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Book Giveaway: Facebook Marketing for Dummies

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He presented me with a copy of new book, Facebook Marketing for Dummies. ” So, I immediately jumped to Chapter 6, “Enhancing Your Facebook Page with Applications.” Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that. Mari Smith, The Big List of Apps.

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5 Pros and Cons of Virtual Nonprofit Fundraising Events

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When planning an in-person fundraising event, your organization likely nails down the venue, catering, and entertainment very quickly since these need to be booked months in advance—and can require a significant amount of funds. with polls and surveys to hear from your supporters and give them the opportunity to voice their thoughts.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Test digital engagement tactics like emoji reactions, quick polls and unfortunate consequences of inaction.

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Event Management Software for Nonprofits: Top Tools for 2024

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What we love about Bloomerang Bloomerang’s volunteer dashboards offer a quick way for your event volunteers to fill out online applications and sign up for the opportunities that suit them. Your organization can customize appointment booking workflows to suit your needs while planning your event.

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Things We Like (January 2011)

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Memorizing it may even help you get a job, because: CareerBuilder's IT hiring poll reports that 44% of IT employers will place greater emphasis on social media in 2011. Classic children's books reinterpreted as science-fiction. But gadgets without proper application are nothing. Better brush up on the Twitter. wait for it.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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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. Training is only valuable if participants apply what they learn.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

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Note from Beth: My colleague, Aliza Sherman, has written a book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing and you drop everything and buy it now. We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Click to Purchase Your Copy Now! Measuring Input.

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