Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Questions and polling. Think about allowing others to add their own options to the poll – when is it appropriate, and when is it unnecessary or confusing. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Conversations will naturally spring up in the comments section of your document.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Create an event hashtag, run live polling, share videos from past events and blog posts from your branded event website. By taking questions and comments from the online audience, you make them a part of the conversation. Consider creating a social media wall where you display the conversations taking place on your event Twitter feed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

I’ve combined some of my favorite RSS feeds from the NPTech community, Social Entrepreneurship sector, and Philanthropy news. Just leave a comment with your recommendations and I’ll add it! I’m really excited about the personal pages on Alltop - so much so that I created mine and want to share it with you!

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

Be honest with yourself: If you saw your content while scrolling through your feed, would you stop to read it? Simple things like polls and surveys or Q&A sessions can go a long way to increase social media engagement with your brand. If people have questions or comments, respond and make them feel personally recognized.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s worth noting that LinkedIn Analytics provide a module for monitoring LinkedIn employee advocacy where nonprofits can view their LinkedIn Page engagement by employees, such as recommendations, posts, share activity, comments, and reactions. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Run interesting Twitter polls. You can easily make it feel like a community by engaging in the conversations happening in the comments on your posts. You can quickly enhance brand exposure and engagement with just a few posts a day and add value to your follower’s feeds. . Using this content type doesn’t take much of your time.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The polls close at midnight on Halloween. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Through pages, you can publish content that will appear in the main news feed, send messages and other notifications to a large list of fans, and create interactive content. Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Need help improving your social media skills? Help foster that.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

80% of your posts should add value to your followers’ social media feeds. Do a survey, do a poll, do a Facebook Live, call people on the phone, do a focus group. People usually need to hear things seven to 10 or even 12 times before they really get it. If you have a great post or a great story, you can share it lots of different ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. joewaters @ kanter Re: @ mary_joyce comments. Please leave a comment. Just as Catrina has done with their new campaign! See example of EQCA No on Prop8 [link].

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. When you make a post, it gets added to your followers' Twitter feeds and if they re-tweet your content, everyone following their Twitter feed sees what you posted, and their followers can re-tweet said info, and so on, and so on.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. She goes on to cite a poll by Harris Interactive which found "only one in 10 Americans strongly believes charities are honest and ethical in their use of donated funds."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. What problem does a widget solve?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. Leave a Comment. Comments (required). RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. Reader Polls. Rebecca Muller. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Name (required).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . Using the clickers, they go instant polling results. The introduction/primer covered different Web 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" To create a new comment, use the form below. For more details, check out the full survey.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I thought I would leave my first comment. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals or republish your feeds.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. by age, interest, activism level).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Turn on commenting to stimulate group dialog around your posts. . House Network : Bite off the whole enchilada an socially-enable your site fully by supporting visitor profiles, friending, activity feeds, discussion, ratings and reviews, etc. Discussion Groups : Consider adding a discussion board to your site.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. Social media polls. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Picture this: it’s a Saturday morning and you’re laying in bed.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago. Increased traffic?

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago. Increased traffic?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" They have multiple, creative opporunities to engage through online quizzes, polls and games.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

If you haven’t yet noticed, three very important changes have been made that significantly effect your organization’s Facebook community: 1) Status Updates are no longer guaranteed to get exposure in the News Feed. More are seemingly showing up in the News Feed > Most Recent view, but definitely not all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

Create Free Polls. If you haven't had a chance to take the poll, please click through your reader and vote now! The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency. On-blog measurements include site traffic logs as well as commenting. s URL or IP address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Sometimes I think I have an important post, but it does not get comments, so I don't know what people think (and if they even read it :)). I'm too shy to do an online poll. s blogs feed (if you can deal with an overflow of posts that is.) I would be interested to know if this is what readers think. Practical examples.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. Social media polls. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Picture this: it’s a Saturday morning and you’re laying in bed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. It will come up in their feed either on Instagram, or Facebook, or even on LinkedIn, and then they will start to comment, or like, or share, or do some of that engagement. Steven is going to bring it up. Here we go. Steven: Yeah.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How many comments do nonprofits have? The average was 797 comments, while the median was 74.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How many comments do nonprofits have? The average was 797 comments, while the median was 74.

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