Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

Social networking communities are migrant communities, but that’s another blog post. Number of Comments and Likes per Impression. Comments + Likes)/Impressions. Tags: Facebook. One website may lose its popularity for the next, but I have found that your friends, fans and followers move with you to next one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). On November 24th, I got up at 5:00 AM to skype into the NCVO Information Conference , focused on how organizations can make best use of recent developments in social media to meet the changing needs and expectations of their audiences. tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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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

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). And, of course, nonprofits will want to consider adding a social fundraising app like Causes. Additional Reading About Apps.

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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. Tagging folks in pictures and asking them to tag themselves also increases engagement, puts a face to a name, and humanizes the process by bridging online and on-land worlds.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Do you need a social media strategy for homecoming? Your alumni post on Facebook, addictively scroll through Instagram and celebrate their marriages with custom hashtags; having a social strategy for homecoming helps you find them where they are. Are there alumni who are particularly engaged with your social media accounts already?

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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! NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2009

I’ve combined some of my favorite RSS feeds from the NPTech community, Social Entrepreneurship sector, and Philanthropy news. Just leave a comment with your recommendations and I’ll add it! Tags: community resources networking blogs Blogroll rss. Visit my Alltop page here! Why am I using Alltop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Before I even set up this quick flash poll , I received an email from a colleague who had already compared and benchmarked their page with peer organizations using ”PATP” – dividing the total People Talking About number by the total of Facebook likes. Checking in at a place.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

jaygoldman @ kanter Rewarding verified offline actions with online social credit. 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. I suggest a tweetup.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). Free2choose is powerful because it introduces social tension.

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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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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Joe runs through some great responses from a whole bevy of social-media-for-change folks, including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

This conversation came about after Seth's provoking post " The Problem with Non " took a swing at nonprofits for lack of adoption of social media, saying it was all due to fear. This caused an angry uproar on nonprofit blogs and Twitter from nonprofits saying there were plenty examples of nonprofits using social media effectively!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

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. I’ve thrown out some ideas below—feel free to add others in the comments. Please share in the comments. Retweet others. Learn more or sign up”. How To Retweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. In terms of feedback, this is much more subjective, and there is a fuzzy line between surveying, polling and questioning a lot of people or your constituents and actual crowdsourcing for input. Is different better?

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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. He can poll users frequently to get them to send him any material that would be apporpriate for inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Tags: backchannel.

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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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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. Share them on your website, social media platforms, and email newsletters.

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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. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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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. In some cases, you may also need to have people in the room wear name tags. There are also options as discussed in this video. 8: Hybrid Meeting: Specific Facilitation Tips.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. So emails, social media, your website. It will come up in their feed either on Instagram, or Facebook, or even on LinkedIn, and then they will start to comment, or like, or share, or do some of that engagement. Here we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? I'm too shy to do an online poll.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2019

Social media has come a long way in an unbelievably short amount of time, partly because our favorite apps are constantly experimenting with new features that keep us on our toes. Staying up to date on all these new social media features can be overwhelming. Hashtags (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter). First, be specific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. The relative value has changed because of social media. Social network platforms are an example.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Maybe a comment card or book. Being a critic requires less personal creative drive than creating other social content because you are responding to, not initiating, content. You can check out Forrester's social profile tool for a rough sense of your visitors' predilections.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Then, we’ll look at various ways to market your podcast via your own website, the social web, and the iTunes Music Store. Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. Consider your story.

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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? Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. One of the most used widgets by nonprofits are the audience poll widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

First, some back story: Ashoka was founded on the belief that social entrepreneurs are the most powerful force changing the world. After 30 years of electing over 2,200 incredible social entrepreneurs as Fellows we have been able to observe some powerful themes in their work.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

It may be a marketing and communications team; it may include an Executive Director’s personal blog; it may be rotating news from program staff; it may be volunteer commentators from the board, key activists, and allies. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. 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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