Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

This will change quickly as you build your communities on social media sites. At the beginning of each of my webinars, I poll my attendees: “Where did you first find out about this webinar?&# Every so often a supporter will testify to your good work via a wall or blog comment. e-Newsletter Subscribers.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Create connections between your site and social profiles. Create connections between your site and social profiles. To encourage further interaction with your content, try these methods: Ask for comments, then reply directly to your followers in the comment section. to start polls or Q&As.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Compared to other social networks, LinkedIn Ads are expensive and the site spends your money fast. Admins can invite up to 1,250 of their connections to attend the event and engage attendees with live chat and polls. Odds are, LinkedIn Analytics will evolve to become some of the most useful data in your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

There are third-party developers who sell apps for business purposes, some offer freebies: Wildfire , Parachure , Involver , Buddy Media , and Tab Site. 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

AUGUST 14, 2015

This can be as simple as a poll or having participants type a reflective question in the chat at the beginning. There is limited air time for everyone to speak, but you can get input from everyone quickly using a chat or polling feature to stimulate and focus the discussion. Tailor the Interaction to the Size of the Group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While it’s impossible to track these donations unless you poll your online donors, the more your nonprofit utilizes social media to build your online brand and your e-newsletter list, the more likely potential online donors are to discover your nonprofit—and your nonprofit’s “Donate Now” landing page. Monitor Your Charity Ratings and Reviews.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

With more than 900 million users, Facebook is the top social media site on the planet. Before you can engage alumni on the world's most popular social media site, you’ve got to build a relationship with them there. Building weight — Comments have a higher value than a like. Our focus was Facebook. On class trips.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2022

Increasingly, we’re seeing conversational options replace search features to help visitors quickly find the correct and most up-to-date resources on sites. They can be playful in nature by starting with a fun quiz or poll while simultaneously creating a genuine connection to help the visitor sift through online content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2014

Some people define oh-so-strictly: remote volunteers who never come on-site at an organization, and all of their service is conducted online. Share your favorite tools - or questions about tools - in the comments below or at the Digital Engagement branch of the TechSoup Community forum ! This time: Yes: 58% No: 42%.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

New and existing donors, volunteers, and others could be frustrated with perhaps their first interaction with your organization, miss out on particular initiatives, or never return to your site. The simple answer is to check your web analytics to see how many people visit your site from a mobile device. Make Updates a Breeze.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Some options include videos, podcasts, interviews, polls, insightful status updates, and more. Promote community interaction by inviting reader feedback through questions, and then be sure to respond to comments. Social networking is a powerful tool for nonprofit organizations, and Facebook is one of the leading sites.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2016

His informal poll helped guide the list, and the comments below the article are worth reading. If your site is running on WordPress, WP Touch is a great free plugin to make your site more mobile-friendly (ChurchTechToday uses this plugin, FYI). Back in April 2013, Thom S. Option 2: Create a Mobile-Friendly Church Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For nonprofits, crowdsourcing work can be a cost-effective way of taking care of repetitive tasks through sites like Crowdflower, Castingwords, and Clickworker. Nonprofits can use answer sites such as Quora.com or Vark.com that use variations of crowdsourcing principles to tap into many people for input. Measuring Input.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time. Bernard leaves hotel 12:30 Training Team works on site from 12-2 Jay Dedman Video Blogging Workshop -2-5. Netsquared Meet up 5:00 PM. Friday, March 21.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2020

S o, we polled our Blackbaud Champions for their best tips on how to manage and stay productive. Add them in the comment section below! . We received an overwhelming response and have included some of their responses below. Also, it helps you feel like you’re accomplishing something, even something small and incremental.

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See3

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

The site and corresponding outreach campaign are designed to educate the American public about why US engagement in the world and the alleviation of global poverty is critical. As we say on the site, it’s the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. Polls consistently show that Americans want the U.S.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

Russ and I both agreed that the main barrier is the catch 22 of social sites: the wiki is not attractive to users if it is not yet rich with useful information -- but this will not happen until people begin using it. Step two is that the wikimaster takes active responsibility for getting the first fifty articles on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Are widgets useless foo foo or can they be used strategically to generate comments/discussion or attract new readers? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. The examples so far: Audience Feedback/Organizational Listening - Message/Comments - as seen on Life Kludger - A survey/Poll as seen on the Bamboo Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. " Lucy Bernholz offers some commentary here and is taking a poll on the topic here. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Create Free Polls. I tried one for audience polls and one for messages. However, 85% of the really small sample of folks (10 people) who took the poll think that widgets could be useful to building community if used strategically. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals or republish your feeds.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Consumption will be invisible if not tracked, so you’ll want to use your analytics software, such as Google Analytics, to measure the following: The amount of time spent on the site and the page. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. Use polls to ask a question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I had the honor of presenting with Laura Whitehead and Amy Sample Ward who were on site. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. ” You can read more about how it works from the Facebook developer notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. We could tell by all the comments and images floating around. to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? to quantify engagement PROCESS / STRATEGY Measuring buzz -link love ???

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

She goes on to cite a poll by Harris Interactive which found "only one in 10 Americans strongly believes charities are honest and ethical in their use of donated funds." Thats a pretty disturbing statistic! We should never allow fear of scandal, dishonesty, or incompetence to dissuade us from trying to help, to give, and to serve.

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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! The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Check the web site for the application and more details. " I agree.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative." Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. They promoted the campaign through social media sites and raised $300k online within two months. They have multiple, creative opporunities to engage through online quizzes, polls and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Peter Campbell, who created the site, has moved the site it's new domain [link] - so stay tuned for more updates. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative." Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. This way, people can comment on or start a discussion about a certain item directly within the document – both asynchronously or in real-time. Give your remote participants a seat at the table.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Despite the more recent shift of attention to Facebook in the past six months by the nonprofit community, there are still remnants of a goldrush by nonprofits over the last year to build a presence on the uber-popular site. How many comments do nonprofits have? The average was 797 comments, while the median was 74.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago. The HSUS winner got over 90,000 views of her video.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

The HSUS winner (we picked) was featured on our website and social networking sites. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. It was also turned into a TV PSA in the winner’s hometown of Chicago. The HSUS winner got over 90,000 views of her video.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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