Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Check out this blog article on effective fundraising communications tips you can use as you talk with your supporters. Sharing conversation starters, polls, or even quizzes on social media can inspire lots of engagement. But the more personable you are, the more effective your message will be. Encouraging conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Through my blog I see what???s

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. The required paper signage identifying polling places must only be posted by the entrance of each location, which means they are often located on side streets out-of-view for anyone on the sidewalks.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Of 1,400 SMB owners polled, more than half (52 percent) said they were donating to charity or had already done so 4. In another poll, 90 percent of SMBs and SBOs planned to give to local organizations 5. appeared first on Givinga Blog. These SMBs clearly understand the benefits of corporate philanthropy.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

To make sure school supplies aren’t out of reach for any student, they created the Free Teacher Market to help “Erase the Need” for local students. You can learn more about deciding your staff assignments on the blog! The post Fundraising for Education: Your Guide to Doing Virtual Fundraising Right appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These are some essential sources for information: social networks, blogs, interviews, surveys, polls, and in-depth interviews. How will you engage your local communities and supporters? We might have even anticipated their needs and given them something they didn’t even know they wanted, but liked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Since the morning keynote was a session on nonprofit leadership by two of the co-authors of Working Across Generations , Frances Kunreuther and Helen Kim , while they were lined up, I did a quick poll by generation. He shared some points about their internal use of social media - blogs - as a strategy to get people comfortable.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2012

These will also have lasting impact and receive state and local media and blog coverage. Whether it is a polling site locator, candidate guide or any other type of resource that is good to reference on election day, do your best to make it mobile friendly. Make it mobile and social. Make the most of your resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. Identify leaders/super-activists and empower them to host local events. EMcD @ kanter At @ carepages we enabled members to share their stories offline (local media, support groups, religious organizations) MandyGRS @ kanter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. A dedicated blog post about the sponsorship.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. Benefits and Considerations.

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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! GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. " Lucy Bernholz offers some commentary here and is taking a poll on the topic here. Change the World!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

Joining my neighborhood fitness club, eating healthier and getting more involved in local activities are all great resolutions to make my life better in the New Year. We resolve to help you keep your resolutions, but we need to hear more from you before we can help so take the poll and drop us a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Joe Waters writes the web’s leading cause marketing blog. Co-Disruptor: Pear. Visit him at Selfishgiving.com.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But the initial result on the Internet was a flurry of tweets, wall posts, blog posts, and other rightfully indignant responses that didn't add up to much real change. The movement notably used grassroots tactics to drive voters (and previous non-voters) to the polls in support of Obama. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

” [Did you notice the title of this blog post, by the way? Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. Especially in blog and social network contexts, it fits in well with #2 and #3: get your communitys feedback on which they like better, A or B, and why. 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. I said yes. James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully. Note to self, look for a 2-3 minute video about one of the steps) The poll feature was great way to engage people and I wish I had thought though some more of those to incorporate along the way. I had too much content.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 28, 2022

Here are some tips for making your next virtual or hybrid event more enjoyable and engaging: Mail each attendee a “Swag Bag” Launch interactive polls. Even though English is the most commonly utilized language for events, it is ideal for guests to understand the material in their local language. Language translation.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The webinar began with a poll that showed more than half of attendees are holding hybrid events —a combination of an in-person auction with an online auction. What’s local? The post How to host a Superb Silent Auction appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. 3 6% of attendees said they are holding an in-person auction only.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can read her awesome advice in many leading industry publications and blogs, as well as her own website. I’m going to be kicking things off in a couple minutes with some awesome polls to get to know you better. And I’m going to start off by doing some polls, and I’m going to launch this poll right now.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

So let me start right away with a poll here. So I’m just going to launch our first poll here. I have a couple of polls today. I’m going to end the polls and see what it looks like. So I’m going to do another poll here. I like this polling thing. Is it, like, less than 5,000 bucks?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And Steven, I forgot to check in with you about the poll. But are you able to launch the poll at this point? You want to close the poll? . I have a white paper that I, if you subscribe to my newsletter, or also on my blog, I describe the process of creating values. Steven: Yes, here we go. Dr. Ross: Okay, awesome. .

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

We had also blogged earlier on the topic vis-a-vis the changing fundraising paradigm we are experiencing across the third sector. We opened the event with a short audience poll about fundraising technology. If you have questions about your nonprofit systems, databases, CRM or data needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 25, 2020

Humane Society also shares tips and information on how to better take care of our animal friends, for example, signs of heatstroke in dogs and cats and how to help local shelters. Our blog is also full of information on how to make the most out of social media and get your nonprofit noticed. on their own Instagram story.). Why Twenti?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. Andy Carvin and others just launched a new "tweme" that will track local voting irregularities. Tools you can Use. Fact Checking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

For example, Mother Jones ’ investigative story on Kentucky’s drastic reduction of polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods was shared widely on Facebook (320,000+ shares). Stories that honed in on a state’s efforts to block our freedom to vote had people paying attention, driving up engagement on social channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Social Warfare is a WordPress plugin that adds visually compelling social share buttons to your website or blog. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users understand the premise of HTML and can make simple edits to WordPress or MailChimp generated HTML code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. You can also see if there is a local charity that you bring items to in your own world travels. advice and writes a great blog too. Stephen Downes says the death of blogging is greatly exaggerated.

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