Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

I knew some of the participants on the thread, well-known bloggers, authors, librarians, educators, and thinkers. This conversation thread was rich, witty, and thoughtful. The site is also becoming popular with technology insiders in Silicon Valley. Take for example this thread about launching a start up at SXSW.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. If your communities are engaged, then a few people will respond and give. It’s true that Web 2.0 If you rarely receive comments, thumbs ups, or retweets, then no doubt all those funding pleas begin to look desperate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission. 20 plus hours a week).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

"Understand that a movement means that people gotta do something. When TV personality Glenn Beck proclaimed in 2009 on the "Fox & Friends" morning show that President Obama was a racist with a "deep-seated hatred for white people," many people were understandably up-in-arms. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. The huge number of people on Facebook is no surprise, considering there are 750+ million active users , and with only (if it can be called that) 90 million pages and groups, meaning it is a seller's market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Or maybe some people subscribe and then if they discover that the blog sucks, they unsubscribe. A while back, I was obsessing about this and read through this report: Pew Internet and American Life Project Report titled "Bloggers: The Internet's Storytellers" from July, 2006. A pdf version can be found here. )

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. but we don’t want that to happen to people in the nonprofit community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

s now a felony in all 50 states But this case brought dogfighting into the spotlight and raised awareness to people that may have never heard of it before. Since this brought dogfighting into the spotlight and put it on the minds of many Americans, we figured it was a good time to reach out to people. trackable Raise awareness ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. 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. Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

young people???, young people??? Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! " I agree.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution One: "I resolve to empower our supporters to tell our story, reach new people and raise funds." 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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. you may need to develop multiple versions of your app to reach as many people as possible. And Chrissy Faessen of Rock the Vote shared that they found attendance at the polls on election day increases 3 to 4 percent when their constituents receive a text message the day before, reminding them to vote.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

She goes on to cite a poll by Harris Interactive which found "only one in 10 Americans strongly believes charities are honest and ethical in their use of donated funds." " I guess the important thing is for us to help people realize that there is a responsibility attached to our philanthropy. Thats a pretty disturbing statistic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

are they relevant to the people you work with in developing countries? In Ghana people are interested in knowing about new tools, because they need to stay in touch with what???s s does not always match the way people communicate. I'm too shy to do an online poll. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0 and that???s

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution One: "I resolve to empower our supporters to tell our story, reach new people and raise funds." 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

Create Free Polls. If you haven't had a chance to take the poll, please click through your reader and vote now! The poll is being used to gather feedback from audience about how they read the blog (RSS vs Browser) and frequency. A blogger can gain a sense of audience composition through ???on-blog??? s URL or IP address.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

That said, people love Facebook. I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused.

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Socialbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

If you want to track how many people are clicking on your links, use a site like bit.ly. 2 “Before people start reading your Tweets and decide to follow you, they’re going to take a look at your profile to see if they want more of what you have to offer,” advises Sarah Turner, a social media marketer at Writinity.com and Researchpapersuk.com.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The manager can draw in people within the organization to create useful content. Some aspects of content creation could be outsourced to experts and guest bloggers. Video is more popular than ever because people—especially young people—would rather watch a video than read a blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Building an Everyone a Changemaker™ world is a very different mission from simply looking for the world’s elite social entrepreneurs, it involves using the stories and examples of these entrepreneurs to inspire people to action, sharing lessons learned across our networks and opening up the innovation process to more people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

We the People :: petitions.whitehouse.gov. We the People is an online petitioning service launched by the Obama Administration that enables U.S. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. 501(c)(3) organizations can register people and try to convince them to vote.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, we'll be here a little bit for the reception, so you can also come and talk to people one-on-one. And really, when I started, I thought that blogs were for kind of strange people in their basements who were typing about conspiracy theories and stuff like that. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. We were in the middle of a recession, Governor Patrick was at a historic low in the polls, and Senator Scott Brown had just been elected in a huge upset, energizing the Republican party and deflating Democrats. The following post is by Joshua Gee. heart liberal and a son of the American Revolution.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. What a great tool for young people (and adults!) who learn my listening.

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