Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I also used this poll after different sections of content. The polling after the section of content about how to make goals measurable showed that the needled moved slightly in the other direction, towards hating measurement. Confusion: I don’t know what or how to measure social media. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs!

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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

JUNE 18, 2008

Nancy Schwartz wants you to help her select the winners of the 2008 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards, to be announced in July. The tagline finalists you see here have been carefully culled from the more than 1,050 taglines submitted to Getting Attention Tagline Awards. Hurry, the voting closing on Friday, June 20th.

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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! Thoughtful, simple, directed questions can be a powerful engagement mechanism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. You need to use all the techniques for a medium webinar, but with more deliberative audience polls sprinkled through the session that helps focuses attention on the key content ideas. Medium: Up to 50 people.

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APRIL 26, 2011

In contrast, mobile polling offers is a more structured form of interaction. Nelson Layag , my colleague at Compasspoint, shared how they were experimenting with text polls. There is also Twitter integration.

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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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JUNE 20, 2017

I had participants use an online polling app to type in their answers and it generates a word cloud. Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County.

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JUNE 4, 2012

A blog carnival is a series of blog posts related to one theme, in this case, the promotion of USDA-proposed nutritional standards for snacks in schools, which coincided with a Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project poll showing that most Americans support the guidelines.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

We did a poll on the level of energy in the room after about 30 minutes of sitting. Then afterwards we repeated the poll and they saw how the energy level changed. I introduced them to the idea of walking and movement as work and incorporated some fun energizers that celebrated Latin American culture. We did this for 5 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2018

And according to recent poll s, some 62% of people check their work email while on vacation. Mobile phones and 24/7 connectivity blur the lines between personal and work time, especially during summer break or vacation. And that can ruin your time at the beach and more importantly prevent you from reaping the full benefits of taking break.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Group Polling Techniques and Tools. How To Design Transformative Capacity Building for Nonprofits. How To Get Started Designing Peer Learning That Works. Peer Learning As A Prelude to Collective Action. I cebreakers and Closers. Creating a Network Map. Icebreakers Tips and Tricks. The Art of Good Closers. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

And, if they were a little bit more transparent - they could get some feedback about to shape this exit poll more effectively. This would be valuable data to share with nonprofits - especially the data set for the specific cause as well as the aggregate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Before I even set up this quick flash poll , I received an email from a colleague who had already compared and benchmarked their page with peer organizations using ”PATP” – dividing the total People Talking About number by the total of Facebook likes.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

She advises using various parts of the Grunig instrument which you can be done for free using Survey Monkey or Zoomerang or a poll on a blog. I asked her how do you measure relationships?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The study (which was also featured in the Wall Street Journal , summarizes the results of a poll of 600 women. a study of women online donors and how the Internet is changing the nature of political engagement for women. Some key findings: The Internet enhances key values that motivate women to give.

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JUNE 29, 2016

We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers. Andrea Berry had moved onto another job by then, and so Jeanne Allen took her place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time. Use Twitter in beginning as part of poll of audience questions -Use Twitter during small groups to cross pollinate -Use Twitter at the full group report out.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

The polls are open! s more passionate about travel than you, our community. s why we want you to tell us where this gift should go. These organizations are helping the people and places you encounter when you travel. Vote today at tripadvisor.com/Causes. And thanks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2006

You can sign up to video polling places and submit reports and clips to the site. They will document and report any irregularities that occur at polling places and boards of elections while they are happening, enabling the media and public to watch-dog the electoral process across our country.

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JULY 23, 2008

m now adding a section suggesting that the moderator first poll his community using some of these tools, and to also monitor the back channel in real time, while not all conferences will embrace a back channel, it???s Recently, I wrote a post that has been passed around many conferences on how to successfully moderate a panel.

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APRIL 10, 2007

I want to do a quick poll. I've been thinking about Twitter behavior and how people are using it. So, to test the question, I posted it on Twitter last night: "I'm curious about your twitter behavior. do you use it to: 1-brag; 2-report; 3-scan others updates; 4-gossip; 5-spread news; or other? " The responses are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The back-channel had a poll feature and one of the questions about change agents inside of nonprofits. She recommended a book from the HR perspective called Brand Inside Essentials. Rekha, shared this essay about the generational differences in public media organizations when it comes to innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. You don’t need a team of crack market researchers to question your supporters about who they are and what they value. You can use a simple online survey tool like Google Drive or SurveyMonkey to collect information about your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

She made her point by doing a quick poll of people in the audience. It means communicating through a network model, rather than a broadcast model—finding where the conversations are happening and taking part. Putting that into approach into practice is not always easy or fast as Debbie explained in her talk.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

There's a poll on the nptech community site to vote for a name based on the discussions so far. If you'd like to cast a vote, here's the link to the poll. If you're scratching your head and asking, nptech community? what's that. read Marnie Webb's description for context. I like two out of the five. Tag: nptech

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MARCH 17, 2006

This is the results of a recent poll that N-TEN published in its March Newsletter. The respondents would be nonprofit techies, although it doesn't indicate the sample size.

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DECEMBER 1, 2006

So, I decided to use his scale and create a widget poll. This prompted me to wonder about nonprofit flickr contact behavior and create the above poll. Answer the poll and drop a comment about the other questions. Ahh, that makes my ego feel niiiiice, ooooh, more please??? educational??? software, eh? Some more questions too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

For example, for the above exercise, I had the online audience take an online poll. Our session was lived streamed. I had organized parallel online activities that mirror what we were doing the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

No more waiting for the Pony Express to deliver a parcel cross-country, no more waiting for web services to communicate from one polling instance to another. This is information being available to you at nearly the moment it's produced, whether you're watching for it or not.

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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. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Since the morning keynote was a session on nonprofit leadership by two of the co-authors of Working Across Generations , Frances Kunreuther and Helen Kim , while they were lined up, I did a quick poll by generation. Not surprising, generations somewhat correlated with social media experience/comfort level with one exception.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

This works for a small group of 12 or less. (If you have a larger group, you can use an online polling app like Slido that allows participants to use their cells to share their answers and automatically generates a word cloud.) 4) Meet and Greet: Word Cloud. You can use sticky notes or capture the words on white board or paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2006

People want to use widgets to be messengers whether it is a fundraising vehicle or poll." The key is to let people upload their own text, photos, or video about why they care about a cause and then link to the cause. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger.

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