Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

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. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2009

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum).

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Online Polling Tools. Poll Function on Hubpages - "I have also found the poll function on. The polls on. About Net2 Think Tank: Net2 Think Tank is a monthly blogging/social networking event open to. Blog, or using social media. " Tip from Christopher Nicholas on Linkedin. customers are."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Be one of the first to experience how you can engage audiences with robust polling features, see how quickly participants are able to join meeting with no downloads, and check out the slick new interface. Tags: Online Seminar Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Register today to secure your place!

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In the four decades since the development of Election Day exit polling, this is the largest gap ever seen in a presidential election between the votes of those under and over age 30. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether your grassroots organization relies on social networks or thrives on face to face (F2F) contact, these five basic tips will help you achieve your fundraising goals more successfully. Fundraising through dependence on email and social network marketing can be tremendously successful for grassroots organizations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These are some essential sources for information: social networks, blogs, interviews, surveys, polls, and in-depth interviews. Tags: Online Advocacy Online Organizing Technology. We might have even anticipated their needs and given them something they didn’t even know they wanted, but liked.

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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. How does this change our connectedness on online social networks ? Tags: realtimeweb. It adds more choices, how do we filter, prioritize, etc. Here's some links: .

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Here’s a few ways schools are getting their students to share content on their Facebook page … Pictures (the key is to have them tag friends and family): Of themselves in their school apparel. Polls: Ask poll questions using the poll features. With classmates. Working on projects. On class trips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

1) Audience Stand Up Poll: Whenever I talk about social media and nonprofits, we talk about audience. tags: nptech youth ). In the why it is important section, I went through the social networking from birth to high school slides. Here's the full room exercises. (1) The discussion was fantastic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

jaygoldman @ kanter Rewarding verified offline actions with online social credit. Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. Tags: network effectiveness. I suggest a tweetup. chloevdc @ kanter. remind them that the tools they use can only go so far.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Presence information is a key asset of the real-time web.

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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. . While you're at it, sort out what percentage of your site traffic is coming from social sites in the first place. Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

IMO, social media tools are pretty poor at changing anything that takes more than one or two mouse-clicks. Sometimes that's all you need - making a donation, sending petitions, affecting website ratings, flooding online polls, etc. Tags: guest blogging social media socialnetworking.

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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. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? I'm too shy to do an online poll. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. Technology.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Why compete with a social network giant that can do everything bigger and better than you? There is no safe, family-friendly social networking site for young children, teachers, and parents. Another interesting site to check out is imbee , a new social networking site for kids ages 8-14.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. Tags: Facebook ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media. It’s time for them to give back. To think about again.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. let’s you listen to mp3 format before you upload it to be sure it sounds right, add tags, etc. Social networking - use it to promote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets. Polls are a great way to get reader feedback too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. In a social environment and it is mysterious why one thing works or does not. Social network platforms are an example. Poll your members where are they? Tags: 09ntc. There is no secret sauce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Most nonprofits are experimenting with social media, but few can or are measuring its impact. I have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. Poll your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. The paper provides a theoretical overview of social networks and important trends.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But The Harris Poll that was conducted between late March and early May found that between 46% and 51% of U.S. adults were using social media more since the outbreak began. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, 1 billion monthly users each, and teenagers spend more time sending DMs, IMs than perusing social networks.

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