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Dear Moby, Which is Better? Polls or Surveys for Nonprofits 

Whole Whale

Do you think I should use a poll or a survey?”. One of the most effective ways of gaining feedback to optimize one’s business products and efficiency is by collecting thoughts and comments from the users themselves. By sending surveys and polls via emails, of course. Top Ways to Use Polls + Surveys. How is this done?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn?

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Twitter for Nonprofits in 2018: Rebirth or Retire?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If your nonprofit wants to up its Twitter game in 2018, here is a summary: Tweet Storms and Threads: Twitter announced the launch of a new feature in December help users more easily post Tweetstorms – a series of related tweets posted by a Twitter user in quick succession, in order to share longer thoughts. Here are the best practices.

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Rethink, reuse, and repurpose: How to create more social media content with less work

Candid

Yes, once in a while, we promote Candid nonprofit profiles or an upcoming webinar, but the bulk of our social media content is designed to help you do more good. This will help you understand what your audience may be interested in. We like to transform data or previous content into trivia or an opinion poll.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

As SA’s Volunteer Coordinator, I was fortunate to keep working full-time from home, where I ramped up a new way of volunteering remotely, finding additional volunteers, and training a mixed group of new and longtime volunteers to help host these programs on Zoom. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks.

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Build excitement before you ask: Rethink your year-end giving social media plan

Candid

Social media is an important part of this plan and can help drive donations. Find the posts from the last year that had the most likes and comments. Warm them up with polls or easy open-ended questions, like asking what their favorite program or event of yours was over the last year.

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How to Build a Social Media Following: Top Secrets Revealed

Nonprofits Source

If someone was scrolling through their social media account and came across a post from your nonprofit, would they like, comment, or share it? According to a recent Hootsuite poll, only 20% of nonprofits feel ‘extremely confident’ that they are maximizing their social media potential.