Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

I do occasionally give thumbs up, and sometimes I’ll even comment. And when I poll my webinar attendees about where they first heard about the webinar… the results are always the same: 1) Referral from friend 2) My Blog 3) My e-mail newsletter 4) Twitter 5) Other 6) Facebook. Thumbs up and comments are difficult to inspire.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Facebook is a “picture economy” (whereas Twitter is a “link economy” ); pics are the most engaged content, the most in-demand. Questions and polling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

That’s been useful to at least test content and engagement formats. Checking in at a place. The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. There’s a lot of confusion.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Based on research done by Buddymedia and official comments from Facebook, we know that what you post on your page only lasts for about three hours and shows up to a skimpy 17 percent of your audience. Building weight — Comments have a higher value than a like. Focus on User-Generated Content. Not encouraging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. " I agree. Are there others?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Then afterward, they can relive the good times, post new pics, un-tag themselves from the dance party candid pics, and hopefully make plans to attend again next year. Feature Online-Only Content. Collect Content for Later. Homecoming content can be used long after the event. After: Follow Up.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. In other cases, it may confuse reviewers to see the content without the design.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate. The show content was compelling, but the voting was what really energized people.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

But they were curious about what kind of content they should tweet, and how to strike the right balance between carrying on conversation and self-promotion. Strive to create a helpful balance between information about your organization and content that has value for your audience. Please share in the comments. Retweet others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Do you have strategies for encouraging those conversations and linking them to your content? Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals. Group 2: Content.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. With a podcast you can edit the content, take out the “ums&# and “ahs&# and craft a great story. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. really great content. Consider your story.

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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. joewaters @ kanter Re: @ mary_joyce comments. That way you can meet the activist "where they're at" willcoley @ kanter I'm interested in how orgs can use offline content dev among their constituents. Please leave a comment.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

One of my long-standing contentions is that an enormous amount of organizational knowledge exists in emails between stakeholders. He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion. Tags: nptech socialmedia training. This barrier can be reduced by "priming the pump."

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

If it’s just content, then link directly to the content. Incorporate Social Supporters and Social Content : Go out of your way to use FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn APIs to incorporate social media posts and fans alongside your traditional site content. Turn on commenting to stimulate group dialog around your posts. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. Tags: backchannel. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

So, if you are already using one of those services and want to integrate content onto your blog, check on their web site first. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. I did, however, find another excellent comment line at Emergency Trap Blog (he left a comment in one of the posts).

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are some post-gala strategies to spark engagement : Relive the Memories, Fuel Excitement: Photo & Video Power Unleash the Photo Power: Tag, Share, & Contest Your Way to Engagement Capture the night’s essence through captivating photos and videos. Leave them in a comment below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

This way, people can comment on or start a discussion about a certain item directly within the document – both asynchronously or in real-time. They should be able to see the faces of in-person attendees, shared presentations, physical documents handed out, content created during the meeting on whiteboards or flipcharts, etc.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe get interrupted or you just want to review the awesome content you’re about to hear, don’t worry. I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. There’s the poll if you want to go ahead and answer the questions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Maybe a comment card or book. There are experts in every industry, from books to film to art, and they have an important voice in the selection and presentation of content. critics"--people interested in judging content. You may be better off energizing those who have formed their own communities around your content.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2019

It originated on Twitter in 2006 and has since expanded to Instagram, Facebook and beyond to make content more discoverable. You can tag generic words like “#nonprofit” or “#fundraising,” but they’ll likely end up lost in a vast sea of other posts with the same hashtag. But how do hashtags work, and how often should you use them?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So send in your questions and comments along the way. 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. Take my poll, fundraising friends.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. But The Harris Poll that was conducted between late March and early May found that between 46% and 51% of U.S. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content.

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