Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. How can we get people to talk to us? Or just keep your ears open.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

To help boost engagement rates, Amy suggests using rich media like graphics and video, asking questions, and creating content that's just begging to be shared. If that's the case, you have the added advantage of getting to discover the types of content that are most appealing to your audience + testing what gets them to click.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

We ask a lot of questions. Explore identity and feelings : Use proposition testing; A/B test Facebook ads; conduct sentiment analysis. Identify preference for action: Create surveys; analyze behavioral data points; develop personas. What politicians do they support?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

In the comments on my post, &# Likes on Facebook Are Not A Victory: Results Are ,&# Carie Lewis shared her killer deck on PREZI offers some advice for engaging your network after they click the “like&# button. Let me know in the comments. Why I Don’t “Like&# You on Prezi. It was too good not to share.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The knowledge one can gleam from this tool is practically endless–and the resulting testing and site modifications one can make, even more so.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

As you organize your nonprofit virtual fundraising event , you’ll also want to ask yourself questions during planning, execution, and follow-up on whether your schedule is respectful of your participants’ time. Our staff was there to welcome them, do the final tech check, and answer any questions or concerns. How to Measure Success.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For example, the survey data highlights a trend seen across multiple Community Brands studies: Job opportunities are important for acquisition, as well as retention, among those early in their careers. Here are some ideas for gathering and assessing member feedback: Regularly read their comments on social media and your online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The people that we have, we want them to be there because they care about what we have to say and take action – and measure those results with metrics that mean something to us …” Here’s the spreadsheet of small number of nonprofits who took this quick survey reporting number of likes and “People Talking About.”

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Preference and Opinion – this is something that you can survey or poll your donors on, and collecting this information via an online portal is a great idea. E-mail will allow you to try similar segments as you might use for a direct mail program, and allows you to test new segments at a low cost. E-mail Schedules & Strategies.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5. The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Also check out their Usability Testing of nine nonprofits'' online presence. Take this quick survey and be entered in a drawing to win an Amazon.com gift certificate. Here''s an interesting question: Can nonprofits increase voting? Here''s an interesting question: Can nonprofits increase voting? Email eileigh@nten.org.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Including a budget in your marketing plan should help answer this question. You or your marketing agency may conduct interviews with target audience members, share surveys, create audience personas, perform A/B tests, and more. This way, anyone reading the plan will know who to reach out to with questions or concerns.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5. The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

In our first installment, NTEN’s IT Director, Karl Hedstrom, and Operations Director, Jessica Holliday, answer a few questions about what we’re setting out to do, and how, and why. We’ve dug up some good-looking online tools to open up usability testing. Or a question for Jessica and Karl? Share in the comments section below!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

This was the question at the heart of last week''s MuseumCamp. While all the projects are fast, messy, and incomplete, each is like a small test tube of ideas and possibilities for opening up the way we do social impact research. Don''t (always) call it a survey. You can comment on the projects too and share your own ideas.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2013

After surveying many of the programs out there, I found a few that meet these requirements. Piktochart doesn't require a contract or any sign-up fees so your organization can give Piktochart's professional package a whirl for a few months to test it out. Share your experience, thoughts, or questions in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Lots of comments pros and cons. ” Survey your audience 5-6 months about mobile usage (yes it changes that fast!) Sample survey. ” I love these interactive sessions because the questions always give me great ideas for blog posts – so stay tuned. Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Because whether you’re crafting emails or designing web experiences, you will ask yourself the two big questions over and over. Ultimately, a designer only truly knows if their baby is successful by testing it. Quick-and-dirty prototype testing finds the right user experience for your real donors before launch.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2015

Your organization’s value proposition answers the question: “Why should I give to you, rather than some other organization, or not at all?” ” How clearly you are able to answer this question is directly correlated to your fundraising results. Test that too. The Obama campaign does a four-step giving form?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Here’s an example of some survey questions you should ask. They can also help with feedback on training materials and gaps, mentor and coach employees who are brand new to social media with getting started, or answer questions on the intranet or internal communications channels. Share it in the comments.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can even write encouraging comments on these posts while the campaign is running or give social media shoutouts to supporters who are pulling in lots of donations. Here are some ways you keep your supporters engaged during the event: Offer a prize or a registration fee donation match for the team that gets the most questions right.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

NTEN reports in Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report , "Staffing and budgets for nonprofit social network projects -- on commercial social networks -- are real but small, with four-fifths of nonprofit survey respondents committing at least one-quarter of a full-time staff person to these efforts.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. Something about the way Farra presented, answered questions and described the campaigns she worked on stuck with me. They sent out surveys. This gave us a chance to test out the brand messaging with others. Why did we do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Input” usually means getting others to provide information of some kind such as feedback on an initiative or ideas for new campaigns or even to get answers to questions. Look for reviews, ask for references, and put a question out to your community (pseudo-crowdsourcing), just as you might research any other service provider or online tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Dip a toe into the water, test the temperature, and see what you learn about your consumers and your brands. There is a difference between market research (using surveys, focus groups, and interviews to collect data) and listening (using social media tools). they point out that listening is nothing new - it's market research.

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

For a large or high profile meeting, do a test run with 1 or 2 international participants. As the meeting begins, provide some guidance on how participants can ask questions or comment during the meeting. Ask participants to complete a poll or short survey about how useful the meeting was and how it could be improved.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. But the other question that they have to really think through is, well, what can we do? I think that’s a loaded question. Male: Boom.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Each month, during our visitor intercept surveys, we ask a sample of 200 visitors whether they came to see anything in particular, and if so what. Most museums, including us, might answer this question by changing our approach as we create new experiences. The most popular answer among those that say yes is Dinosaurs.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

"Text [3-digit Eval Code] to 69866" were the only directions needed, at which point the system would text back with the first question in the survey and prompt the user to text back their answer. This was followed by each of the evaluation questions (pre-recorded by NTEN's own Holly Ross) and a prompt for their answers.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Consider these comments that I have heard in the last few weeks alone: “Our constituents know that we need money.”. “We But here at nonprofit consulting firm Ashley|Rountree we are encouraging our clients to stay the course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Yet, there are those constant nagging questions. What social media analytics should we pay attention to? And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Why not take a few minutes to answer her survey. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? Good discussion in the comments too. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. What language is this?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

test and teweak. survey in room: most prevalent is 20 hours/week with other job duties. Livingston - if you don’t have their email, call them, keep asking questions but it is labor intensive. Observe and sift through qualitative data like a primatologist or anthropologist. pick the right metrics. harvest insights.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So send in your questions and comments along the way. If you use the Q&A box, it might be a little bit easier, a little higher chance that we get to that question as insider tip for you, but we won’t discriminate. Pretty please with sugar on top, any questions that you have, just pop them in that Q&A box.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

M+R Strategic Services recently tested an online welcome series (welcome, survey, fundraising appeal) against sending a straight fundraising appeal as the first email solicitation. So test, test and retest! The other thing we are going to begin testing this year is an ask for our monthly sustainer program--Partners.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

M+R Strategic Services recently tested an online welcome series (welcome, survey, fundraising appeal) against sending a straight fundraising appeal as the first email solicitation. So test, test and retest! The other thing we are going to begin testing this year is an ask for our monthly sustainer program--Partners.

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