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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

When advocacy campaigns are quiet, consider some other engaging advocacy content that can be written and approved in advance to ensure advocates are still opening and clicking your messages: Flash poll: Create a one-question poll that is irresistible to advocates, such as “Which of the following should be a higher priority?

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Twitter for Nonprofits in 2018: Rebirth or Retire?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter said it made the change because some languages require more characters, but the move is more likely growing the user base by making the service easier for newcomers. Twitter Polls: Twitter Polls , the ability to do a flash survey, have been integrated with Tweets for some time. Here are the best practices.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists? The following is framed with one disclaimer: We’re in the days and this could all change. Short answer: too early to tell.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Don’t change just for novelty’s sake. Key Takeaway #2: Spotlight Your Mission as the ‘Hero’ In the book, Ogilvy realized in a flash of insight that taste was irrelevant for whiskey – it was brand image alone that motivated purchases. Illustrate the concrete change created by donor support. Apply those lessons.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. Measuring Networked Nonprofits: Using Data for Social Change is the topic of the book I’m co-authoring with KD Paine. How to measure behavioral change. Picking the right measurement tool for the job and how to use it.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. I'm so excited!

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09NTC Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

Amy Sample Ward

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. and not somewhere that will change really. Yahoo has a great embed tool that doesn’t require any flash code, etc. Maybe you just target your board members to keep them informed, etc.; Consider your story. newsletter.

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