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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. to start polls or Q&As. Just like. a multi-channel approach to fundraising.

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Book Giveaway: Facebook Marketing for Dummies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). Please share in the comments and you could win a copy of John’s book. Mari Smith, The Big List of Apps.

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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. I have been wanting to test a poll app to see if having close-ended questions or running a poll might encourage engagement.

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Is the New Facebook “People Talking About” Metric As Meaningless as Number of Likes?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve never run an ad for more fans, or done silly contests or anything else, you know? Checking in at a place. The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. Size has never mattered to us.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

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The term "virtual volunteering" is a contested term. Share your favorite tools - or questions about tools - in the comments below or at the Digital Engagement branch of the TechSoup Community forum ! The results: Yes: 32% No: 68%. So I went through the workshop and then, at the end, asked the question again. Is it Facebook?

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