Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

I invited Roz Lemieux is CEO of Attentively and founding partner at Fission Strategy to write a guest post sharing the best and next practices for nonprofits to use listening effectively as part of their social media strategy. New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening Guest Post By Roz Lemieux. Your People Are Talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Every marketer understands the challenge of competing for attention among a sea of content with limited resources. These are techniques even smaller organizations can implement every day to improve their marketing efforts, see more impressive results, and gain even more loyalty from their communities. Conclusion.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Social media polls. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Be sure to track relevant social media metrics , like how many people interact with your polls, to assess the effectiveness and relevance of your interactive content.

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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. I am also experimenting with techniques for network weaving across platforms and curating content related to effective practice of networked nonprofits. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus share their approaches.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like. But if your organization is conducting mostly virtual experiences, such as online fundraising opportunities or campaigns, it can be tricky to retain supporters’ attention. Social media polls. millennials.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Reader Polls. Your message should be easy to take in, easy to understand, and easy to repeat: clear, concise, and memorable. Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. When they are lined up by comfort level, I have been doing a quick poll to see where generations appear along the line. Some may think that tweeting during a workshop may take away from learning or paying attention.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like millennials. But if your organization is conducting mostly virtual experiences, such as online fundraising opportunities or campaigns, it can be tricky to retain supporters’ attention. Social media polls.

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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. Also see the Top Ten Flickr API Hacks and Top Ten Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Managing Attention As Your Curate.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

The success of these programs relies on businesses' attention to both rants and raves about their products and services. While many museums are still far from seamless technology-based ways to allow visitors to rate exhibits real-time while in the museum, there are some no-tech ways to do this using post-its or penny polls.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

We opened the event with a short audience poll about fundraising technology. We live in a multi-media world, and there is a lot of competition for people’s attention – a lot of ‘noise’ Fundraising campaigns used to be characterized by a single message to all prospective donors. GARY: Ditto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

Incorporate content tailored to these dates into your calendar to capitalize on the increased attention and engagement during these periods. Ask questions, conduct polls, or run contests to encourage feedback. Identify Critical Dates: Highlight important dates related to your cause, such as Giving Tuesday, holidays, or awareness days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This post covers some simple techniques to give your fans the content they want most and inspire more engagement. Many times we’re on the hunt for the tips of what to do and when we find them, we just implement them. I also pay attention to and test these variables: Time of Day, Day of Week, Content Type.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Working online can contribute to the state of overwhelmed and distracted – so having attention skills is also a leadership competency. This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. Most educators and psychologists agree that the ability to focus attention on a task is crucial for the achievement of one’s goals.

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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. So I think we need to be paying attention to these trends. . So we definitely need to pay attention to this as a trend in terms of communication, staying in touch with our donors. Maybe it will change this summer.

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