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What Have We Learned About Creating Engaging Meetings from Virtual Conferences?

The MatrixFiles

Worked with their speakers to add interactive elements, from polls to contests. Polls and contests to add sparkle to a session or break. .” But with virtual, more thought has gone into the quality of the sessions to make sure people stay engaged and don’t log off. Coached speakers to become better presenters.

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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

AccelEvents

Just like games, contests are virtual event ideas that can get people talking. Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Maybe the cutest pet contest or something event/topic-focused that does not require attendees to be on site. . Polls and Q&As.

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How to Drive Virtual Event Engagement with Gamification

AccelEvents

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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How to Become an Expert in Social Media Branding

NonProfit Hub

Organic posting, running contests, and incorporating social media marketing in emails are all great ways to get started on your branding journey. Run interesting Twitter polls. Run a contest! Contests are a great way for nonprofits to quickly extend visibility and get their audience involved and engaged. Image Source: St.

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How to Use Social Media to Cultivate Donor Relationships

Achieve

Incentivize engagement by hosting a giveaway or other fun contest just for new followers on your platform of choice. Make sure to mention the contest in your regular emails and newsletters so your entire mailing list will know about it. New blog posts. to start polls or Q&As. Just like. Announcements. Photo galleries.

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Book Giveaway: Facebook Marketing for Dummies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networked Blogs app: If your organization is generating content on a blog, the Networked Blogs App lets you automatically post to your page. Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. I have been wanting to test a poll app to see if having close-ended questions or running a poll might encourage engagement. So I installed this app and set up a poll “Do you think polls increase engagement?