Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

The only time we reach out to them is when we ask them for money.&# His advice was to schedule “heart time.&# – That is meet with your donors and engage with them — share a story that isn’t linked to an ask. What terrific advice for social media strategies too. Put them on the donor list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Well-maintained groups can be excellent forums for asking for advice or sharing thought leadership relevant to your organization’s mission and programs, but rarely are they appropriate for posting fundraising pitches or calls to follow your organization on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

In the comments on my post, &# Likes on Facebook Are Not A Victory: Results Are ,&# Carie Lewis shared her killer deck on PREZI offers some advice for engaging your network after they click the “like&# button. Why I Don’t “Like&# You on Prezi. It was too good not to share. It was too good not to share.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

We reviewed the advice and are bringing you the highlights of Show the Love: Thoughtful Engagement to Retain Donors. One way to check in with your donors is to send out a poll or survey to figure out exactly what they need from you to get more involved in your issues. But first, why should you care?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

When asked what nonprofit organizations can do to build relationships with media, the panelists provided sage advice. Neel also suggested, “Use data that comes out of a poll and use it to build a series on a subject, such as the social determinants of health.” “The story is the starting point to create the conversations,” Chan added.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 4, 2014

Or maybe you are still in the decision process (if it helps, here’s a helpful guide from Software Advice that we look to from time to time). ” Reach out and invite your donors to tell you more about themselves – offer polls and surveys, ask for feedback on website content, and use social media.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 9, 2014

If you are an environmental advocacy organization, do you have the ability to conduct online polling? Most importantly, you want to make sure you are providing sound advice to the organization’s management team while keeping to your duty of fiscal oversight and leading the organization to greater outcomes. You get the idea.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can incorporate fun polls and surveys to engage potential participants and appeal to your advocates. Remember, since most of your volunteers probably haven’t participated in a P2P fundraiser before, they’ll need some advice and guidance to ensure they reach their personal fundraising goals.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2016

His informal poll helped guide the list, and the comments below the article are worth reading. Companies like ROAR serve churches with specific advice and expertise in creating affordable church apps. Back in April 2013, Thom S. Rainer blogged about Five Things Church Members Want in a Church Bulletin.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Their advice will help you focus in on #GivingTuesday and guide your organization, message, and campaign towards new heights. Poll your supporters so you can identify and segment personas, allowing you to better target your messaging on #GivingTuesday and all year long.

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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. Any advice about using Google Wave? Key Instructional Concepts As Tweets. look here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

I The group will be between 50-125, so it will be more of lecture, although I will definitely use the back-channel and instant poll features. What words of advice would you offer to other Extension professionals who are just starting to blog? What is the biggest challenge? tools creatively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Since the NTEN Academy is a peer exchange program, I did more than simply chunk content and encourage interaction through polls, the backchannel chat, and people talking on the phone line every 12 minutes. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

It would be hard to answer this as a comment of a blog post too or if someone was doing a quick poll. What advice would you give? It was too hard to answer in 140 characters in any depth or without it being misunderstood. I don't think it is a black of white question, a question of voting on one tool versus other. I think it depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Inspiration and Ideas: Paul Sanchez, like Holly, uses Twitter for quick polls, but also uses it as a source for inspiration. I think some of the best advice for being effective using Twitter comes from Howard Greenstein via Chris Brogan. It includes advice for both a twitter presence for traffic or for listening or conversation.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2011

During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus share their approaches.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. This guide will provide helpful advice, tips and success stories that can better help you keep your 2009 resolutions.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

They seek advice from experts who tell them that they need to “engage” more, or have more “engaging” content, or build more “engagement” strategies. Use polls to ask a question. Polls are a win-win concept. When it comes to nonprofit marketing , I cringe every time I hear the words “engage”, “engaging” or “engagement.”

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Candid

AUGUST 4, 2022

If you Google it, you’ll see hundreds of articles offering advice that ranges from detailed instructions to more general speculation. . The tweets were a mix of our own content, including polls, threads, and links, and retweeted content. . Methodology . What does this mean for your strategy? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. 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. mean for you? hard to use ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

For advice on designing your mobile site, check out Designing for the Mobile Web by Lacey Kruger.). And Chrissy Faessen of Rock the Vote shared that they found attendance at the polls on election day increases 3 to 4 percent when their constituents receive a text message the day before, reminding them to vote.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Adding social content, supporters, and features to your site makes socially sourced visitors feel more at home, and introduces all your visitors to their peers -- your supporters, their thoughts, advice, opinions, insights, needs, recommendations, and ratings. Long before Facebook, there was Geocities, which failed.

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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. Then had a discussion having the ready folks give advice to the not ready. . We did mostly full room discussion, but I broke it up with some moving around exercises. Here's the full room exercises. (1) tags: nptech youth ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. " My Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

In between sections, I asked people to do a standing poll. During the report out, I showed some additional resources or techniques and asked for advice in the room. I do the interactive lecture technique - and invite other voices into the mix as much as possible and encourage questions. First you ask people to stand up.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

I'm talking about tools for building catalogs calendars forums polls and surveys newsletter mailings frequently asked questions download pages member logon and the like. I see a lot of associations and not-for-profits struggling with their websites. As in so many other areas of life, first make sure you are using the right tool for the job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. NonprofitCMS blog focuses on practical advice for needs, wants, and woes of nonprofit son the Internet. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

According to Independent Sector , a new donor poll suggests that “among the nearly two-thirds of Americans (60%) who are very concerned about inflation or experiencing economic stress in the next six months to a year, 49% are planning to donate less this year than last year, significantly higher than the 24% for voters as a whole.”

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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. I'm working on a piece about widgets and nonprofit blogs (some context here and here ). off-blog???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Perhaps improved storytelling (text, images, videos, polls, stickers, etc.) For further advice on using Facebook Stories effectively, please see this Complete Guide to Facebook Stories. would increase the ROI, but in truth, there are more important projects to focus on than investing time and resources into our Facebook Stories.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Carie Lewis , internet marketing manager at HSUS, explains how the nonprofit organization pitched the low cost campaign and shares advice to other nonprofits looking to do the same. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. Almost free.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

Carie Lewis , internet marketing manager at HSUS, explains how the nonprofit organization pitched the low cost campaign and shares advice to other nonprofits looking to do the same. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. Almost free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I'm too shy to do an online poll. What advice would you give to someone about starting a blog? 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 :)). Communities of practice theory. Practical examples. Technology.

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