Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

A short list of recommended apps for marketing Facebook Pages: YouTube Video app : If you have an active Nonprofit YouTube Channel, you might want to share those videos on your Facebook page automatically by creating tab for your channel. The best app is from Involver. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Donor retention is the second-highest concern for nonprofits, according to the 2022 CCS Philanthropy Pulse survey. Consider how often you thank supporters and remind them of their charitable impact across all channels. But now organizations are left with one question: How can you keep donors acquired during the Covid crisis?

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Repurposing your content is a great way to create “new” engaging assets that you can share on your social media channels to reach volunteer prospects, while saving time. According to a recent survey , 94% of marketers repurpose their content, and the remaining 6% are thinking about doing so in the future.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Focus on optimizing donation channels for mobile.

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

You can consider adding a survey question or two to your registration form to find out more about your audience and what drives them. Encourage people to use your specific event hashtag or perform other tasks like submitting questions for speakers, and interaction with your social media channels.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. So, if someone was looking to put together a monthly calendar for their social media channels, what are the types of posts they should look to include in that plan?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Conduct a bit of market research to determine your target audience’s preferred communication channels. Then, consider the following marketing channels and choose a handful that you think will work best for your unique audience and marketing goals: TV and radio spots. Give attendees more to do.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

To expand your audience, consider how you can take a multi-channel marketing approach. Actively build a community by connecting with supporters through their preferred communication channels. Listen to your supporters’ needs by sending surveys and polls where they can provide feedback.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

With millions surfing the web at any given moment, social channels have proven to be super valuable as a way to keep in touch with friends and family ? Like any other marketing channel, you have to know what you’re working towards to promote your cause effectively. Post a Facebook survey. Run interesting Twitter polls.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

blogs, videos, photos, etc… Social media platform insights can offer a lot of this information but doing an informal survey or poll can also work to learn more about your audiences. What type of content do they respond to best? Personas are data-driven but fictionalized representations of your supporters.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Conversion Rate Once your organization has a bustling community of supporters on social media, how do you channel their enthusiasm into meaningful impact? Regardless of the channels your nonprofit chooses , however, there are steps you can take to improve your ROI.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 10, 2023

Considering marketing channels. Determine what marketing channels your supporters frequent and how friendly those channels are for marketing merchandise. To learn more about your audience’s preferences, consider asking them through surveys and online polls. Encourage supporters to help promote your products.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Knowing what channels to use—like whether you need to email donors versus posting on Facebook—is one thing. You can try: Sending donor surveys. Sharing conversation starters, polls, or even quizzes on social media can inspire lots of engagement. But that doesn’t mean analog channels aren’t valuable!

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Global Giving

APRIL 4, 2019

Communication preferences—what channels of communications do your donors prefer? All this information can be collected through donor surveys, sent after an event or after a newsletter subscription, for example. Results from donor surveys or feedback forms. Donor source—where do your donors come from? How can you adapt to them?

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AccelEvents

JULY 9, 2020

You can consider adding a survey question or two to your registration form to find out more about your audience and what drives them. Encourage people to use your specific event hashtag or perform other tasks like submitting questions for speakers, and interaction with your social media channels.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys. Online giving is the fastest growing giving channel per research by M+R. Through what different channels do donors hear from you? . If your content isn’t shared or engaged with, it’s not doing much good. . Automate what you can, but don’t be a robot. A phone call?

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

In fact, data has found that nonprofits who are hosting virtual events are using the same channels and tactics to steward donors as they would in the in-person setting. In a survey of 200 nonprofit organizations, Freewill found that nonprofits using virtual technology plan to steward major donors as follows: Phone conversations (21.6%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Can mobile drive volunteers activists, to engage across other media channels? In this case, we were talking about how to integrate the use of mobile technology into multi-channel campaigns with an emphasis on social. It was powerful to watch the poll results come in live on the screen.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Utilize discussions boards, polls, blogs, surveys and social media to actively engage participants throughout the fundraising campaign. And finally, thank everyone (often) – In emails, on websites, through social media channels, in person, and at the event. Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Consumer Survey. 4) Activate.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

To build your remote audience, leverage the following marketing channels: . with polls and surveys to hear from your supporters and give them the opportunity to voice their thoughts. Social media. Post exciting content on relevant. social media. Add gamification tools. Conduct check-ins. Hold Q&A sessions.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

For this reason, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) commissioned primary research to survey consumers about text-to-give fundraising for the benefit of the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada and charities that use mobile giving. Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Preference and Opinion – this is something that you can survey or poll your donors on, and collecting this information via an online portal is a great idea. Donors that we communicate with through multiple channels, especially channels that deliver a consistent message, have been found to be much better long term supporters.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Actively build a community by connecting with supporters through their preferred communication channels. Listen to your supporters’ needs by sending surveys and polls where they can provide feedback. Creating experiences that fulfill their needs. Be sure to actively incorporate their comments so they know their opinions matter.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2022

A HubSpot survey found that 47% of consumers would be open to making a purchase from a chatbot , signally that audiences are increasingly more trustworthy of chatbots to conduct a transaction such as a donation. Learn how starting a two-way conversation directly on your website can channel interest right away! Watch the webinar today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You can’t use this tactic in China, for example, where Facebook (and Twitter, among other social media channels) is blocked. Survey Your Tribe. You can use a simple online survey tool like Google Drive or SurveyMonkey to collect information about your audience. After all, people love to read about themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. Regularly collects data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I select what I do based on an online pre-survey. . For example, how many get excessive emails or phone calls requesting information and how could be reduced by adding a social channel? He shared some great wisdom about the agency's YouTube Channel. There could potentially be a bad reflection back to the institution. ".

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

As an event organizer, you can organize the agenda in a way that allows remote attendees to customize their event experience by enabling them to choose which sessions they wish to attend, creating multiple networking channels, providing gamification , and offering multiple content types.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Implement things like virtual scavenger hunts, quizzes, and live polls. Social channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even LinkedIn, can help you reach your target audience. Each one of these ads should push people to your social channels and your website for more information. Make use of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

It takes several iterations of your survey to develop one that works, but you really gain a good understanding of the level of your audience. Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Channel your best back-to-school nostalgia and reunion-of-old-friends vibes. Run a Survey. Run an online poll to find out what people liked and what could be different. Use an anonymous online survey or opt for something more fun such as poll stickers on Instagram stories. Tie in a Stewardship Campaign.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

This versatile software helps you consolidate donor data, centralize assets, enable the creation of integrated campaigns across various channels, and provides analytics on donor engagement. Some of the tools this platform offers includes customizable event apps, registration and ticketing, live polling, surveys, and analytics.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. The required paper signage identifying polling places must only be posted by the entrance of each location, which means they are often located on side streets out-of-view for anyone on the sidewalks.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Implement things like virtual scavenger hunts, quizzes, and live polls. Social channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even LinkedIn, can help you reach your target audience. Each one of these ads should push people to your social channels and your website for more information. Make use of social media.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Evaluation: Evaluating your programming and surveying your volunteers for feedback Volunteer management software allows you to manage each of these steps in a centralized platform. Effectively communicate with volunteers by sending personalized emails, texts, and even polls. What is a volunteer management system?

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

using the chat window, responding to a poll, writing names on a whiteboard, and of course speaking via a teleconference or VOIP. Use the technology available to vary activity with video or slides, interactive polling, application sharing or whiteboard. Some ways for users to participate are: raising their ?hands?, After the meeting.

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