Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Twitter: There are two different apps to integrate Twitter. Twitter App automatically re-posts your tweets in your Facebook Page status. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”. Additional Reading About Apps.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

A little while ago, we got a question from a client about Twitter. It’s a good question, and it got me thinking about the kind of content nonprofits might want to share on Twitter on a day-to-day basis, and how an organization can get the most out of microblogging. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Be sure to start your event marketing plan well ahead of time so that you can implement all of your event promotion tactics and work through potential contingencies. . With this added value, attendees will remember your brand, remember aspects of your event, learn from the event, and find inspiration through different sessions. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys. Through what different channels do donors hear from you? . Also note that different people process information differently. CFRE is a fundraising visionary with 30+ years frontline development work helping organizations raise millions in support.

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

With the surge of virtual meeting platforms, and various custom meeting options, businesses are now relying on such innovative meeting solutions to amplify networking, work-from-home options, staying connected, and increasing operational efficiency in the new meeting and business landscape. Polls, Q&As, and live chats.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re limited to a strict fiscal amount, then you’ll have to work around that. While every event is different, there are some distinct ways that you can market your event on a budget. You’ll have help with this software, but you won’t need to hire a social media marketer to do all this work for you.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Run successful ads repeatedly until they stop selling. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A great tool to see how different companies make their product the hero is by looking through swipe files curated by sites like [link].

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Global Giving

APRIL 4, 2019

Philip Manzano Head of Marketing and Communications at Keela Who He Is: Phil has worked as a communications professional within the sector at many levels: grassroots, local, regional and national. This will help you understand what drives your donors to engage with your organization and communicate the value of your work as a fundraiser.

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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. Look for your fundraising events and work backwards from there. If you have a great post or a great story, you can share it lots of different ways. Summarize it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. Is Twitter A Traffic Tool, Not. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets. The rest are coming from other twitter users. Maybe he'll get on Twitter.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

To get a better grasp on this, let’s look at the different types of analytics and what they measure. For example, don’t worry too much about the number of Twitter followers you have if this metric doesn’t lead to an increase in fundraising revenue. . The road to digital analytics maturity. Ask yourself: What are your goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar. For this webinar, I incorporate some instant polls so we could get a quick reading on who was on the call. In addition, I wanted to explore TwitChimp, a tool for making Twitter lists, that Robin Good dubbed, “ the ultimate Twitter list curation tool.”

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

These sorts of asks are a little different from what virtual events typically ask of the event team and the audience. . Most virtual events focus on the presenter, the exhibitors, available sessions, and networking opportunities to create engagement in the virtual chat or to direct attendees to answer poll questions. .

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Candid

AUGUST 4, 2022

There’s a fair amount of debate among social media managers about how much you post on different platforms. While we have a fairly large audience on Twitter (around 145K followers), we only see an average of 1,000 engagements per month. Hypothesis: posting around 20 times per day will lead to greater Twitter engagement. .

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Care2

JUNE 25, 2014

If you work in social media or online advocacy you are no stranger to trolls and online harassment. We at Rad Campaign along with Lincoln Park Strategies and Craig Newmark of craigconnects recently conducted a national online poll about the rise of online harassment. So how do we create safer campaign spaces online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked! Next, I had them work on a strategic digital strategy that incorporated social media, using the POST Framework. I love how the Office in Nicaraqua created a version with emoji. We did this for 5 minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

As community organizers, campaigners, and organizers working to better the world, we know that the tactics and tools we use can dramatically impact our success, and if the tools we have aren’t accessible and aren’t in our control we put ourselves in a position to negatively impact our own success. The added advantage of grou.ps

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

These sorts of asks are a little different from what virtual events typically ask of the event team and the audience. . Most virtual events focus on the presenter, the exhibitors, available sessions, and networking opportunities to create engagement in the virtual chat or to direct attendees to answer poll questions. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

I got through my presentation and look at the Twitter transcript to see what lines or ideas were re-tweeted the most. Also humor, especially with props, works. 2. What worked about the audience interaction activities face-to-face? For example, for the above exercise, I had the online audience take an online poll.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can find her work at www.initlive.com or on Linkedin and Twitter. You can check data points such as the number of hours worked per individual or whether they have worked within the past three months to know exactly who to reach out to. Looking for more resources to help you build a great team of volunteers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

That's why, at the start of any workshop, after the first poll of the room or the webinar attendees, I offer my definition of virtual volunteering: Volunteers completing tasks, in whole or in part, off-site from the organization being assisted, using any Internet-connected device (computer, smart phone, etc.). Is it Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Public opinion polls provide some types of insight, but take time and money. As technology costs drop and communications move online, the future of our work lies in big listening. The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. Big listening is fast, and shows changes over time. It’s possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. It has nothing to do with the tools, have you avoided getting distracted from your to do list or work flow or too much multi-tasking-- social media can be ADD producing. And for spreading buzz for that matter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

We partnered with Fission Strategy to bring you a new guide that explores a simple but powerful tactic to dramatically increase engagement — responding to people as they talk about your work online. How your key stakeholders, donors and activists talk about the issues surrounding your work is not only observable, it is measurable.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

That’s astounding really, but equally astounding, if a whole lot less obvious: your site visitors are increasingly getting to your site from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Source Coding : If you’re not doing it now, set up source coding for the links posted in your interactions on FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.]. Real-Time Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I've been getting Twitter DMs from top players in the nonprofit tech and social media for change space -- sharing how they're unmotivated or jaded with using the web and social media for change. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

When you ask your supporters to do something new or different, you may be able to mobilize those who’ve simply stopped responding to “the same old thing” Even your most committed activists will likely appreciate a break from subject lines that start with “Tell Congress…” or “URGENT”. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

So you need to have as many options as possible that anybody can do, at all different levels." The movement notably used grassroots tactics to drive voters (and previous non-voters) to the polls in support of Obama. It didn't really work (according to Flower). Movement Building and Elections.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Multichannel marketing can also help you better reach different audiences. Social media polls. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Online contests or challenges. Recommit to personalization.

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