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Watching Our Vote Live on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am in Brasil to keynote the Social Good Brasil Conference (had to vote early), but I can still watch democracy unfold in real-time through my friends updates on Twitter, Facebook, and other social channels. I love seeing these photos of polling places where my friends are voting. Faster, more accurate response.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media.

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How to Drive Virtual Event Engagement with Gamification

AccelEvents

Encourage people to use your specific event hashtag or perform other tasks like submitting questions for speakers and interacting with your social media channels. Trivia and puzzles: People love to demonstrate their knowledge and problem-solving skills. Encourage people to take the polls by rewarding points for each one taken.

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Technology, data and fundraising: is it getting too complicated?

3rd Sector Labs

We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome. Based on informal discussions with webinar attendees, the problem seems clear. Note Q2 in the poll. Step one is to recognize the problem. If not, why not?

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How to Drive Virtual Event Engagement with Gamification

AccelEvents

Encourage people to use your specific event hashtag or perform other tasks like submitting questions for speakers, and interaction with your social media channels. Trivia and puzzles: People love to demonstrate their knowledge and problem-solving skills. Encourage people to take the polls by rewarding points for each one taken.

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Using Social Media to Engage and Recruit Volunteers

Volunteer Hub

Did you know that 47% of nonprofit leaders say recruiting sufficient volunteers is a big problem for their organization? Repurposing your content is a great way to create “new” engaging assets that you can share on your social media channels to reach volunteer prospects, while saving time.

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Julia Campbell’s Secret Sauce: Expert Social Media Tips for Nonprofits

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She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. So, if someone was looking to put together a monthly calendar for their social media channels, what are the types of posts they should look to include in that plan?