Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Polling capabilities enable quick decision-making between and leading up to meetings. By identifying the trends and behavior of your organization’s site visitors, you can better understand where the issues on your site lie. Visitor recordings allow your organization to track real behavior on your site.

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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. If your site is running on WordPress, WP Touch is a great free plugin to make your site more mobile-friendly (ChurchTechToday uses this plugin, FYI). This article originally appeared on ChurchTechToday's website.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

New and existing donors, volunteers, and others could be frustrated with perhaps their first interaction with your organization, miss out on particular initiatives, or never return to your site. The simple answer is to check your web analytics to see how many people visit your site from a mobile device. Make Updates a Breeze.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

If your audience is accessing your site with limited bandwidth, you may want to keep your content basic with no unnecessary bulk. So, if you're serious about video, and like the control of hosting it on your site, try a content delivery network (CDN). Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Neylon’s answer was one of the links in Brian Kelly’s article on Quora. Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Add a link to your newsletter or other mailings, let your donors know about the page at events, and include share buttons on all your electronic communications, your blog, and other networking sites. Like this article? Get another!

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Care2

JUNE 8, 2010

They send you shorter, more frequent updates through phone calls, email messages, the occasional greeting card, and updates on social networking sites where you’ve connected. They ask you questions about how you are doing too (think online surveying and polling). as well as images and video.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

Russ and I both agreed that the main barrier is the catch 22 of social sites: the wiki is not attractive to users if it is not yet rich with useful information -- but this will not happen until people begin using it. Step two is that the wikimaster takes active responsibility for getting the first fifty articles on the site.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Polls and surveys indicate that people are more likely to donate to a cause that they know is making a difference, but the question is: How do you let people know, without a doubt, that your nonprofit is succeeding in its mission? Sites like Fiverr will find someone out in the wild to do the job for you, cheap and easily.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). It was at a time when President Obama's poll numbers were very low, and his chances of re-election very slim. Public Good invites charities to join a cause on its site, and to be listed along with other nonprofits working on that same cause. They work in combination.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. The article is actually a blog post published last week on Sean Stannard-Stocktons Tactical Philanthropy Blog. I just saw another interesting article that is loosely related to this topic.

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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. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? On social networks on the organization’s web site, 25.2% There was also a webinar presentation of the results. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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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! " Lucy Bernholz offers some commentary here and is taking a poll on the topic here. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. tools in their web sites. Five Hot Conversations. Change the World!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Screenshot of article page – note the “read more” boxes, which link to the resources online. We also wanted to make the journal interactive: like all of NTEN programming and resources, we wanted it to be a launching pad to connect you with peers, colleagues, and other resources in the community. The content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Here's a roundup of what I learned: Someone in my network said I should contact Carmen Van Kerckhove who told me: I'm afraid I don't know any studies that specifically address POCs using social media, but there have been a lot of articles about bloggers of color and how they're rising to prominence. Twitter Poll - ???Which

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

You can also invite your current supporters and constituents by linking to your LinkedIn Group on your site or in an email. Group members can ask questions or share online articles without directly emailing each other. The group manager can approve or reject requests to join the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Open Graph is a way of connecting any website to Facebook so that people using that website can opt-in to automatically share what they are doing in real time—listening to music, reading articles, shopping, supporting nonprofits, etc.—with with their Facebook friends. The short answer is, invest in your grassroots organizing capacity.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Consumption will be invisible if not tracked, so you’ll want to use your analytics software, such as Google Analytics, to measure the following: The amount of time spent on the site and the page. Use polls to ask a question. Polls are a win-win concept. The number of pages per visit. How far people are scrolling on the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. 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? Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Also, be sure to read Sean's summary of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about how a new generation is reinventing fundraising. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Check the web site for the application and more details. young people??? " I agree.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative." Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features. Receive monthly updates.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative." Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

But just two months after the terrorist attacks, nearly half of charities polled reported a decrease in funding. Another fundraising mentor, Ellis Robinson, writes on the One NorthWest site in a similar vein. Despite Katrina, your current members continue to care about your issue and understand that your work is valuable.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here’s how to test your idea out and gain initial feedback: Go to any networking event to test your idea with professionals you don’t know (no polling friends, family or co-workers!) Filing your articles of incorporation allows you to be recognized as a business entity in your state. How do they respond?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In creating a social media plan, every single post you make on any social media platform should serve one of the following purposes: Informational articles showing the impact of your work and why there is a need. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. JUST for fun! Original Content.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago. The HSUS winner got over 90,000 views of her video.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago. The HSUS winner got over 90,000 views of her video.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

They promoted the campaign through social media sites and raised $300k online within two months. They have multiple, creative opporunities to engage through online quizzes, polls and games. 2 Comments | by Share Article in Misc.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? At least not yet.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, their article about a group of women who started a coffee cooperative in Vietnam does an excellent job telling the women’s story and setting the scene before mentioning how the nonprofit gave its support. This resource highlights 30 effective sites, many of which also have informative, engaging blogs.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Matching Planning to Site Goals. For some projects, that may still make sense.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? At least not yet.

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Those sites let users know in advance when big changes are coming. In both articles, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes is quoted saying that though the anti-Obama page “may be considered distasteful and objectionable to some,&# it doesn’t violate Facebook’s policies. I just don’t think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. Facebook manipulates what we see on the site to keep us there longer. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes.

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Achieve

JULY 14, 2022

Email 1: Introduce your goal of protecting wildlife from extinction and invite them to read a blog post on your site about endangered species. . Then, allow them to make their voices heard with a survey or poll. Snowball’s article on fundraising software. Follow these steps to an effective welcome campaign: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

So I asked a few questions to determine the level of experience and current challenges and used the Webinar platform polling features. Most were answered in the presentation as well as the article and few great questions were asked and I will certainly address in future blog posts. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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