Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. What about a certain post created that big conversation. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. Yes or No?&# Of the 43 people who took the poll, 89% said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

A short list of recommended apps for marketing Facebook Pages: YouTube Video app : If you have an active Nonprofit YouTube Channel, you might want to share those videos on your Facebook page automatically by creating tab for your channel. The best app is from Involver. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2019

By changing how you approach your social media presence, you can create ways to ramp up your social media engagement. With Facebook and Instagram, posting more than one or two times daily creates depreciating engagement for each post. If people have questions or comments, respond and make them feel personally recognized.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

Alltop, the “online magazine rack” of popular topics, has just released the option for users to create their own Alltops! I’m really excited about the personal pages on Alltop - so much so that I created mine and want to share it with you! Just leave a comment with your recommendations and I’ll add it!

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

That said, simply creating a Facebook page isn't enough. 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.

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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. But, since social media is never effortless, it takes a lot of prep work and thought to create something that complements a big event. Feature Online-Only Content.

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MAY 7, 2009

As the meeting begins, provide some guidance on how participants can ask questions or comment during the meeting. using the chat window, responding to a poll, writing names on a whiteboard, and of course speaking via a teleconference or VOIP. Tags: Collaboration. Some ways for users to participate are: raising their ?hands?,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Create something to attend! Promote cross-platform: FB, LI, Twitter, email>blog>online poll/petition >offline events. joewaters @ kanter Re: @ mary_joyce comments. Please leave a comment. Tags: network effectiveness. easibey @ kanter actions that r easy/doable. Karma points for being good.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

But before you can climb these steps you need to design them - adoption will not necessarily spread naturally or completely unless the organization creates a plan and monitors it. He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion. Tags: nptech socialmedia training.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Strive to create a helpful balance between information about your organization and content that has value for your audience. Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies. Please share in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. With the pandemic, many of us ported our real-time meetings to Zoom – and this created the conditions for virtual exhaustion and overload. This creates a constant visual reminder to include them in the conversation. Center Inclusion.

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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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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Use bit.ly to create short urls, because it supports source code tracking. For example, acquire fans via Facebook advertising and then present them with FB posts that link them into an action incorporating an email opt-in, intentionally creating the opportunity for FB fans to get on your organization’s email list. .

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. So we’ve created a way for people to get a sense of what their work is, and we call them the rebuilding lives experiences. . And let me go back to it for just real quick for you while Steven is bringing the poll up.

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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

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? tools for development, because everyone can now use the web as a space to express themselves, interact and co-create. I'm too shy to do an online poll. are they relevant to the people you work with in developing countries? Technology.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

They do it because it creates a credible, self-reinforcing engine of information about their products. Fred created the Net Promoter Score, a metric related to the number of people who answer affirmatively to the question: "How likely are you to recommend X to a friend or colleague?" Maybe a comment card or book.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I knew this change was coming and I had read that Status Updates that receive a lot of comments and thumbs up would at the very least show up in the News Feed > Most Recent, but that’s just not happening. On that day I polled fans asking if they read Updates anymore, and the overwhelming response was no.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2019

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. You can also create fun tags that tie back to your brand without directly mentioning it. You can create your own or subscribe to others’, all without having to actually follow anyone.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. Create a strategy and production plan, a schedule for the topics, etc. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. the only difference is that there is an enclosure tag that points to the file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets. Polls are a great way to get reader feedback too. I used the Vidzu poll to get feedback on a blog post here. Group 1: Interactivity.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

With a modern CMS, however, you can create the basic framework of the site independently of the visual design and then layer that in later as part of “theming” the site. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites. For some projects, that may still make sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

For almost 30 years Ashoka has been seeking out and supporting the best innovators working to create systemic change to join the Ashoka Fellowship. This led to our new tagline and mission, creating an Everyone a Changemaker™ world. Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. So, while I may not see my colleagues face-to-face more than once a year, Twitter helped strengthen ties and created a sense of ambient intimacy. Poll your members where are they? Tags: 09ntc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

" Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group.

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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. Julia: Yes. Things are opening up.

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