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Dear Moby, Which is Better? Polls or Surveys for Nonprofits 

Whole Whale

“I am curious about ways to best gain feedback from my email audience. Do you think I should use a poll or a survey?”. By sending surveys and polls via emails, of course. Backed up by research from Helpfull , read further to see the breakdown of polls vs. surveys. Top Ways to Use Polls + Surveys.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Online Interaction Tools To Engage Your Audience in the Room and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. Flash polls. I did not have a remote audience. The free version limits you to three polls. Conference.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn?

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Rethink, reuse, and repurpose: How to create more social media content with less work

Candid

Rethink why your organization is on social media It’s likely that your audience logs on to social media expecting to be entertained, educated, or informed. This will help you understand what your audience may be interested in. We like to transform data or previous content into trivia or an opinion poll. Change the content type.

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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

The goal is to move your position forward while engaging your supporter audience. Through integrated multichannel campaigns and intense optimization based on audience and key performance metrics, MESG Marketing helps nonprofits raise more money, grow and cultivate constituent bases, drive advocacy actions, and develop their online brands.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.” ” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information. Even more importantly, what motivates them. So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

Is technology tying your audience in knots? Sharon notes that 50-year longitudinal studies from Gallop Poll, NORC’s General Social Survey, Harris Poll, and Edelman Barometer, find that trust in public institutions and their leaders has declined steadily. Perhaps it’s content that’s missing the mark.