you plan an online peer-to-peer fundraising campaign using CauseVox, we provide you with a user-friendly interface to both manage your campaign progress and keep track of your personal fundraisers. If you’re using CauseVox to power your fundraiser, use our impact meter to track progress. Plus, it’s as easy as pie to get started!

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“The mix of design with storytelling is well balanced; the story [they’re] telling is very clear and so we have charts that are easy to read … Any decisions to go off the beaten track feel like they've been made with intent,” - An excerpt from my judge’s feedback on one of the winning #Viz4ClimateAction entries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Track and report success in a Social Media ROI spreadsheet. Also covered: News Articles and Press Releases, Blogs, Images and Infographics, Videos, Online Petitions, Online Contests, Online Stores, Ebooks and Digital Reports, Event Invitations, Webinars, and Smartphone and Tablet Apps. Budget (Cost of implementing action items).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

“Working as a professional fundraiser, I knew that I was giving and my friends were giving but our common donor tracking systems weren’t capturing how the diversity of our interests and frequent smaller donations added up to a sizeable amount over the course of a year. The time to stand aside and let the comments roll in is near!

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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. Be sure to check into the latest exercising apps which make it easy to track your routes and number of calories burned. 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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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Ghost story contest. If you’re lacking a good collection of horror stories to tell, send a call out to your imaginative supporters to send in their scariest stories for a ghost story contest fundraiser. Halloween decorating contest. Homeowners can submit photos of their homes to be entered into the contest.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These are often hotly contested between drivers, and there have even been reports of some using bots to access in-demand shifts. The debit card’s account is provided by Green Dot, and comes with an app to track and manage transactions. Drivers can keep track of the amount of points they accrue via the Amazon Flex App.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“The mix of design with storytelling is well balanced; the story [they’re] telling is very clear and so we have charts that are easy to read … Any decisions to go off the beaten track feel like they've been made with intent.” . — Beyond that, contests provide interesting challenges in how to provide feedback.

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The Verge

MAY 1, 2021

Barnes also testified that Apple has been tracking its App Store profits for several years. Apple has hotly contested that interpretation of the data.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

In one extreme case, some citizens who downloaded the BeAware Bahrain contact tracing app became contestants on a televised game show called Are You At Home? In a statement given to the BBC , the Bahraini government touted its app’s effectiveness in tracking the spread of COVID-19 and says it is opt in.

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The Verge

APRIL 27, 2021

But the new update also adds a much more important and controversial new feature: App Tracking Transparency. How did ad tracking work on iOS before? developers could use a host of tools to track user data from within an app. What does App Tracking Transparency change? The change has been a contentious one. Before iOS 14.5,

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You can easily track your favorite Twitter friends by creating tiles for them on the Windows 8 Start screen. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest. To celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced a new contest to encourage developers to create apps that positively impact the world around them.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She made it fun with decorations and a staff photo contest. They then tracked the level of donations from those groups, how many of them were still giving to the organization in the future, and what the level of their gifts were. Staff got into the spirit with personalized doodles and videos.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. and pop.url for tracking retweets (Check out Laura Lee Dooley’s URL shortener report!). new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. test and teweak.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the Esports One team, creating this platform required building out a set of data and analytics products, as well as using computer vision technology that can track game activity (and update player stats) without relying on a publisher’s API. The startup says its user base has been growing by more than 25% month-over-month.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2010

You track metrics while you're on the treadmill (without falling off). Flickr photo: kcolwell We know that you, my fellow NTEN community members, are rock stars. You can write fundraising email copy in your sleep and hand code your e-appeal while making breakfast and watering your plants. You are fundraising email campaign ninjas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As NTEN points out , the campaign include integrated tactics: They have a custom landing tab on Facebook for the campaign, tied to a contest: they’re asking their fans to share their pets’ stories and photos. Facebook alone doesn’t do get an engaged crowd that takes action.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

With event management software like Accelevents , gamification through badges, attendance tracking, and session tracking becomes easier! We highly recommend digital scavenger hunts and photo contests to up the ante in the online format! Consider photo contests from both in-person and online attendees.

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