Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our democracy works best when everyone participates, and as nonprofits and social good organizations, it’s up to us to make sure our communities are engaged and voting. Why nonprofit and social good organizations? . Second, when possible, avoid discussing candidates or campaigns. Good luck, and happy voting.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2023

This can be anything from an impact story about a client or volunteer all the way to discussing important industry trends, events or research findings that benefit those in need. Launch Polls & Surveys Start generating data by asking questions!

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

I make a point of varying the format , sometimes using polls or breakout rooms for smaller group discussion and brainstorming. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks. Interestingly, I polled 65 volunteers at our January 2021 Zoom meeting, about how they prefer being appreciated by staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

The use of mobile and social media enhanced the experience beyond having the standard back channel via a hashtag on Twitter, but the substance of his comments resonated. He discussed the topic of regional philanthropy and giving. He urged people in the room to lead with the heart, not the head. Carson , Ph.D., he asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Ten Cool Status Update Tricks.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2023

Spotlight new members: Use your social media or email newsletters to highlight new members by including information about them like their bio and interests. Roundtable discussions: Members can meet in small groups to discuss interesting topics and hear others’ perspectives.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

NTEN & TechSoup have teamed up to deliver a series of webinars on storytelling and social media - and I’m the presenter for the first one! A webinar can be collaborative [ 1 ] and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. Is sharing really caring?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. That’s why I always start a webinar with a framework for learners to assess where they are and what change is needed (if anything) to embrace a new way of doing something. Denial: You can’t measure social media!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. The format is a mix of Ted style presentations and interactive panel discussions. I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. The focus is on Mobile Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Create Free Polls. I ended up today at the Bamboo Project site where Michele takes us through how easy it is to set up a Vizu Poll. Apparently, polls are big on myspace.). Apparently, polls are big on myspace.). Polls typically generate 10 to 100 times more participation than comment fields ??? Add interactivity.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Social media is talked about so much that you probably think every other form of communication is dead (Ok, maybe your thinking isn’t that extreme). Join Our Newsletter is displayed first, followed by links to social media accounts on the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum website. Include Links to Your Social Media Accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

The main part of the call featured case studies by peer grantees who shared their strategies for social media integration, measurable objectives, measurement, and social media techniques, particularly use of Twitter. Next up was Hanna Welch, Social Media Producer, from grist.org. Peer Case Studies.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Survey, poll or focus group. Social media and email have made surveying and polling easy and inexpensive. SurveyMonkey and Doodle Poll offer free platforms with which you can email your stakeholders questions about their interest in a particular event. post may be all you need. . Are they efficient?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the most important lessons that all nonprofit social media managers need to learn is that social media is constantly in flux. Rather than lamenting this new reality, a good social media manager will adapt quickly. You get out of social media what you put into it. And this is a good thing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In this session, we discussed what retention has looked like for organizations during COVID-19 and what predictions we have for audiences returning. On January 11, 2021, a small group of nonprofit leaders came together to discuss how we are connecting to our audiences in a disconnected world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Note from Beth: In the decade or so that I’ve been doing social media, I’ve always been an advocate of the “Listen, Learn, Adapt” approach to doing social and a decade later, it is still very important for success. New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening Guest Post By Roz Lemieux.

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Classy

MAY 18, 2021

We discussed the implications of having remote employees at length with our accounting and finance departments to ensure that as a company, we could support new locations from a process and compliance perspective. Calendly to schedule interviews more efficiently. Hackerrank to simulate whiteboard exercises virtually. Over-communicated.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Social distancing, gathering restrictions, and even lockdown orders have put an end to in-person events for the foreseeable future. With a virtual event, this simple social interaction becomes more complicated. Gamification will encourage social interaction, stimulate the reward centers in our brain, and keep things interested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I do agree/disagree to statements like "Social media is a waste of time" or I do a spectra gram based on personal comfort level and whether or not they feel social media is valuable for their agency. We had an interesting discussion between those who had comfort and those who did not. The group, for the most part, was curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. 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.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In May 2014, Rad Campaign, Lincoln Park Strategies, and Craig Newmark conducted a poll to understand experiences of online harassment. NTEN staff interviewed Rad Campaign''s Allyson Kapin to discuss the poll''s findings. Advocacy Community community management online harassment Organizational Culture Social Media Program'

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

Social distancing, gathering restrictions, and even lockdown orders have put an end to in-person events for the foreseeable future. With a virtual event, this simple social interaction becomes more complicated. Gamification will encourage social interaction, stimulate the reward centers in our brain, and keep things interested.

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Virtual Stream Poll Audience 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). Free2choose is powerful because it introduces social tension.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

First, it will activate the reward system while also speaking to our neurological drive towards belonging and being a part of a social group (more on socialization later!). Quizzes and polls can also have a similar effect by helping steer thoughts towards particular topics. Make it Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

The good news is this is completely avoidable in the Age of Social Media. Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. This proved to be fruitful.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

As a group, I have participants take an online poll or do an exercise with sticky notes, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” ” As the word cloud is created, we discuss the triggers and reactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction. This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Recently, TechSoup hosted a webinar discussing how to use social media to acquire and support volunteers. The webinar explained how each social media tool can be used effectively, how to use the right medium to reach your target audience, and how to manage social media policy for your organization.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Notice that social media didn’t even make the list. When you host an event in a virtual environment, you’re getting access to data and content you can repurpose to steward relationships, grow your social presence, and create new touchpoints to engage, educate, and retain donors. follow on social media, attend our next event, etc.).

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Set up a chatroom on your website or through a “messenger” feature on your most active social networks for your community to be able to connect with each other. Themed breakout sessions that bring people with a common interest can be an avenue to great discussions and new friendships between like-minded donors. Fun and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. My job was the network weaver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). Increase Event Fundraising with Social Media.

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