Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. That said, it’s important to understand that the type of content that performs best on LinkedIn is a bit different than Facebook and more similar to Twitter.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

BeSpeake clients have: Paid closer attention to the content and slides. Worked with their speakers to add interactive elements, from polls to contests. Some attendees are content to focus on the sessions. Polls and contests to add sparkle to a session or break. Coached speakers to become better presenters.

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Candid

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And most importantly, get them used to engaging with your content. Here are a few types of content you can add to your social media plan to support your success this giving season. This is a great way to get some easy content ready to share, while also reminding your audience of the amazing things you’ve done over the last year.

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Start by Creating Compelling Content Content that is compelling to you, may not be compelling to your volunteers. Your nonprofit has a unique opportunity to create inspiring and meaningful content on social media that resonates with your volunteers and volunteer prospects. Here are some tips for creating engaging content.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Try to build the content around tasks that can be accomplished where the attendees are. Perhaps you line up a popular motivational speaker or lifestyle influencer to help balance out more serious event content. Polls and Q&As. of virtual event organizers use polls to increase interactions. In fact, 81.8%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

.” My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed, Guest Post By Elisa Batista, Donna Norton, and Monifa Bandele from Momsrising. It’s every blogger’s nightmare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2014

Add a “Donate” button to every page of your website and blog which is mostly easily done by integrating it into your site’s navigation. The vast majority of “Thank You” landing pages are text-only and lacking in interesting content. Advertise your fundraising campaigns on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Twitter Polls: Twitter Polls , the ability to do a flash survey, have been integrated with Tweets for some time. Here’s an example of how AskACurator used polls. Twitter polls are limited to four answer options and have a lifespan of a week. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In this blog, we’ll talk about the importance of getting to know your audience and how you can use purpose-driven communications to build lasting relationships. What type of content do they respond to best? I’ll end with a particularly great question that I like to share in my webinars and blogs… “Do we need this email?”

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Developing personalized messaging for different segments Use targeted AI prompts to help develop content that specifically appeals to different groups. You can use generative solutions to help draft full email messages, text messages, blog post outlines, direct mail letters, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Create Free Polls. I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I ended up today at the Bamboo Project site where Michele takes us through how easy it is to set up a Vizu Poll. Apparently, polls are big on myspace.). Add interactivity.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 21, 2023

Engage with your followers by asking for feedback, running polls, and sharing user-generated content. The post Attracting and Retaining Millennial and Gen-Z Donors appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. These generations are tech-savvy and spend a lot of time on social media platforms.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. If you have a link to your Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Flickr, and YouTube, but not your email signup, your visitors may assume you don’t have a list to join. But that’s not the case. Add it to your Facebook Apps.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Q&A and polling. Conversely, virtual attendees can feel more connected to the event content and the virtual experience as a whole. . Therefore, use app notifications to let attendees know about changes, live polling, gamification start times, and gamification results. Session live streams. Vaccine card verification.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2023

The first blog, The Economy’s Impact on Philanthropy , detailed how economic instability has changed fundraising. Our first blog outlined how donors are also impacted by inflation and what their giving habits look like during such a period. This blog will cover the data and takeaways we gathered about fundraising events.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering relevant content marketing. Your website serves as the central hub for your digital strategy, followed closely by the ways you drive folks to your website, including email, blog posts, newsletters, social media, text messaging, QR codes in print media, and advertising. Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other event budgeting tips to consider: Ask if the marketing materials can be used for another upcoming event or as evergreen content. Consider ‘free’ ways of promoting your event through content marketing , like writing a blog post, going on a podcast, or self-promotion on social media.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? To combat this, you will need to focus on producing quality content and include event features that encourage participation. Virtual escape rooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Networked Blogs app: If your organization is generating content on a blog, the Networked Blogs App lets you automatically post to your page. Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

A poll on your Instagram stories, e-newsletter, or other active social channel will give you insights into where your supporters are most likely to engage. The same followers who have devoured your visual content on Instagram may not be as likely to engage on a text-based platform like Threads. Already made the leap?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Twitter can additionally do some of the things that Facebook can do, including the posting of photos, links, and polls. It is also a smart tool for networking, which can be done easily through the retweeting of relevant content. You can additionally maintain a blog on Linkedin to establish thought leadership in your sector.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

When you host an event in a virtual environment, you’re getting access to data and content you can repurpose to steward relationships, grow your social presence, and create new touchpoints to engage, educate, and retain donors. Virtual events give you immediate access to digital content you need to help grow your presence across social media.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 5, 2018

TED Twitter polls. TED , a nonprofit that spreads ideas through short, motivational talks, has been using Twitter polls to their advantage this year by asking their audience which topics and speakers they’d like to hear from next. The organization has also been including polls after their blog posts to gauge readers’ reactions.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

There was so much great content being shared this week across the blogosphere for nonprofit campaigners. Check out our blog picks of the week. And feel free to tell us your favorite blog posts from this past week in the comments section. Trying to decide on what date to have something, throw up a poll. They want to help.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? To combat this, you will need to focus on producing quality content and include event features that encourage participation. Virtual escape rooms.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Use social media for quick updates and fun content. New blog posts. Use social media for quick updates and fun content. Tweets and Instagram stories are best for short-form content, but you can post quick updates anywhere that suits your nonprofit’s audience. to start polls or Q&As. digital fundraisers. ,

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

What kind of content do they respond to? Create a content schedule (weekly or monthly) to post consistently on the social media platform. Think of content that will get your audience to engage with your organization online! Interactive content for higher engagement. Interactive content can make your engagement soar ?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The current schedule is to complete content development by the end of the year, copy-edit and layout in January, and go into final layout and production in February. Please fill out the one-question poll below to share your thoughts on the most effective title. You should be able to hold a book in your hand in March 2010. And thanks!

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The Nerdy NonProfit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2015 study from Formstack polled more than 650,000 people across various industries to determine submission habits. If you have a blog post highlighting the impact recent hurricanes have had on the state where you’re headquartered, publishing it might be most useful on a Monday morning, based on the above research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. Jon Dunn does something similar: “I prefer to really try to key in to what days were successful in terms of content. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content. Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. Think Beyond Presenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs!

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

Polls, Q&As, and live chats. Video content syndication. Keynote speaker session. Breakout sessions. Virtual and hybrid exhibitor booths and trade show halls. Networking with individuals in one-on-one or select virtual rooms. Downloadable materials. Pre-recorded videos. Integrated live-streamed videos. Numerous integrations.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

For the most part, the content is either the same in both formats or very similar. Your event format, agenda, content, and tools, should all work toward your event goal. . Come up with hybrid event gamification ideas for your event content, such as: . There can be exclusive in-person and online elements as well. .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

As an event organizer, you can organize the agenda in a way that allows remote attendees to customize their event experience by enabling them to choose which sessions they wish to attend, creating multiple networking channels, providing gamification , and offering multiple content types. Generate More Qualified Leads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Text Poll App from MobileCause. Here’s a summary of the highlights of the conversation: Before I dive into the content, I had the pleasure of experimenting with a text polling app to find out the composition of the audience and their experience with the panel topic. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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