Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Twitter Doubles Character Count: Twitter officially doubled the character count for all users last November, 2017 after testing it. If your nonprofit has an example, please share in the comments.). Twitter Polls: Twitter Polls , the ability to do a flash survey, have been integrated with Tweets for some time.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Consider anonymizing the comments before you share them to minimize any unintended bias. You can ask your grantees for feedback through surveys, interviews, focus groups, or informal conversations. You can suggest small steps and test them with your grantees and your colleagues.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

You can start testing your outreach plans. . Test run Facebook fundraising for other campaigns and create a dossier of fundraising best practices for your volunteer fundraisers. Since you’re getting a head start on your campaign planning, you’ll also have sufficient time to crowd-test your fundraising messaging.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Since only about 10% of your followers will get exposed to any given post, you're banking on their amplification of that post (shares, likes, comments) to reach others outside of your fan base. Depending on the mission of your organization, you may be tasked with increasing visitor traffic to your organization's website.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

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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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Perhaps you can offer ways for online attendees to ask questions and provide comments. Review and test your technology platform. Surveys – Ask for feedback during and after each session, just as you would at in-person sessions. For example, how can you make the online learning experience interactive? Get feedback.

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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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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. Measure, Test, Refine. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Or just keep your ears open.

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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. (A 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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JULY 14, 2021

Feedback: Many virtual conference platforms offer features that allow for sending participants surveys both after specific sessions, as well as about the event as a whole. Alexa’s team reviews post-session and post-event feedback surveys from attendees to get direct insight into the attendees’ personal experiences.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

According to Baez, there have been some small surveys conducted, but those mostly focused on youth populations. According to Baez, the CTA created their own survey based on information from their HMIS database and their own research in the Santa Clara community. " scoffed one anonymous commenter. What CTA Uncovered.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

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. They had several participants who said "I wouldn''t do a survey, but I like doing this." The teams delivered. Taking photos.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. In response, Katya Andresen, COO at Network for Good, commented, “Taglines are a great test of your strategy. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2012

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Food and Water Watch has put together a survey to test your knowledge. Oh, and let’s not forget using GIS technology to better connect localities with programs and services. Check it all out! Have more news to share?

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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. Let us know in the comments. In other research, findings emphasized that Community Managers are important! Help out with a study! Anything we missed?

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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. Also, it gave me an opportunity to test a recipe for facilitating these types of sessions – more about that to come in a trainer’s note book post. Ultimately, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2019

In the survey, they found most nonprofits plan to focus on social media & advertising, fundraising and email marketing to build out their marketing strategy over the next three to five years. Let me know in the comments. Level of advocacy and device preferences when engaging with the organization are less commonly known. .

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Then we’re also in the process of diving into the actual hard data available to us through Google Analytics and a full content audit; we will supplement this further with targeted interviews and surveys for the community to help weigh in on various parts of the project. We’ve dug up some good-looking online tools to open up usability testing.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We’ve done a deep scan of the literature on personal habit change, like Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before and BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits and have tested their approaches on ourselves. Share your story in the comments or fill out our survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

She looks at survey results, independent web research, verification of new features and analysis of how the 19 applications relate to one another and the marketplace. You can download a copy or read it online here. In the report she compares 19 applications based on different criteria into a succinct consumer reports like analysis.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

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. Now, it’s easier than ever to test your designs because some pretty spectacular online tools have come to our rescue. You knew that.

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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.

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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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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2015

We’ve surveyed CEOs who answer this question less effectively than their secretaries. Question every “best practice” through testing and optimization. “To Test that too. When your boss forwards you an article with some wild fundraising strategy, test it and let data be your diplomat.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

You can have these conversations through an online survey or through individual conversations with your constituents. Once you’ve made some research-backed decisions about your new website, you should test it out. We’ve had great success testing out wireframes before the design has even begun.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

Here’s an example of some survey questions you should ask. Review, Reflect, and Replicate: Once you have piloted the champions program in one department, review what you’ve done, reflect on how to improve, and test in another area. Share it in the comments. Did it help move the needle? Resources.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Please share your own in the comments section. allowing users to add documents, comments, blog or discussion posts, etc.) Finally, help users feel a sense of ownership over the site by asking for their feedback through satisfaction surveys, interviews, feedback forms, and usability testing. Conduct a Pilot Launch.

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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. No matter what we do, I know this: we will test and test and test before we install anything in the diorama halls, lest anyone complain that we changed them.

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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. Test your donation form in advance. Make sure you test it in advance and troubleshoot any issues. Encourage social sharing.

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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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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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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. Either leave a comment here or you can send an email to karl@nten.org.

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